Something on my Zoa coral!!
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theplantman
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If you can get a better pic, that would be great. It may be a plate coral tree. I had one in my old set up in a zoa colony I bought. The zoas are growing on an old plate coral and the plate keeps popping out babies which will eventually drop off to become full adults. Mine used to produce 2 or 3 at a time.
Does it look like this?
Does it look like this?
If you can get a better pic, that would be great. It may be a plate coral tree. I had one in my old set up in a zoa colony I bought. The zoas are growing on an old plate coral and the plate keeps popping out babies which will eventually drop off to become full adults. Mine used to produce 2 or 3 at a time.
Does it look like this?
That's a cool picture! What do you do in a situation like that? I have both plate corals and zoas and I like them BOTH but I can't imagine them co-existing like that. Would like to know more about plate corals, interesting!
Maybe Robotman will UPdate
theplantman
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I left them alone, they got along very peaceably and the small plates would drop off to the sand bed when they got to be about 1" across. When I bought my piece for the old setup, the plates were not there. After about 2 months the first one popped up and I thought it was some kind of majano, and so did a lot of other people. Everyone said kill it, I liked it and left it alone and after about a month, it started taking shape and I found another reefer that had one as well. They helped me with the ID. These seem to be pretty rare, other than the one I had, I have only seen two others on the forums.
If you still have it, I'd LOVE to see a picture
theplantman
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Unfortunately, that was in my old setup and I gave the piece away when I had to tear down the tank to go to Oklahoma. I will see if I can find an old pic with it in it.
Mike Johnson
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Looks like an Aiptasia to me.
http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/hitchhiker.shtml
http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/hitchhiker.shtml
theplantman
Active Member
found one so far, will see if I can find one of better quality.
Here is another
Here is another
Mike Johnson
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Okay, plantman, I've had baby fungia grow in my tank, too. I was referring to the OP's photo.
theplantman
Active Member
Me too Mike, I was looking at his photo and saw the white variegations in the center and I almost made the mistake of killing my baby fungia because it looked so much like an anemone. The white striping led me away from aptasia. The ops pic is a little dark, its hard to tell if the thing is brown or there is some green coming out in it. A better pic would be helpful if the op can get it.
Mike Johnson
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Okay, again, I agree with everything you've posted. The white strips kind of make me wonder too.
theplantman
Active Member
Robotman,
a telltale sign would be if it has tentacles coming from the central area of the disc, even young fungia plates have these, an aptasia will not, they will only have tentacles around the rim
a telltale sign would be if it has tentacles coming from the central area of the disc, even young fungia plates have these, an aptasia will not, they will only have tentacles around the rim
AC273
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I had/have the same thing with a Zoa colony. I got worried about it and pried it off though, and inadvertently broke it in half. I felt really bad and went total mother hen on it and both halves healed and have grown. It isn't quite round anymore, but the two are getting back to being round. They look exactly like what you have in your pics.
Mike Johnson
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The rest of the story. Thanks for the update. It was identified first, correctly, by plantman here at Reef Sanctuary!
