is this a baby green carpet?

Giglamesh · 09/25/2010, 04:45 AM

natural shots give almost true colours.

edited using a facebook app to show the spots on it

flare1185 · 09/25/2010, 06:23 AM

could also be a ricordia i got a bunch that looks like baby green carpet

Gary Majchrzak · 09/25/2010, 06:45 AM

one cannot tell from those pix if it's a carpet anemone- can you post a closer pic?

Giglamesh · 09/25/2010, 07:08 AM

ah cant really get better pics will try tomorrow. but it will walk if its a nem wont it?

Gary Majchrzak · 09/25/2010, 07:32 AM

a lot of critters "walk"

Giglamesh · 09/25/2010, 07:47 AM

ok what flourecent green corals are capable of walking... that will narrow my choices if it moves

Gary Majchrzak · 09/25/2010, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Giglamesh

ok what flourecent green corals are capable of walking...

too many to list.

This thing might not be a coral or anemone.

Giglamesh · 09/25/2010, 08:05 AM

ah still kinda a noob but what else could it be? was sold to me as a morph but not like anything i have seen

Gary Majchrzak · 09/25/2010, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Giglamesh

ah still kinda a noob but what else could it be? was sold to me as a morph but not like anything i have seen

you purchased this critter by itself?

can you find out (reliably) where it was collected?

a macro picture is still the best way to take a short cut to proper identification

Giglamesh · 09/25/2010, 08:16 AM

lfs is fairly useless even by my standards. i will try to get a better shot of it tomorrow oce the lights are on it may expand more, might poke it to see if it reacts (are carpets the same as btas? poke and they retract) it has a foot like base almost as big as the head is in the photo. had to be collected in australian waters as importation of corals is illegal.

Gary Majchrzak · 09/25/2010, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Giglamesh

had to be collected in australian waters as importation of corals is illegal.

yes- this really opens up the possibilities as to what it really is.

Was it sold as a "morph"? A morph of what?

Giglamesh · 09/25/2010, 08:23 AM

corellamorph

Gary Majchrzak · 09/25/2010, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Giglamesh

corellamorph

my first guess at ID would have been this is a corallimorph but the jury is still out (so to speak).

This could very well be an anemone or something else.

Giglamesh · 09/25/2010, 08:30 AM

i shall just wait to see if it opens more. i have never seen one that colour though.

shutiny · 09/25/2010, 06:30 PM

I believed you have a juv Stichodactylade sp. I have seen 6 or 8 off springs from my gigantea and haddoni and they look just like that after a month or so. Not sure how old the specimen you have but it looks like a well developed " baby carpet". I have some pics in my data base at home and let me see if I could find my pictures so that we could do a comparison.

Gary Majchrzak · 09/25/2010, 06:33 PM

shutiny- were any of your offspring the result of budding?

shutiny · 09/25/2010, 07:57 PM

Gary, I did have a mertensii "bud", but I also had one haddoni, and a gigantea gave live birthes. I remembered that Cindy( she frag'd her H.magnifica in 06?) posted my pitures on RC a few years back.

Giglamesh · 09/26/2010, 01:17 AM

awesome would love it if you could find those pics

shutiny · 09/26/2010, 04:50 PM

Here is the gigantea:

These are what I have in my photobucket on line, but will get the S.haddoni pics(from my server) when I get home next Tu.

bues0022 · 09/27/2010, 11:30 AM

At that size, and knowing what is more/less common, to me it looks more like a small toadstool leather than an anemone.

Giglamesh · 09/27/2010, 03:40 PM

oh well i shall let it grow and see what it turns out as

Scott-CapeCoral · 09/27/2010, 04:07 PM

Hope it turns out to be impressive for you. I don't understand why someone would collect that little guy though. May I ask what you paid for this unknown ?

Mirror Pond · 09/27/2010, 06:05 PM

Is that the bottom of a larger carpet anemone that it is attached to?

Gary Majchrzak · 09/27/2010, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Mirror Pond

Is that the bottom of a larger carpet anemone that it is attached to?

definitely not

Giglamesh · 09/28/2010, 04:27 AM

5 bucks... was the cost but i bought some other things so it was basically thrown in

09/25/2010, 04:45 AM	#1
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	is this a baby green carpet? natural shots give almost true colours. edited using a facebook app to show the spots on it __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/25/2010, 06:45 AM	#3
Gary Majchrzak Team RC Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 41,560	one cannot tell from those pix if it's a carpet anemone- can you post a closer pic? __________________ over 24 years experience with multiple types of marine aquarium systems see Upstate Reef Society Forum on RC and FB GOOGLE JUNIOR'S REEF Current Tank Info: 84x24x30 265g reef past TOTM honors

09/25/2010, 07:08 AM	#4
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	ah cant really get better pics will try tomorrow. but it will walk if its a nem wont it? __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/25/2010, 07:32 AM	#5
Gary Majchrzak Team RC Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 41,560	a lot of critters "walk" __________________ over 24 years experience with multiple types of marine aquarium systems see Upstate Reef Society Forum on RC and FB GOOGLE JUNIOR'S REEF Current Tank Info: 84x24x30 265g reef past TOTM honors

09/25/2010, 07:47 AM	#6
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	ok what flourecent green corals are capable of walking... that will narrow my choices if it moves __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/25/2010, 06:23 AM	#2
flare1185 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 473	could also be a ricordia i got a bunch that looks like baby green carpet

09/25/2010, 08:05 AM	#8
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	ah still kinda a noob but what else could it be? was sold to me as a morph but not like anything i have seen __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/25/2010, 08:16 AM	#10
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	lfs is fairly useless even by my standards. i will try to get a better shot of it tomorrow oce the lights are on it may expand more, might poke it to see if it reacts (are carpets the same as btas? poke and they retract) it has a foot like base almost as big as the head is in the photo. had to be collected in australian waters as importation of corals is illegal. __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/25/2010, 08:23 AM	#12
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	corellamorph __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/25/2010, 08:30 AM	#14
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	i shall just wait to see if it opens more. i have never seen one that colour though. __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/25/2010, 06:30 PM	#15
shutiny Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Pacific Grove, CA Posts: 930	I believed you have a juv Stichodactylade sp. I have seen 6 or 8 off springs from my gigantea and haddoni and they look just like that after a month or so. Not sure how old the specimen you have but it looks like a well developed " baby carpet". I have some pics in my data base at home and let me see if I could find my pictures so that we could do a comparison.

09/25/2010, 06:33 PM	#16
Gary Majchrzak Team RC Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 41,560	shutiny- were any of your offspring the result of budding? __________________ over 24 years experience with multiple types of marine aquarium systems see Upstate Reef Society Forum on RC and FB GOOGLE JUNIOR'S REEF Current Tank Info: 84x24x30 265g reef past TOTM honors

09/25/2010, 07:57 PM	#17
shutiny Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Pacific Grove, CA Posts: 930	Gary, I did have a mertensii "bud", but I also had one haddoni, and a gigantea gave live birthes. I remembered that Cindy( she frag'd her H.magnifica in 06?) posted my pitures on RC a few years back.

09/26/2010, 01:17 AM	#18
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	awesome would love it if you could find those pics __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/26/2010, 04:50 PM	#19
shutiny Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Pacific Grove, CA Posts: 930	Here is the gigantea: These are what I have in my photobucket on line, but will get the S.haddoni pics(from my server) when I get home next Tu.

09/27/2010, 11:30 AM	#20
bues0022 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 2,230	At that size, and knowing what is more/less common, to me it looks more like a small toadstool leather than an anemone.

09/27/2010, 03:40 PM	#21
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	oh well i shall let it grow and see what it turns out as __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

09/27/2010, 04:07 PM	#22
Scott-CapeCoral Registered Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Cape Coral, Florida Posts: 590	Hope it turns out to be impressive for you. I don't understand why someone would collect that little guy though. May I ask what you paid for this unknown ? __________________ I stay out of trouble by telling my fiance that corals cost $5.00 each. "Awe, yea, it was 5 bucks." When life hands you skittles... Throw them at random people and scream "TASTE THE FREAKEN RAINBOW!" Proud brother of a U.S. Soldier. Current Tank Info: 2 side by side 57g Oceanic Illuminata's. Reef Octopus 3000 XP Cone. Each tank has a 250w Radium with t5 retro's. Reeflo Dart powering both tanks and accessories

09/27/2010, 06:05 PM	#23
Mirror Pond Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 354	Is that the bottom of a larger carpet anemone that it is attached to?

09/28/2010, 04:27 AM	#25
Giglamesh Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 354	5 bucks... was the cost but i bought some other things so it was basically thrown in __________________ 3 foot shallow, rimless, led lit reef Current Tank Info: shallow 3 foot

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