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Unread 06/17/2018, 01:50 AM   #1
Radizh
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What is this?

Hello I've noticed this little mushroom looking thing growing on my rock and have no idea what it is. It's only a few millimetres so it was hard to get a proper picture of it.

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Unread 06/17/2018, 05:38 AM   #2
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A closer picture would certainly help, but I'm leaning towards a pest anemone - either aiptasia or mojano, but it could just as easily be a bleached out zoanthid of some sort.


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Unread 06/17/2018, 02:52 PM   #3
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I'm going to second Billdogg; if I squint without my glasses up close, I see tentacles.


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Unread 06/17/2018, 05:26 PM   #4
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Hey,

Thanks for the replies, I took the rock out of the tank and put it in a container with some of the water so I can get a better shot, the end of it hasn't come out all the way and is usually more flat.

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Unread 06/17/2018, 07:43 PM   #5
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It looks a bit like a small tube anemone, but it's hard to be sure about such small creatures.


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Unread 06/19/2018, 06:21 AM   #6
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might also be a tunicate, but I'm still just guessing. any possibility of getting a closer look?


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