is this Aiptasia ???
 

Found this in my tank and think its Aiptasia, sorry for the terrible photo, but its all i could get.. can anyone tell?

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...113ap.jpg?6368

the only thing i thought it might be was some small feather dusters... they are 3 little clumps of them on one rock.

thanks.

sorry, cant tell anything from that pic :)

Maybe on of the more experienced people here can tell you if apstasia will live in a cluster like that (I would think they might not because of competition for food? But not sure).

Sorry dude...that pic is horrible!

Ok ... if I squint reallllllly hard .... it looks like a circular blob on top of a thin cylindrical blob? Which makes me lean towards the feather duster theory ... :mrgreen:

If you disturb them, do the crowns retreat into the cylinder?

Aiptasia would probably disappear outright, hiding into the rockwork if disturbed, since they probably have their foot hidden into holes and such.

I don't know if this helps, but, it seems to me there usually is no mistaking aiptasia as anything other than "little anemones."

I dunno.. sorry I couldn't be of better assistance..

yah sorry the pic is terrible, upon closer inspection i do think it is aptasia... I took the rock out for now, if i let it dry compeltley will it be ok to put back in?

Ok if I stand 10 feet away from my monitor and squint hard I think I see it. The body colour matches the top, which matches the colour of aiptasia so that's my guess. Only problem is that the top looks a little too conical, closer to a feather duster in shape.

Man...this is like a game or something :lol:

The only thing I can say is that Aiptasia do not hang around in clumps. I have only ever seen them as solitary individuals. They look like a little transparent anemones. :confused:

This is what aptasia looks like

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat..._-med.jpg?5186

Does it look like this

Jason

To me that doesn't look like either one. It looks more like my wifes birthday DQ cake I forgot in the truck all weekend.

Jason! That thing is HUGE! You should frag it and sell it :)