Gonzobob Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 This is a hitchhiker I found on a coral from AquaSD. It’s about the size of a dime and attached to the rock. My best guess would be a fungia but the small ones I’ve seen (nickel to quarter size) were buds and still had ‘stems’ and to my knowledge don’t attach to rock. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 ooohhh...that's looks nice!! Why are my hitch-hikers always named aiptasia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Hmm.. if it was a fungia, you should be able to poke it/pester it so it retracts it tentacles to see the underlying plate. It looks like some type of anemone, but not one I have seen before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzobob Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 Sorry, should have added that I have gently prodded it and the tentacles do retract leaving a hard structure. Do some of the fungia attach? When I first got it in I did push on it with my finger to see if it would come loose and it seemed quite firmly attached. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesL Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 I haven't heard of fungia attaching to rock work before. Plus the more I look at it, the more I don't think it is a fungia due to the number of tentacles it has. Back to the drawing board... but at least it points to some type of LPS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medi Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 hmm.....got me...but it looks nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innate1 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 It's cool looking kinda looks like a tongue coral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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