help I'd this please

[kwandrsn]

Found this on my live rock it has like a tube with several holes and has little "hands" coming out with "fingers" when you touch it it sucks the little hands back in
Its not a barnacle , worm or aptasia

 

[saxman]

Your photo is so fuzzy, it's hard to see what you mean (back off a bit, or tell your camera where to focus). However, from the description, it sounds like colonial hydroids.
See if you can find your critter here:
http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/hitchhiker.shtml
Just scroll down to "sessile" and look for your critter...

 

[kwandrsn]

Better Pics

 

[kwandrsn]

when I touch it is sucks the things back inside

 

[saxman]

Nope, not droids...it's a coral...Clavularia or Anthelia, I suspect. I'll let the reefers take it from here...I'm a FO kinda guy these days.

 

[kwandrsn]

I'm thinking its some type of xenia. I just hope it survives the cycling process

 

[kwandrsn]

is it a gorgonian?

 

[kwandrsn]

Nobody?

 

[saxman]

That looks like Xenia sp. to me...kind of like the "pom-pom" Xenia...
Does it pulse?

 

[kwandrsn]

no doesn't pulse just closes up if you touch it

 

[kwandrsn]

it has kinda a white or grey stalk that the tentacles come out of. If you touch it it sucks them back in the stalk. I found two more starting to grow a few inches from it on the same rock. The tentacles almost look like pulsating xenia but the stalk doesn't and they don't pulse