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02/25/2010, 02:05 PM
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ID please?
I bought some red mushroom on a rock from the lfs. It came with these brown polyps and i have no clue what they r. Could someone tell what ive got and how to care for it?
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02/25/2010, 02:24 PM
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Can you get a better focus? Hope they are not a heavy aiptasia infestation.
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02/25/2010, 02:28 PM
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Could be yellow polythoas polyps that have been deprived of adequate lighting.
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02/25/2010, 02:30 PM
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they get lots of light. I tried for a long time my camera sucks. They r only on tjat one rock but they r spreading on that rock.
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02/25/2010, 02:34 PM
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i searched both of those and i dosent look like either. they r really small and hve a black dot in the middle of each one.
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02/25/2010, 02:38 PM
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You need to post a better pic
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02/25/2010, 02:47 PM
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id love to but its not gonna happen this camera sucks.
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02/25/2010, 02:51 PM
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when i touch them with something they close up if that helps at all. its basicly a stem with a little ball of fur on the end and a black dot in the center.
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02/25/2010, 02:53 PM
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Ok then, maybe some kind of anthelia.
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02/25/2010, 03:01 PM
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that could b it at a really young stage. sorry i cant get a better pic. any suggestion i will search and c if i can id it.
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02/25/2010, 03:25 PM
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it also spreads and grows like a weed
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02/25/2010, 03:30 PM
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they do look too brown to be this, BUT maybe a pineapple sponge?
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02/25/2010, 03:41 PM
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no i dont think thats it these have a really small stem. thay almost look like a star polyp only they r about 1 cm big and they have about 20 - 30 small hairs on the top. it looks like they r branching i really dont know how else to descibe them.
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02/25/2010, 03:46 PM
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Almost look like Hydriods ( sp ), but I hope that I am wrong. Very difficult to get rid of.
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02/25/2010, 03:53 PM
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I think thats it. It is the darker ones on the right.
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02/25/2010, 03:55 PM
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is this a problem and should i get rid of it. it is only on the small rock i got. Should i cut the mushrooms of get rid of it?
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02/25/2010, 03:56 PM
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its not the bigger ons on the right
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02/25/2010, 04:06 PM
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heres another pic that looks like it
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02/25/2010, 04:13 PM
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definitely hydroids
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02/25/2010, 04:19 PM
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how big of a problem r they?
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02/25/2010, 05:17 PM
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shuld i get them out right away?
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02/25/2010, 06:27 PM
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hydroids should not be a problem. I mean they ARE problematic, However, they cannot really survive for long in our tanks. Hydroids are basically jellyfish. There are 3 stages. 1, egg, 2, "stalk" version that you have, then free-floating jellyfish. Usually once they hit the jellyfish stage they all die and cannot reproduce.
That last photo looks like brown, green star polyps. Don't know if there is a brown star polyp. If it is a star polyp, then they may be a nuissance, and can grow very quickly.
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