Help ID

This is in my friends tank and neither of us know what it is, any help would be appreciated.


Thanks

 

Is this coming out of a dead plate coral? A larger picture might help.

 

Yes and these are the only pics I have..

 

It's hard to tell from the picture, but it's either aiptasia or majanos. In either case, not good.

 

I agree with JB---I think its majanos.

 

After googleing majanos, I agree as well.. Thanks for the help.

 

Incorrect. Those are baby fungia corals budding from a dead mother colony. They are neither majano nor aptasia anemones. This is a relatively unique reproductive strategy that is well documented, and can occur some time after the original coral has died. It is considered a rarity.

 

+1 Rdub I had this happen in my tank a few years ago. let it grow and frag them off to allow room for more


side note: anybody want fungia? ive got probably 30 of em from dime sized to pop can size some with double mouths feel free to pm me about it

 

That's interesting to know about the fungia... Never seen that before until now.

@marty: If you were closer, I'd take some. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default//emoticons/sad.gif

 

I have seen this, but usually not quite as populated from the articles that I have read in the past. When I have seen it happen in our tanks, it is a lot fewer.

Can you "break" them off of the plate? if they are actually fungia you should be able to have some type of hard skeleton structure.

 

yeah I let them grow on the "mother" untill I could pop them off with a flat head screw driver

 

Ive never heard or seen anything like it before, Im gonna have to swing by his place and check them out first-hand.. These are just pics he text me and I didnt know what it was.. Here is another pic..
Thanks again

 

I've had that happen on some of my skeletons.... but not near as many as that! That's awesome!

 

Finally found this tread after searching for a while.
Glad I posted this, I told my buddy to throw that thing in the garbage but after reading the reply's on here we realized he had something pretty awesome goin on.. Thanks Rdub, I never got to say that earlier but you were right..
Damn i dont remember how to load a pic in this thread. So Ill start a new thread with the updated pic...
Thanks