What kind of anemone?

[ddrreevviill]

Not sure what it is. Told me it was a Pink Tip

[Cesar]

I cant tell but it doesn't even look like an anemone. You have a better shot of it?

[winniebagel]

Looks more like a toadstool leather instead of an anemone. Is there any way to get a less-blurry picture?

[ddrreevviill]

Sorry thats the best that I have for now.

 

It's a close ended tube about 3" long 1/2" across. The base was a yellow color and the rest a white color. It was covered with little divets. The divets can be extended out into little nubs that have little polyp looking things at the ends.

[Cesar]

That's the reason I dont think it's an anemone. I have not seen an anemone with tips like that.

[ddrreevviill]

Heres a better picture of it.

 

 

Could it be some type of coral?

[FAC_WNY]

That looks like an Alveopora or Goniopora to me (try and count the number of tentacles on each polyp).

 

Cheers,

Fred

[pdhenderson]

I gotta agree with winnie it looks like a toadstool, try going to liveaquaria.com for ID.

[Tempest]

If it retracts the polyps at night and has a hard base/skeleton then it may be a goniopora or alevopora. If it is long, tubular, soft and mobile then it may be a sea-pen. If it has a soft central stalk from which all of the polyps extend then I would guess some form of leather.

 

However, it is definitely NOT an anenome.

[bobioden]

I agree with the others, that is definatly not an anemone.

 

Who told you it was a pink tip?

 

Bob

[nano-nater]

its a sea pen im 99% sure it is.

 

 

search for sea pen in google.

[FragMaster]

Toadstool

[rissaroo]

I have the same thing in my tank, it is a long tenacle toadstool. Mine is the same color but a little smaller. They are very cool looking when they get some size to them. Good luck with this one!

[Six]

Looks like a sea pen to me too. check google images for some pics to see if they look like what you have.

 

They actually need a DSB to dig into and are not common animals to keep. Not very well suited for an aquarium from what ive read.

 

GL

[FragMaster]

not a seapen.

[Caesar777]

Heh.. Looks like a sea pen to me. Is it sort of a phallic shape, with a "root" that doesn't have tentacles, nor is attached to anything? Should be in the sand (will bury that "foot" and stand upright), not among the rocks. They eat dissolved matter in the water and are short-lived in aquaria. Nice, though.

 

Definitely NOT an anemone, Goniopora, Alveopora, etc.. I'd say toadstool if it's not attached to anything at the base.

[FragMaster]

"I'd say toadstool if it's not attached to anything at the base."

??

They grow from the base up attached to the rock.

This is a seap Pen. http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/groundfish/HAPC/S...ns_synopsis.htm

 

Defenition:

long, slender colonial organism of the same phylum as the jellyfish. Sea pen colonies are formed by several genera of the order Pennatulacea. The colony consists of a stalk formed by an organism called a primary polyp (see polyp and medusa ) and short branches formed by secondary polyps. The stalk, embedded in sand or mud, holds the colony upright. Sea pens differ from the closely related sea pansies and sea feathers by the form of the colony. Sea pens are marine organisms; they are found on Atlantic and Pacific coasts in shallow to moderately deep water. Some reach a length of 2 ft (61 cm) or more. They belong in the phylum Cnidaria , class Anthozoa, order Pennatulacea.

Another sea Pen

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/o...sl_seapen_m.jpg

and another

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/seapen.jpg

one more

http://www.arkive.org/media/4DB9032A-CE2A-...ium/picture.jpg

I think you may be confusing tounge coral for a sea pen?

Seapens are colonial animals as well so you would see more than one.

THey are also fat and round, but they look like this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1.../10/Sea_pen.jpg

if I had a better pic I might change my mind, but that ones out of focus and too far away. We actualy need to see it from the top down.

[Caesar777]

You're looking at one species of sea pen--did you know there are several, all of which vary greatly? There is another that looks exactly like this guy's--I've had one of my own.

 

"Not attached"--I meant on the seapen, not the toadstool. Give us a break, eh?

[Caesar777]

Here. They don't have a full pic, but read the description.

 

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_di....cfm?pcatid=611

[Caesar777]

"Sea Pen

(Cavernularia obesa)

 

 

"The first polyp of the Sea Pen is modified into a basal stalk and "foot" that functions similar to an anemone's stalk. It will bury this foot into the sand and anchor itself to the substrate. Another unique characteristic is its ability to inflate its body to over three times its smaller size. This inflation exposes its feathery group of feeding polyps. It has an orange to tan base with a gray to tan body and resembles a colony of star polyps while it is inflated."

[Caesar777]

From http://www.zanclus.it/pagine/az_cavernularia.php ...

 

"La Cavernularia obesa di Alberto Zucca" (an article called "The C. obesa" by A. Zucca--in case that isn't self-explanatory, lol!)

 

And here's a pic:

 

[Caesar777]

Here's an article about the fellas, from Advanced Aquarist, Spanish--didn't know AA had its stuff translated. Pretty cool. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/spanish/oc...2003/invert.htm

[FragMaster]

Actual;y there are SEVERAL species of seapens in that post I made.

BUT this is the first tim eI have ever seen these refferd to as seapens? Usualy they are called sand polyps.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/oct...2003/invert.htm

 

I think you may be right about it being a sea pen.

Especialy after the last pic you posted.