Good of bad hitchhiker coral?

[jcovercash]

Set my mom up a tank for M-day. Got about 20 lbs of liverock from my LFS to get it started up. After everything settled I noticed some aipitasias, working on getting rid of them.
This little guy showed up however. It seems to stay exposed during day and night , gets blown around pretty good by the K2 but doesn't seem to effect it. I kinda like it and thing it would look good if it would populate a little, but I want to make sure I don't need to zap it with the others though.
Thanks,
Josh

 

[flower]

Originally Posted by jcovercash
http:///forum/post/3032382
Set my mom up a tank for M-day. Got about 20 lbs of liverock from my LFS to get it started up. After everything settled I noticed some aipitasias, working on getting rid of them.
This little guy showed up however. It seems to stay exposed during day and night , gets blown around pretty good by the K2 but doesn't seem to effect it. I kinda like it and thing it would look good if it would populate a little, but I want to make sure I don't need to zap it with the others though.
Thanks,
Josh
It looks like aptasia to me. Why do you think it is different than the others? Maybe a closer photo shot will help to see if it is different.

 

[bang guy]

Looks like a Clove polyp to me but I agree that a clearer pic is required.

 

[spanko]

Yeah agree with a better closer picture. Could be an encrusting gorgonian, anthelia, xenia. Hard to tell from this pic.

 

[renogaw]

looks like anthelia to me.

 

[t316]

Originally Posted by renogaw
http:///forum/post/3032420
looks like anthelia to me.
That's exactly what it looks like...

If so, it can multiply like crazy. I have been scraping some of mine back just to keep it under control. Very pretty though.

 

[spanko]

Thought I would share a picture here. This coral is at the base of a fairly large what I believe is a Pterogorgia sp.
Here is the Pterogorgia

here is the coral at the base.

I only share this because I was fairly sure at first the coral at the base was Anthelia sp. but now the longer I have it I am not sure. It is not spreading, it is not growing taller like I would expect the Anthelia sp. to. I am now considering whether or not it is actually an encrusting type of gorg maybe Erythropodium caribaeorum , here is a net picture of that.

Just some additional ideas.

 

[t316]

spanko, that middle pic looks like anthalia to me. That's exactly what mine looks like, and it keeps producing offspring, spreading up, down, sideways. That last pic looks like something different to me.

 

[spanko]

Originally Posted by T316
http:///forum/post/3032492
spanko, that middle pic looks like anthalia to me. That's exactly what mine looks like, and it keeps producing offspring, spreading up, down, sideways. That last pic looks like something different to me.
Yeah I was with you too. I really though Anthelia sp. at first and expected to have to battle it proliferating all over the place. But in a bout a year it hasn't. It has gotten more polyps, the polyps have gotten longer but it has stayed on the rock the Pterogorgia sp. is attached to. I really think the second and last picture look to be the same thing to me.
Is what you have growing long stalks and fragging itself all over the place?

 

[t316]

Yes, stalks are maybe 2". Each stalk is separate, it's not one big coral. Some of them may be connected along the base because they spread like zoos. Here's an old pic I had on my computer here at work....

 

[t316]

That pic was over a year ago. Now there must be 20 times that many stalks in that area of the tank.

 

[spanko]

Yeah I agree yours is Anthelia sp. because the stalks are so long. However in this picture;

That is how close they have stayed to the ground forever, well forever in this tank, the only thing they have done is the individual tentacles on each polyp have gotten longer.
I hope the OP is getting some information from this thread jack we seem to have committed here. It all relates and should provide some good basis from himher to decide on the critter in the pic they provided.

 

[t316]

Yeah, I can see some slight differences now that both pics are up.
I don't think we have hijacked the thread too much, it's all related

 

[jcovercash]

Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/3032511
Yeah I agree yours is Anthelia sp. because the stalks are so long. However in this picture;

That is how close they have stayed to the ground forever, well forever in this tank, the only thing they have done is the individual tentacles on each polyp have gotten longer.
I hope the OP is getting some information from this thread jack we seem to have committed here. It all relates and should provide some good basis from himher to decide on the critter in the pic they provided.

This is what it looks like up close. Its just one though and has a more reddish color to it.