Need Anemone Identified

frankl15207

frankl15207

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Hi
Can someone please identify this anemone for me. Six of them have shown up and they are fast growers. They don't resemble the pictures of aiptasia that I've seen. I need to know if I should be nurturing them or eliminating them. Thanks in advance.
Frank
<a href="http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze26n2q/anemone.jpg" target="_blank">http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze26n2q/anemone.jpg</a>
 
brian'sreef

brian'sreef

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With the picture you have..to me it still looks like aptasia..they grow in many different sizea and even colorations. if they are spreading so fast it'd be my bet that that's what it is.. if so there are a lot of ways to eliminate the problem..the most well known are peppermint shrimp and injections of boiling water or calcium then there's others like bergia and copperbanded butterfly's.. the two most reliable are probably bergia and injections. bergia commit their entire diet to aptasia unlike copperband and peppermint shrimp.. .. check it out maybe try to get a better pic.
Brian
 
flame cardinal

flame cardinal

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defently aiptasia i used to have a ton of them in my tank they can sting outher corals mine just went away hope this helps <img src="graemlins//bah.gif" border="0" alt="[bah]" />
 
joe's reefer

joe's reefer

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aptasia or a tube anemone but most likely a large aptasia i recommend taking it out immmediately or KILLING IT muwah hahaha <img src="graemlins//uhuh.gif" border="0" alt="[U-Huh]" />
 
saltylake

saltylake

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it isnt anything else but aptasia.
get it out with either a peppermint shrimp or use a syringe with hot water and inject the aptasia at the base.
 
frankl15207

frankl15207

Member
Thanks everyone.
Removal of rock took out 4 of them. One jumped on a piece of macroalgae and was yanked too. One had positioned itself on a suction cup for a powerhead. Solid calcium chloride fried that one.
Two others were in open areas on rocks and the solid calcium chloride did them both in. This seemed to work really fast. Thanks for the advice on it.
Peppermint shrimp are in place in the 75. Only one was seen in this tank and it was a transplanted rock from the 10 gallon. The peppermint shrimp put into the 10 gallon were annihilated by something. I took care of the mantis shrimp that I didn't know was in there last night. It's a refugium and had only hermits and snails in it with some live rock, so the mantis hadn't done any damage until the peppermint shrimp hit.
So much for adding live sand from Florida. I'll never make that mistake again <g>.
 
lerch

lerch

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My pepermint shrimp hasn't done crap to get rid of my aptasia, but he is a great scavenger. If you want to keep them gone you might want to get a saron shrimp, also called a marble shrimp. Mine has killed several of the aptasia and he is still hunting. I have heard they will kill some other types of polyps but mine has not. Thye are great hunters and really neat looking shrimp.
 
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