PLEASE help identify this hitchhiker

[waynotcars]

Hi,

Can you guys & Girls help me to identify what this fellow is? He came with a piece of live rock about a month ago. Stays full and alert most of the time but sometimes shrivels away to nothing and I think he's gone but always reappears. He's about the diameter of a quarter. He's pinkish rosey color and whiter on the center/inside. I'd like to know what I have. Good, bad? How to take care of if good? Thanks! Oh, and I SEE that bristleworm in the photo too. Didn't even see him until I took the pic.

 

[motortrendz]

not sure what it is, but the bristle worm in the top right is not a bristle worm, it looks like the leg of a brittle star..

 

[cybermeez]

Hard to say, but it looks like an anemone that has receded due to lack of food.

 

[isakofyork001]

i think it's an anemone like cybermeez says,

 

[motortrendz]

now that you say that i agree.... but the colors would be reversed..

 

[cybermeez]

now that you say that i agree.... but the colors would be reversed..

Compared to a RBTA yes, that's right. When anemones are starving they tend to lose their color. Several species also have a colorful foot including condy anemones. Odds are, that's what it is. They are very comon in aquaria, but are not hosts for clowns.

 

[waynotcars]

So please tell me how to feed it and perhaps bring it back to health? I know nothing about them, what they eat, how to feed, etc. If you can help me save him I'd appreciate it.

 

[motortrendz]

Compared to a RBTA yes, that's right. When anemones are starving they tend to lose their color. Several species also have a colorful foot including condy anemones. Odds are, that's what it is. They are very comon in aquaria, but are not hosts for clowns.

good to know, thanks..

i target feed them, take a small 3ml syringe w/o the needle.. and i draw un a mixture of foods for my corals when i target feed, and i take some mysis/brine and cyclopsees and shoot is slowly owver it, IF it is a nem it will grab it and close up on it..

i dont know if anyone else has better ideas but thats what i do... hope this helps

 

[Imbarrie]

+1 cyclopeez. Small nutritious food should bring it back unless it's too far gone. Thawing the food in selcon would be even better.


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[cybermeez]

+2 on the cyclopeeze. If it has any tentacles left at all, the cyclopeez will be small enough for it to grab.