orange with green mouth

[DaBird]

Hi all...does anyone have a guess as to what this might be? It's a hitchhiker on the side of my new Gold Max...

 

[R.yumaDaddy?]

ohh sweeet. Looks like scolymia planulae????

 

[cheeks69]

It may be Blastomussa Wellsi.

 

[R.yumaDaddy?]

I was thinking that but those tentacles are just sooo thick. Plus orange blastos are very uncommon.

 

[lgerold]

You are lucky whatever it is!

 

[cheeks69]

DaBird did you use flash when taking the photo ? Do you notice a skeletal base ? Is it attached to the shell of the Clam ? I'm almost certain it's a Blasto.

 

[R.yumaDaddy?]

feed it and take pics.

 

[billyr98]

cool freebie... hopefully we get it id'ed!

 

[DaBird]

Cheeks, yes I did use a flash, I can't really see any skeletal base, It is attached to the clam shell...

R.yumaDaddy, I fed it and here are the pics. ...

thanks guys for all your help...

 

[DaBird]

I forgot to mention, I fed them Blood worms, they seemed to like em.

 

[DaBird]

Hi today boys and girls, are we going to go with orange Blasto on this hitchhiker then?

 

[R.yumaDaddy?]

Thats definetly a blasto mouth. Scolys have weird "lips". Plus the smooth texture of the inner polyp is condicive of a blasto.

 

[DaBird]

Thanks 'Daddy, thats great news...I'll take real good care of em...:updown: