Please help identify..

[S.A.M.]

Thanks for all the inputs everyone. I am learning as I go with this hobby.

Here's a picture of the tank and you can see the piece of rock that I have cleaned with boiling water. It's the one at the bottom right that is in lighter green color.


DSC00011 by turbododge2002, on Flickr

I have another question. Bellow is my Green Star Polyp in sleeping mood. I have noticed a few white egg shaped white thing on it. Is this normal part of the coral?


DSC00007 by turbododge2002, on Flickr


DSC00010 by turbododge2002, on Flickr

Thank you.....

Shane

[matinbc]

They look to me like sponges... They are fine.. try not to hurt them too much as they could release toxins into the water. But I am sure someone else will chime in and have more info. I like sponges too cause they help clean the water...

[H22_TURBO]

they look like pineapple sponges to me, good filter feeders

[MKLKT]

Originally Posted by S.A.M.

The piece of rock that it's on is not very big. I have removed the rock with the Aiptasia out of the tank. Very slowly of course. The Zoa is very new and its not fully attached to the rock yet. I have cut the Zoa in half and remove the half that is further away from the Aiptasia.

The rock and the Aiptasia is now sitting in a pot of boiling water. I will boil this for a few minutes and hopefully this will kill everything on the rock....

Boiling zoas is a bad idea! Read the first stickied post in the forums. Whether it's true or not there have been reports of at least one person getting brutally ill from inhaling the airborne toxin from boiling a zoa colony. Not all will contain it, but it's not worth the risk.

Aiptasia are not worth having around... those little pineapple sponges are great though. My sump has plenty of those.