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trido

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About a month ago this colony showed up on a piece of LR I've had for a year. It is near the front of hte tank so I figured I'd just keep an eye on them and see how rapidly they spread. I just noticed a second colony up very high in the tank directly under the MH in a crevice.
These things look like a cross between a tubastrea and yellow polyps. They are colonial, about 2 mm. across on the polyp, they have a yellow green polyp and calcium skeleton about 4mm. long and .5 mm around. Have anyone ever seen anything like these before? In the third pic the colony has the pointer. It is about the size of a dime. The pocillapora is the size of a 50 cent piece for reference.
 

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Len I see you in here. Did you delete the last two pics feeling they were worthless and wanted to save a little cyberspace?
 
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Reminds me of these things - they were pretty plentiful on my Florida live rock...
 

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Ghost of Cheese Sandwich":1nt4elky said:
Reminds me of these things - they were pretty plentiful on my Florida live rock...

That's Cladocora, the polyps are clear, trido's beastie isn't.
 

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Lawdawg":1ubhdfu8 said:
Way too big for hydroid. Looks more like a type of zoanthid.
Are you sure? The whole length of the crevice the colony is in is only about an inch long.


steal this username":1ubhdfu8 said:
But, trido, I have no idea without a better picture.
I'll see If I can get a good top down shot today.
 

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I could not get a better pic. That is as good as they get without a better lens for the camera.
 

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