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Reef_rookies
03/29/2016, 12:40 PM
I have searched the Internet everywhere and cannot find what these 2 hitchhikers that came on my live rock are....please help! The L.R apparently came from Fiji. ..
Tweaked
03/29/2016, 12:57 PM
Hard to see the second one (could be sponge or stony coral) the first pic looks to be tunicates.
http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg485/TweakedS10/IMGP3185_zpsweczd0zw.jpg (http://s1240.photobucket.com/user/TweakedS10/media/IMGP3185_zpsweczd0zw.jpg.html)
Cozmo4
03/29/2016, 01:10 PM
I agree on the first - tunicates. Second looks like a sponge to me, but it's hard to see.
Reef_rookies
03/29/2016, 05:40 PM
Thank you! I actually went to the local big Al's after posting and they also said the one pic was turnicates and the other one a sponge so you were right! Tonight we added a cleaner shrimp 2 ninja star snails..2 scarlet hermetic crabs and 2 zebra torches snails for our clean up crew! Finally the tank isn't looking so bare!
Reef_rookies
03/30/2016, 10:26 AM
Here is another hitchhiker we have in the tank that I need help identifying if anyone could please help...I'm hoping it's not Aiptasial!!!
Reef_rookies
03/30/2016, 10:30 AM
And one more that looks very similar...not the indicate...the other object that looks like a polyp with a white ring?
oseymour
03/30/2016, 10:55 AM
Here is another hitchhiker we have in the tank that I need help identifying if anyone could please help...I'm hoping it's not Aiptasial!!!
That looks like aptaisa to me.
ericp351
03/30/2016, 07:54 PM
Yes. Aptasia.
Reef_rookies
03/30/2016, 11:32 PM
Yes. Aptasia.
How can I be sure? I have been looking at other things on the internet that look very similar. Does aiptasia hide from light? Two of these things hide from it...one is under a rock away from light and extends more at night as I have been watching it at night with a flash light. The other one hides in a hole during day when light is on and also comes out at night!
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