6"x6" Galaxia - Grows really fast make me offer or trade.
its better if you just name a price or a trade. this way we know what ya want or need and it removes all of the hagaling. <is that spelled right? lOl
sale might be pending
If sale falls through I would be intersted. Don’t have much to trade, but I’ll offer $25? As martinfamily said may be best to name a price or trade.
OK, tank is still cycling. Amm dropped back to 0, Nitrites are falling, Nitrates rising. Have not done a water change yet.
The other day (Tuesday I think) I saw a zoa or paly (not sure what) couldn’t get a picture but think I can describe it very well.
It is 1/4 in or smaller. Looks like a daisy (sorry I garden and that is a better description than me trying to use marine terms). The color is similar to the coraline it is near and the tips of the “petals” are light colored (don’t think they are white but if I had to pick a color I would say off-white). It is located in a hole on the rock.
My question is Tuesday night it was open but when I turned on the light it closed back up (went back into its hole). Tuesday night I rearrainged my rock some and moved the powerheads. Since then it has opened a little but seems to open some and then close. I think it was in a higher flow location on Tuesday than it was Wednesday, but I moved the powerhead again last night (it caused a bare bottom spot elsewhere in the tank) so I think it is getting more flow again. Right now my lighting is NO (2 bulb flourescent don’t know the wattage). I have been testing (SG, temp, pH, nitrite, nitrate, KH) all week but don’t have them with me right now.
So my question, more than what it is (which would be nice to know but not a pressing as my question) is what should I do to keep from killing it? Maybe Lee and Karen have an idea of what it is and what type of conditions it likes.
I’m guessing it isn’t a feather duster in a coraline covered tube?
My star polyps look like purple coraline when they aren’t out and look like daisys when they are out, but the “leaves” are green (green star polyps).
Much larger than the featherdusters I have seen.
And the coraline colored part shrinks when it closes.
Any chance we could get a picture? That would help a lot with getting the correct ID for you.
Hi MiniMomma, It could be a green star polyp. I thought the green stars were dead, but they are coming back. We had them in that 75g tank on the rock. When we moved some of the rock into the 24 nano I noticed the green stars were coming back but they are white not green. I thought they we goners and there they are. So it very well may be one of those. They are purple with white looking daisy. I will see if I can get a pic and see if Lee can post it. Hope this helps…Karen
Thanks Karen.
I will see if I can get a picture as well. The other night all I had was my point and shoot camera, but I have since pulled out my old DSLR (smaller meg than the new one but has manual focus). I can use that to try. Without manual focus just couldn’t get a picture. Only problem with my old camera (other than as a SLR it doesn’t fit into pocket or diaper bag) is that it is old and they don’t make memory cards that are small enough for it to use.
To try to get the point and shoot to focus, you can buy a 10$ magnifying lens from walmart that lets your camera focus much easier.
With the same camera it took my picture skills from this:
To this:
yep its gsp >aka green star polyps and eventually you will be fragging some and selling it as t is a fast grower. well in some tanks… :-?
Here is a picture I took and a close up from the same pic. I drew a box around it in the top pic but the box is hard to see.
It is not as open as it was the other day (or earlier today). I also found a second one on the same rock.
That looks like a mojano nem to me. You might want to get rid of those now while there are only a few as they can take over pretty quickly. They will sting any corals you might decode to add later.
yes i agree if there is nothing else on this rock you can pull it out and just chisel the spots off with them on there. then a good fw dip and back in tank.
I totally agree! We had two of those on one of the rocks in the tank. I wasn’t thinking about that, but we were just asking about that a few days ago. Lee took a pic and wanted opinions of what it was. Check on here under (id ??? please) He has a good pic of one. If it looks like that get rid of it. Check it out…Karen
I just went back and looked at gotasplinters id thread again, while the picture doesn’t look right Cdangel0’s description is pretty accurate of what it looks like. The “petals” are definately attached to the edge of the center disk and the only thing on the center disk appears to be a mouth in the center of it.
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yes i agree if there is nothing else on this rock you can pull it out and just chisel the spots off with them on there. then a good fw dip and back in tank. [/quote]
The only other thing other than coraline and featherdusters is another on of these. I may be posting again once I get home and look at it cause I am not sure how I would chisel this one off as it is in a hole.
By fw dip you mean freshwater dip. And that is basically put it in RODI water for about 1 minute right?
abcd everyone
That is a majano anemone. That is what they look like under low lighting, they don’t color up as much. I’ll have to go down and take a pic of the colony I have growing. Like I said in the previous thread, I have never had them sting anything or cause problems in my tank.
Here ya go:
Looks more like a Caribbean collimorph(mushroom coral) to me, but tough call. Take a look at some images of the Pseudocorynatis. I have had these in one of my systems for years with out any troubles. The ones I have look different from what you have though, but there are more then one species in the genus so I wouldn’t rule it out. It can be very difficult to identify it as one or another.
Keep a close eye on it and see if it changes colors at all. If it does chance colors snap more pics and PM me.
Hope it works out to be a collimorph and not a pest anemone. Would be great if you could hold this rock in a quarantine tank until you can identify it as something you would like in your tank and pay for, or something you would pay someone to remove.
Jon