Found Anemone

ryan115

ryan115

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Looking through my tank the other day i discover a little hitch hiker. I have had this tank for over a year and never noticed him. It is an anemone thats about the size of a nickle maybe a quarter. My question is how is he living in there. My understanding is that they need some intense light and all i have on my tank is a 18w flourescent and a 65 watt 50/50 PC. Also he is down at the very bottom almost underneath a rock in the shade so how is it that he is living when other anemones cant?
 
moray345

moray345

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probably aiptasia pest anemone is it brown?????if so get it out or kill it with joes juice or a kalk mix:yes:
 
ryan115

ryan115

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I did a search for aiptasia it doesnt really look like any of the other pics i saw. i read one post where Squid was talking about counting the tentacles and if it has 8 its aip. This one has alot of tenticles. If it is aip i might try a pepermint shrimp, will they get along all right with my camel?
 
ryan115

ryan115

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I wish i could post a pic but i dont have a camera. i might be able to borrow one so i will see what i can do. It doesnt look like that it is more transparent on the tentacles and the very end has a small white ball tip
 
ninjamini

ninjamini

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Does it look like this pictures #20, 21 and 22:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...il-AlbumInvite
Well I have them on a new really cool peice of live rock that I got. There are prob 8-9 of them. They do like to moce around a but. I dont know what they are but I moved the rock to a new QT. So it looks like a new tank is going to cycle with this rock. We can see what comes of it. I will probebly kill them off.
 
ryan115

ryan115

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it doesnt really look like that the tenticles look like aiptasia in length and form but it has a bubble tip look on the end
 
ryan115

ryan115

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i just found another one on the same rock. but in order to get a good look at either i would have to undo my aqua scape because this rock is on the bottom. If it were aiptasia wouldnt it have spread more by now. I have had this tank for a year since i bought it from my uncle who had it for a year and a half
 
jobob

jobob

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i would put my money on aip. i had one and injected it with calcium and it rolled up and died so i picked it up and let my overflow take it. about a month later i look in my overflow box(the outside box) and their was a aip. it was white i just cause their isnt any light back there. im guessing thats what u got. it looks like what ur discribing.
 
ryan115

ryan115

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thats what im beginning to think it is. I think im going to get a peppermint. I just hope he is all right with everything else in my tank, also i am thinking about getting a small snowflake eel. Would it eat the shrimp???:notsure:
 
jobob

jobob

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i never had an eel i would say more than likely, i would go with calcium and remove from tank. takes like 2 sec to inject . or even squit some next to or in it. problem gone. if ur goin to go with shrimp, ur goin to have a get a pretty big one to eat it. since its been growin for a year.
 
ryan115

ryan115

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i just found a little more but they are all still real small i dont think it would be any match for a shrimp being that it is just on one rock.
 
viper_930

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Originally posted by Ryan115
it doesnt really look like that the tenticles look like aiptasia in length and form but it has a bubble tip look on the end
Majano anemones
 
melissa1

melissa1

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:help:
i have a few of these aiptasia things our new tank. there is 3 on one rock that hav polyps on it if i try to kill the aip will it harm my polyps??
I read a few of the ways to get rid of these things and i am not comfortable adding anything acidic in my tank (i.e. lemon juice/vinegar, etc)
HELP!!!!!!
 
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