ID Please - Friend or Foe?

[Reef Puffer]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Google green palythoa people, that what they are.

are mine the same? they move around? maybe mine are just different then? they sure look the same.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by Madmak

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.

It's not aptasia. And if anyone has pics of their aptasia that are pink or green, I Would love to see it. Brown is what you see first hand In tanks 99% of the time. The 1% I have made up as after doing tank maintenance I have never seen anything but brown so the possibility had to be rare.

Things on google are often photoshopped. Like the corals people buy online then are surprised its different once it arrived.


No offense meant, but it's not aptasia. It definitely is a paly of some sort. If you look at the oral disc it is very obvious.

[Madmak]

The OP is the only one who can see it clear enough to tell.

I'll be wrong, you can be right.

[albert_dao]

You guys are all wrong.

It's an exalted neon dragon breath gobstopper and it's probably worth $75/molecule. I'd frag and cultivate ASAP.

*But on a more serious note, it's probably just a solitary protopaly. They sting weaksauce corals like zoas, eat food out of the water column and can SLOWLY reproduce... Kill it if you must, just make sure you don't... you know, kill yourself doing it.

[spit.fire]

I have one in my tank, I just left it. It's like playing where's Waldo trying to find it again