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03-31-2005, 08:54 PM
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Plankton
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Please identify for me.
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03-31-2005, 09:02 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Looks like Aipastia to me... Good or not I think they are ugly and I nuked em with joes juice
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03-31-2005, 09:29 PM
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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03-31-2005, 09:40 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Alabama
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This fellow was on the very first LR I purchased over two years ago. He was very tiny then. Also was a few of the Aipastia, which I got rid of with pickling lime shots. It has taken this one two years to get this size and has never offered to multiply. It has been on the same rock all the time and the polyps was added one and a half years ago. Don't seen to bad to me and is really very colorful, unlike the pix. Thanks.
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03-31-2005, 09:51 PM
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BIG SMELLY MOD
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Aipastia I don't know for sure I have never ran across any that looked like that. I can't say for sure.
Vince
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03-31-2005, 10:01 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
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looks more like a button polyp of some sort. If you mess with it does it retract into a hole or just roll into itself? I've never read about an aiptasia looking like that.
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03-31-2005, 10:04 PM
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Wants a Howitzer
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yeah, i can only point to that article with the pic.
basically, 'pest' is anything that is destructive to the things in your tank that you like, is a headache to get rid of and usually multiplies rapidly smothering anything in its path in a bad way.
some say the same for mushrooms and xenia...
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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03-31-2005, 10:09 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
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You could always do a taste test and let us know what type of toxicity reaction you get. That could help narrow things down a little.
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03-31-2005, 10:12 PM
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Wants a Howitzer
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perhaps you could construct a large wooden badger
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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04-01-2005, 02:42 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
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I have a large one already. Two would just be trouble.
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04-01-2005, 03:25 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Alaska
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That does not look any aptasia I have ever seen, I vote polyp, I think it looks coool.
Besides if you had an aptasia that big next and that close to any corals I doubt they would be even open...
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04-01-2005, 07:40 AM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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it looks like a rose or rock anenome to me, i had one for a while. does it ball up if you touch the center? have you seen it eat anything?
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04-01-2005, 08:04 AM
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Banggai Mommy
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Orlando, FL
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I don't think it's an aip either... what about a slow-growing discosoma mushroom? Those are cool, and they've never overrun my tank. (I have, like, 2 of them.)
Could also be an anemone... some of them don't wander much.
Danielle
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04-01-2005, 02:17 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Alabama
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When a crab gets near or touches it, it closes like a shroom. I guess it does it eating from plantco which I use weekly. The colors are actually brighter than the pic shows.
He certainly does not bother anything. Thanks.
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04-01-2005, 03:07 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: alaska
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hey adam shayne has a white one that looks similar
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