I need a few things ID
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perfectdark
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Not sure about the second pic its not too clear. The first ones look like candy canes. Either that or some type of mushroom. In some of the pics there appears to be tenticles so thats why I said candy canes.
yosemite sam
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Yes, the first ones look like those little hitch hiking corals people get. What is the texture of the second thing? It could be a type of aglae called Botryocladia sp. There are some varieties that are very similar to that.
jchmiel
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Found my post on the guys in the first pics. Good pic in there.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/276431/id-please-red-anemone-in-rock
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/276431/id-please-red-anemone-in-rock
trippkid
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Originally Posted by Yosemite Sam
Yes, the first ones look like those little hitch hiking corals people get.
I hope I am not giving misinformation about this Yosemite Sam. Thanks for the correction earlier. I have never been able to find a lot of information on these, I am pretty sure they are from the Caryophylliidae family, Paracyathus Stearnsi or Balanophyllia Elegans, similar to a sun coral or a dendro. Most that I have seen have been either clear or brownish in color. They are more like a solitary hard coral than an anenome(don't know why they are called this sometimes).No real special care, they will catch food with their tenticles, I don't think they contain zooxanthellae(not sure on this), so they should be fed zooplankton and meaty type foods if you want them to thrive, not just hang on. Again, never found anything "concrete" about these little guys, I guess I will keep searching for more information on these. I wish I had them in my current tank, have had them years ago, gave the rocks to a friend before we moved.
Yes, the first ones look like those little hitch hiking corals people get.
I hope I am not giving misinformation about this Yosemite Sam. Thanks for the correction earlier. I have never been able to find a lot of information on these, I am pretty sure they are from the Caryophylliidae family, Paracyathus Stearnsi or Balanophyllia Elegans, similar to a sun coral or a dendro. Most that I have seen have been either clear or brownish in color. They are more like a solitary hard coral than an anenome(don't know why they are called this sometimes).No real special care, they will catch food with their tenticles, I don't think they contain zooxanthellae(not sure on this), so they should be fed zooplankton and meaty type foods if you want them to thrive, not just hang on. Again, never found anything "concrete" about these little guys, I guess I will keep searching for more information on these. I wish I had them in my current tank, have had them years ago, gave the rocks to a friend before we moved.
yosemite sam
Active Member
Originally Posted by trippkid
I hope I am not giving misinformation about this Yosemite Sam.
Don't worry! I am by no means an ID expert, I just wanted make sure the person on the other post got the right ID. I've never seen a ton of info on the little guys in the first pictures either. I thought one of the mods had posted an ID for them a long time ago, but I couldn't find it. Your IDs, if not them, look like they're pretty close
I did find a photo in the hitch hiker archive HERE (it's the 4th post down) that resembles the thing in the second group of photos. There's no ID for it in the post, however. Photos of some kinds of Botryocladia sp. are pretty close, though.
I hope I am not giving misinformation about this Yosemite Sam.
Don't worry! I am by no means an ID expert, I just wanted make sure the person on the other post got the right ID. I've never seen a ton of info on the little guys in the first pictures either. I thought one of the mods had posted an ID for them a long time ago, but I couldn't find it. Your IDs, if not them, look like they're pretty close
I did find a photo in the hitch hiker archive HERE (it's the 4th post down) that resembles the thing in the second group of photos. There's no ID for it in the post, however. Photos of some kinds of Botryocladia sp. are pretty close, though.