whtat is it?

[trefon]

can anyone tell me what these are? i think the top one is some type of coral, & the bottom one is an anemone of some sort. should i leave them be? or should I get rid of them?
I plan on adding some corals once the tank is cycled & i dont want them to intefere....

 

[trefon]

yup, lets try that again...

 

[pigeoncreek1]

The anemone in the lower left of the pic is an "aiptasia" These guys aren't a welcome addition to tanks, they can spread like wild and damage(sting) your other corals. The easiest way to kill them is injecting them with a strong Kalkwasser solution. I have also used Kent's turbo calcium with great success. I would get rid of it ASAP. HTH

 

[trefon]

when you say inject, how do you mean? add the solution to the water? or actually inject them?

 

[nm reef]

For the "aiptasia"...mix some pickling lime with water and inject the paste directly into the center of the pest...it'll get rid of 'em.
The other critter looks like a type of ricordia maybe...can't tell for sure but it looks like ricordia.

 

[trefon]

it wont harm anything else in the tank?

 

[nm reef]

But....after looking again.... skilos1 may be correct ....which would without a doubt be the very first time I've ever in my life been wrong...after 47 years I may possibly have made my first mistake.
Shhhhhh...don't tell anybody.
Seriously...skilos may be right....both can be classed as pests.

 

[trefon]

ok, im still not totally clear, inject with a syringe or turkey baster?

 

[michaeltx]

I use a syringe to get it inside the critter. its more of a controled thing than hat a turkey baster would be.
I use kalk just thin enough to go into the syringe and the inject it.
if it were me I would let the top one grow a little bit to make sure that it is a manjano anemone. there are many things that look like one another and sometimes is hard to tell what they are.
here is a pic of a manjano that I have in my tank. I leave it grow and nuke the offspringe when they show up.
Mike

 

[scuba steveo]

just hot water injection worked fine for me
and a few peppermint shrimp additions to eat the remaing that i missed
all gone now
BLASTED

 

[bang guy]

Interesting to see a Anemonea sp. next to Aiptasia sp. (My opinion). I wonder if they would battle eat other to the death??

 

[michaeltx]

I had one that walked over the top of an apista and both were fine no damage the lived in touching range of each other for a long time until I nuke them both.
Mike

 

[trefon]

Ok, I took 2 of the three rocks out & blasted them under hot water & took a new tooth brush & brushed the little

[hr]
off. So far, those 2 are clean (except 1 little bugger I missed). My brittlestar is in the 3rd rock so I cant blast it with hot water yet, but as soon as he gets out of there, im blasting that rock as well.

 

[michaeltx]

you do relize that blasting it with hot frsh water is killing everything that is living in the rock including the bacteria.
the best way is a syrigne and inject them.
Mike

 

[jonthefb]

plus scrubbing them with a tooth brush is more of a helper to them, cause any little bit that remains and winds up back in th etank will likely grow into a new one, so you could be in for some serious trouble!
good luck
jon

 

[trefon]

great, so i probably made it worse....if thats the case, do u have any idea how long it would be before they would show up again? the 3 pieces that they were on was bought at a lfs with little, id any life on it at all. It was inted to be used as base to build on once the good stuff arived. figures, last time i buy from them!!!!