Hitchhiker ID

nkkm · 04/28/2011, 11:30 PM

Just put a couple of small pieces of coraline encrusted live rock in the tank and saw this sticking out on one of them. Sorry for the poor photo. Is it coral?

ReeferBill · 04/28/2011, 11:38 PM

Hi NkKm ; Looks like some type of coral. Maybe a small open brain.Pretty Kool!!!!

nkkm · 04/28/2011, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ReeferBill

Hi NkKm ; Looks like some type of coral. Maybe a small open brain.Pretty Kool!!!!

Hey reeferBill

Thanks for the reply. My tank is going through its cycle and i dont have lighting setup yet. Am i likely to lose it if it is coral?

ecdragonz · 04/28/2011, 11:49 PM

May be a zoo

kctango · 04/29/2011, 08:30 AM

nkkm
It does look like a brain coral of some sort. As for will it survive the cycle I would say most likely if you provide lighting, now I am not talking MH but at least T5's. If you look at some of my threads in the past, I had a brain coral, feather dusters, clams, and other corals that came in on my live rock and it all survived. I just used my T5's to light the tank and not my MH's. As of today it all looks great, even my badly damaged gorgonians have pulled thru.

bnumair · 04/29/2011, 08:45 AM

yes tank is still cycling it will more than likely lose the coral. seems like a coral cant tell pic is not clear.

nkkm · 05/08/2011, 11:53 AM

More photos to help with ID.

Sometimes when I go to the tank it has expanded and looks like this. Then it goes back to looking like the other photos most of the time. Still no light on the tank.

nkkm · 05/09/2011, 07:55 PM

bump

CLisPRO · 05/09/2011, 08:29 PM

It dosent look much like a brain from the second pictures now.

MattAndKim · 05/09/2011, 10:43 PM

Ricordea Florida?

incognitus · 05/10/2011, 12:56 AM

Blastomussa

SoLiD · 05/10/2011, 02:01 AM

It's tough to really tell without a better picture. Move it closer to the glass for a better picture.

nkkm · 05/10/2011, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by SoLiD

It's tough to really tell without a better picture. Move it closer to the glass for a better picture.

This is about the best i could do with this lens.

Crkbaby · 05/10/2011, 09:15 PM

looks like possibly a tube anemone I would maybe check it over a day or 2 to see if it moves at all.

nkkm · 05/11/2011, 09:01 AM

Definitely has not moved since i put it in the tank two weeks ago. I finally got some lights on it and looks like there are two similar smaller ones below it. Here are some better pics. This is them open.

nkkm · 05/22/2011, 03:25 PM

Hi all

Looked in the tank just now and there is a worm type object in the middle of one of them and touching the smaller one to the side of it. Any ideas, is this something bad or part of the creature? Only change is i added a chromis and some cheato to the fuge.

kdino1 · 05/22/2011, 03:49 PM

its hard to tell but it looks like some type of anemone to me, possibly a majano. but still even with your pics its hard to tell, do you have a macro setting on your camera, if so try it out.

Bluemon · 05/22/2011, 04:28 PM

Rock anemone

nkkm · 05/23/2011, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by kdino1

its hard to tell but it looks like some type of anemone to me, possibly a majano. but still even with your pics its hard to tell, do you have a macro setting on your camera, if so try it out.

Sorry, I was using my SLR which doesnt have a macro lens. I borrowed a P&S with macro setting. Do these help? If not i will try to get them closer to the glass and try again.

Whatever they are have not moved since they were put in the tank nearly 4 weeks ago.

04/28/2011, 11:38 PM	#2
ReeferBill Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 1,906	Hitcher Hi NkKm ; Looks like some type of coral. Maybe a small open brain.Pretty Kool!!!! __________________ I never realized I had to be a Chemist and a Marine Biologist to maintain a Reef Aquarium!

04/29/2011, 08:45 AM	#6
bnumair Dr. Reef at ur service Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tulsa, Ok, USA Posts: 7,751 Blog Entries: 15	yes tank is still cycling it will more than likely lose the coral. seems like a coral cant tell pic is not clear. __________________ Water Quality: NO3 0,Phos 0,Cal 440,Alk 7.5,Mag 1300 "Reef Fast, You Crash, Reef Slow, You Pass" Mike's Reef 3:16 Current Tank Info: 350g DT,95g sump, 50g Frag tank, 4800gph return 4x Sea swirls. 6x AI Vega Color. 200# Pukani rock, dual recirculating skimmer, Biopellet, GFO Carbon rx's, Cal rx. Closed loop. 1.5hp chiller, genesis renew. Apex & RKE

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Crkbaby Registered Member. Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cleveland Ohio Posts: 422	looks like possibly a tube anemone I would maybe check it over a day or 2 to see if it moves at all.

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