I bumped into Craig at DPA and I was telling him that I found a new hitchhiker (I guess, I only just found it and nothing I bought recently I don’t think had it on, last thing i bought was a pair of ocellaris!) Well I was trying to get the small yumas my yuma dropped and frag it. Well I saw what I thought was a long tentacled yuma, proceeded to poke it and watch it retract way faster than a normal yuma. That was when I realized I had a small anemone on my hands. I think I have always had him but he hasn’t been eating. I finally have been feeding him a few pellets every once in awhile and this is what he is. Can someone ID him for me?
I’d agree with Corynactis AKA strawberry anemone or club tipped anemone, i have dozens of them and they are harmless (or at least haven’t harmed anything in my tank)
After reading about Pseudocorynactis on that page Craig posted, i’d think its not that as it says that it would not be fish safe and grow to 6" diameter both of which are not true to the ones that i have which look just like yours. (of course now i’d be a little worried if i see one getting bigger)
they can come in some cool colors too, mine have a green tinge similar to this one
also, i wouldn’t try to feed them, they can fend for them selves.
Looks very similar to the image of Pseudocorynactis(aka Caribbean corallimorph) in the guide to marine inverts. The max size Ron Shimek lists is .5â€ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ, which differs from what Sprung says, but Sprung is refering to the entire genus. In my experience they do well in VERY well fed tanks and it appears this is what Sprung is stating as well. They also can easily win a battle with a stony coral. I have trouble with them competing with my sun coral in my non-photosynthetic tanks for years.
Tim what was the distinguishing characteristic of your animals which told you they were Corynactis?
Concerning your animal Bugbabe, I would consider it a harmless hitchhicker like a feather duster. The instance I mentioned where it is trouble in my tank was a very odd ball situation. VERY few people spot feed a specific area of their tank as much as I feed that particular rock. They also do better in shadier areas of the tank and well my tank has no light on top of it.
Its funny you mention they like it shadier, cause when I initially saw him he was under that rock pretty much in the sand bed. But I moved the rock up and he has stayed there ever since. If he has grown it is like a mm cause I gave him a few fish pellets. He actually closes random times, doesnt seem to have much of a clock (unless when he is fed then of course he is closed) but he seems the same body type both day and night. But if they stay tiny then that could explain why I never saw it. I just thought it was amusing that I spotted him a couple months post Clownfish pair hahaha. (who knew clownfish came with their own anemones ) I swear, for a 24 gallon I am still finding surprises (IE found out the source of the snapping noise I mentioned awhile ago… I had a 2 inch crab in my tank! I assume it was the tiny one I had seen from the beginning of the tank crab has since been gone since I couldn’t ID him) Also my Bicolor Blenny completely disappeared one day! No idea where he went. I am assuming into his flat rock and got stuck or something. Shame too, he was my favorite fish other than the McCoskers (who sadly got an internal parasite and died too ).
While I’m here, what would cause a torch coral to just die? Mine was doing well then all of a sudden he just kinda started retracting, I thought maybe it was because I wasn’t feeding enough so I tried spot feeding him but soon after he completely retracted and died. No brown jelly disease though. I’m sad cause it was one of my favorites and I want to get another one.
Jon, based on that article Craig linked i figure mine is Corynactis. It states that the Fiji Pseudocorynactis are much larger, then it states that the Caribbean Pseudocorynactis are smaller but close rapidly in the presence of light and open at night yet the Indo Pacific ones remain open all day. Mine are open all day so i assume based on that behavior this is the case, i could be completely wrong as I’m not great at pinning anemone ID on physical characteristics.
) I swear, for a 24 gallon I am still finding surprises (IE found out the source of the snapping noise I mentioned awhile ago… I had a 2 inch crab in my tank! I assume it was the tiny one I had seen from the beginning of the tank crab has since been gone since I couldn’t ID him) Also my Bicolor Blenny completely disappeared one day! No idea where he went. I am assuming into his flat rock and got stuck or something. Shame too, he was my favorite fish other than the McCoskers (who sadly got an internal parasite and died too 
).