New tiny little anemone

[Anonymous]

I noticed this thing in my tank last night while shooting the blenny photos. I think it's a budded BTA!!!! It's only about 3mm tall, so very difficult to say (the thing it's trying to injest is a piece of pellet food about the size of a bb), but it sure looks like a BTA to me!!

 

[wade1]

Fairly sure BTA's don't drop buds... the split (fission) or sexually reproduce. It could be a majano, although there are a few other smaller, tentacle bearing critters it could be as well (I don't know the names, but I have some like it, but they are hot pink or orange on the tips and clear bodied).

Kinda cool though to find something new in an older tank huh?

Wade

 

[Anonymous]

That's what I'd thought about BTAs as well (fission rather than budding), but this one acted so strange, losing almost all its tentacles (but otherwise remaining healthy), I dunno what's going on. Majano was my 2nd thought as well, but I haven't had problems with them in the past. I've got some of those little clear-bodied things too, so I may have just stumbled across a juvenile one of those...

Who knows, but you're right Wade, very cool