Tank Journal Archive

[MichelleShocked]

I just discovered these this morning!
Logic suggests they are likely Mojano anemones.
However they don't seem to have the long anemone tentacles.
They are either juvi Mojanos or Palys of some type.
I thought there were 2:

But quickly realised there were 3:

 

[holly]

They look like paly or zoa to me. I've got a few manjano here and there and they don't look like that :) lucky you!

 

[MichelleShocked]

I actually have 6 Mojanos which i'v not killed off since they have behaved impeccably thus far so I assumed they must be small Mojanos

 

[MagicJ]

A bit hard to tell from your picture but I had something similar growing on some live rock a few years ago - mine were only about 3mm diameter. Do yours look like this ?

Unfortunately, I was never able to get it identified.

 

[MichelleShocked]

Yep @MagicJ - looks like them! Theyr very small - very hard to photograph. I only noticed them this morning and only because i was photographing something else. I've taken pix of that area many times & never saw them there but today they were visible in the photo - hard to see w/ the naked eye. I was using a magnifying glass to take the pix thru.

 

[MichelleShocked]

Better pix this afternoon:

I've counted 4. They have a long stem & their "face" is thin & finely striated. They appear to have no tentacles - they remind me of dainty mushrooms

 

[MichelleShocked]

Any light to shed @Dr. Schell ? :)

 

[MichelleShocked]

I've also discovered another mussel/clam/bi-valve type thing growing in another part of my tank. Its right beside a tube worm. And I've spotted another 2 tunicates - 1 is brown-y yellow & the other is bright orange.

 

[Dr. Schell]

I've also discovered another mussel/clam/bi-valve type thing growing in another part of my tank. Its right beside a tube worm. And I've spotted another 2 tunicates - 1 is brown-y yellow & the other is bright orange.

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this one is a tunicate (sea-squirt) as can be seen by the 2 valves (and entry and exit pore)

 

[Dr. Schell]

looks to be a paly or perhaps a newly settled hard coral such as a hammer or heliofunga

 

[MichelleShocked]

looks to be a paly or perhaps a newly settled hard coral such as a hammer or heliofunga

The little green paly-things you mean?

 

[Dr. Schell]

The little green paly-things you mean?

yes

 

[MichelleShocked]

yes

Hmm. Ok, cool :) I'll watch them with interest then :) I don't know where they would have come from. Perhaps they settled when in the LFS and are only growing now.

 

[Dr. Schell]

Hmm. Ok, cool :) I'll watch them with interest then :) I don't know where they would have come from. Perhaps they settled when in the LFS and are only growing now.

If you use NSW, may have come in as pelagic larvae and settled once in your tank.

 

[MichelleShocked]

Ah - good point

 

[MagicJ]

I understand that it is often hard trying to identify things from dodgy photo's :rolleyes

I always thought that mine was an algae - the discussion in this thread has made me investigate further (the internet is a wonderful thing).

What about something like Acetabularia calyculus ??

 

[MichelleShocked]

That looks rather like it, @MagicJ - i wouldnt have picked it for an algae! Theyr pretty though!