Hitchhiker ricordia
 

Hey everyone.

So I believe I may have a hitchhiker ricordia growing out of a hole in some live rock. Its not really in the light but the tips seem to be they appear to be orange- I would say the whole piece looks brown to orange. I cannot completely identify it as ricordia yet because it is fairly small. Basically my question is what are the care requirements for ricordia? Do they have similar needs to zoos and mushrooms? THis is what I am keeping. Could my other corals and the ricordia fight eachother?

Thanks for the help.

Ricordia does not usually hitchike, but more than likely you have Aiptasia.

I have seen apstasia and the thing is this looks almost like a zoanthid head- and it has a bunch of small tentacles on around a few center tentacles these tentacles look more like frogspawn or anenome tentacles. Roundish and jellow like.

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Its not out of the relm of possibility that you could have a surprise ricordia. Does it have bulbous polyps or are they some other shape? That's how I usually tell.

they seem bubblous. But its not like they start at a smaller root to become a larger bubble at the very end. Its more like the same thickness all the way along the tentacle but it looks like jello, kinda bubbly. Also it appears brown- can there be brown ricordia?

Sounds a lot like a majano anemone. Try googling for more pictures, but here is a pretty good shot of one:

http://www.poseidonsrealm.com/majano.jpg

If it is Riccordia, give the more intense lighting of the tank, with moderate/strong, INDIRECT flow. Where'd the LR come from?

I think its Jakarta- came from Little Oceans

Update- So I turned on a light a few hours after my tank lights went off. I looked at this creature and now all of a sudden in the darkness it seems the bubbly tentacles all became thin (hairlike) which made it appear to look like a zooanthid. This is really confusing now because what could be changing like this? I looked at it again this morning an hour after the lights came on and again it is all bubbly.

The tentacles look alot like that. I cant tell if it is that because right now its so small it just looks like a polyp of something.