Hitchhiker ID Help Please

[kwolfskill]

Hey Gang -
My tank has been up and running for about 6 months now, and I have new hitch hikers appearing that I would like some help identifying.
My guess is that this first image is aiptasia, correct? How did that little bugger get in here

The second image appears to be algea, but it looks like short red hair, is that possible?
The third image is something that I have no clues about, any ideas?
Thanks!

 

[reefkprz]

the third is actually red bubble algae it grows in fingers like that occasionaly. the first is aiptasia, the second I dont know.

 

[coraldude]

WOW! This is the first thread I've seen on here where aiptasia is spelled correctly.

The second pic could be colonial anenomes, but the pic is too blurry to tell for sure.

 

[kwolfskill]

Originally Posted by reefkprZ
the third is actually red bubble algae it grows in fingers like that occasionaly. the first is aiptasia, the second I dont know.
Great, that is what I was afraid of. Why have one problem when I can have many.

 

[ninjamini]

#2 look like well fed hair algae. IT turns red.

 

[peef]

Get one or two peppermint shrimp, they will decimate the aiptasia

 

[dreamer44]

Originally Posted by peef
Get one or two peppermint shrimp, they will decimate the aiptasia
I have the same hair algae, and the two peppermints in my tank arent even touching it....they prefer the few zoa's that I have in there

Lori

 

[renogaw]

could 3 be a tunicate or some other sponge?

 

[mushroomss]

it looks like a spounge i recently read up on but the name escapes me

 

[kwolfskill]

Originally Posted by renogaw
could 3 be a tunicate or some other sponge?
I does look like some kind of ascidian to me. Maybe

 

[reefkprz]

#3 is definatly bubble algae, porifera (sponges)are some of my favorite things. also I have some red bubble algae in my 12g growing in exactly the same manner, I am 100% sure on that Id. if it were a sponge it would be more hazy throughout with pores and channels.