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[Awibrandy]

Guys/Gals, sorry these are the best pics I could get.

The green is obviously some form of algea, but I don't know the species. I remember it hitching a ride on a rock many years ago, but my tangs ate back then. It recently started growing back. Anyone have an idea what species it may be?

The brown things are on the underside of a cap. I'm fearing the worse. The dreaded AIPTASIA:bigeyes:!!
Please tell me I'm wrong, these are going to be extremely difficult to kill with vinegar injections as they are tinie.

 

[tosiek]

Emerald crabs eat the green stuff too. Its not super intrusive, build a calcium stalk and usually are real brittle. Can break them off and they don;t grow back really. They will spread from where they are now though but won't jump ship and move to another area like aptasia or any other intrusive algae. forgot the name i know i posted a pic with it somewhere.

 

[Awibrandy]

Hey T, these may not be the same one as these are soft not brittle. They came on that rock some 6years ago, but the tangs I had then ate it. Now it has grown back.

You have any idea on the second pic? Is that a cluster of aiptasia?

 

[o0jmadr0x0o]

I think i have something similar in my tank that started sprouting up recently, and it has spread from 1 stalk to a group of them pretty quick, what kind of tang did you have that ate them?
im not sure but i think this is what it may be.

Neomeris sp. - caterpillar weed

the first pic on here
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-01/sl/index.php

 

[Awibrandy]

I think i have something similar in my tank that started sprouting up recently, and it has spread from 1 stalk to a group of them pretty quick, what kind of tang did you have that ate them?
im not sure but i think this is what it may be.

Neomeris sp. - caterpillar weed

the first pic on here
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-01/sl/index.php

Hey, thanks! That is exactly what it is. Give me a little time to try, and remember which tangs they were. I'm pretty sure they were, yellow, purple, sailfin tangs as those were my early tangs. Which I still love.

 

[Awibrandy]

I took a couple more pics of what I believe to be "aiptasia". Am I correct?:irked:

 

[OctaviousMonk]

That does not look like aiptasia at all to me after getting a better look at the way they are growing. Aiptasia would not be growing all so uniformly and also would have spread as opposed to growing in a colonial manor like your's is. I wonder if they will start to color up into something pretty :splitspin

 

[prattreef]

Def. not Aiptasia. Looks like some kind of colonial polyp.

 

[clownlover]

agreed, def not aptasia. i had a fuge full of aiptasia if u want me to post a pic.

 

[Awibrandy]

Thanks guys! The colonial way they have been growing is what had me going. They are growing on a little rock under a cap. In the pic they are magnified, they are really tinie. Very hard to see what they look like without the pic.

 

[Awibrandy]

Not neccesary clownlover. My gf had a tank full of the nasty little buggers a few years back.lol