ID these plants please

[eggy5404]

I'm having a hard time determing if the following plants are aipitisia or some sort of feather duster.. Any help will be greatly appreciated..
Thanks
Michelle

 

[eggy5404]

another

 

[flydan]

Hey,
It's a little hard to tell by the pic, but it doesn't look like aiptasia. Probably a tube worm of some kind.
HTH,
Dan'l

 

[eggy5404]

The first plant comes directly out of my lr.. There is no tubing that I can actually see.. If I go near it, it retracts.. The second plant has a brown tubing that it come out of.. When it retracts, the tube stays in place.. I've seen a couple of pictures of aipitisia and neither of these look like them but I need to be sure.. I don't want them to spread through the tank. Thanks for the help.

 

[legion]

dusters, it looks like to me.

 

[mebigloser]

Looks like dusters to me.. Mine started off the same way.

 

[firefishspike]

geez mebigloser, I wish I had that many

 

[mebigloser]

I only started with a few, now the whole rock is covered. That picture is about 2 months old.

 

[sandman12]

mebigloser how long does it take for stuff like that to grow on ur lr and what type of lighting does it need?

 

[mebigloser]

What you see there is about 4-5 months growth, the rock started with one or two then went nuts. At this time I am using regular lighting. I will try to get an updated photo, these guys are showing up everywhere.

 

[phil1964]

I wish I was a big loser.
You know what I mean

 

[mebigloser]

LOL

 

[sammystingray]

Dusters don't need or use light in any way really. As a rule of thumb.......if it moves, it is not a plant....animals retract into a rock, plants don't. That's a great pic of the dusters! I've heard folks talking about dusters spawning and going wild, but I have never had it happen.......always just a few here and there.