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Old 02-11-2013, 11:37 PM
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I have this green zoa type thing growing in the middle of a colony of zoas. does anybody know what it is? Kinda looks like a short green paly. If its bad can I just cut it out? and sorry for the ****ty iphone pics.
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Old 02-11-2013, 11:46 PM
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Looks like the palys I fragged out of my watermelons
Mine were getting too big and shading the zoas, so they went on their own rock

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Old 02-11-2013, 11:47 PM
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That looks like Aptasia, join the club. It's one of our most common enemies.

It could be a lone Pally but I doubt it.
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It's not aptasia. For one, aptasia is brown. Not green.

Definitely looks like some sort of polyp/paly got in the middle of your frag. Common for frags to touch in the LFS and possible it attached there.

I had some from red coral that had a stray polyp. Too bad it killed the polyps I bought. And spread like dandelions.
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Old 02-12-2013, 12:07 AM
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That looks like Aptasia, join the club. It's one of our most common enemies.

It could be a lone Pally but I doubt it.
Really looks like a paly.
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Old 02-12-2013, 12:08 AM
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There just a common green Paly Chris.
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Old 02-12-2013, 12:18 AM
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It's not aptasia. For one, aptasia is brown. Not green.
Google Aptasia images and you'll see many different colors and shapes. Green, pink, and brown seem to be the most common colors. Others are even very patterned. Some have short tentacles while others are quite long.

My bet is that is an Aptasia that is semi-retracted because its surrounded by zoanthids.

Polyp, Pally, or Aptasia, I would zap it ASAP.
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Old 02-12-2013, 12:23 AM
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looks like a little majano. i have them in my gsp. glow green under actinic lights. they look cool but sting as far as i can tell. no gsp opens there. and the "majanos" move every once and a while.
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Old 02-12-2013, 12:28 AM
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this is mine. like i said, glows SUPER green. but they move and breed! i say majano?

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Google green palythoa people, thats what they are.
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