ID Please.....

[messiah023]

Hello everyone.
I put a new rock in my tank a few months back and it had a couple hitchhikers. I am not exactly sure what they are, but I have some ideas, thought I would ask the experts. When I got the rock, these were very, very small....now they are HUGE!

Picture #1. I thought Xenia....

Picture #2 & #3 : I am giving you the top & bottom shots of this. I initially thought mushroom or ricorda, but I saw a picture of a caribbean carpet anemone and it looked close.....you guys know, so clue me in.

 

[daugherty]

maybe some kind of glove polyp or xenia?
as for the second i do not know

 

[cthegame]

First pic i think it might be some kind of polyp...not sure. Second pic i think its some kind of mushroom...also not sure.

Someone here probably will know.

 

[jhnrb]

Xenia and mushroom. congrats on the hitchhikers. nice score.

 

[messiah023]

Would this be considered a "hairy mushroom"?
Definitely convinced it's xenia.

Thanks!

 

[jhnrb]

most likely

 

[Bifferwine]

Hairy mushroom or frilly mushroom.

 

[reeffreak]

The first is anthelia and not xenia because they are growing as a group of individual polyp.The second is a rhodactis mushroom/anemone or hairy mushrooms is what many like to call them.

 

[Doc]

I agree with Dominick. Clove polyps and a fuzzy mushroom. both a great beginning corals and will grow like crazy if the tank conditions are good. Great luck!

-Doc

 

[Bifferwine]

I also think the first one is clove polyps and not xenia.

 

[Doc]

yeah, Reeffreak pretty much rocks....

-Doc

 

[reeffreak]

Actually,I had to go back to my coral book for this one.Anthelias and many of the clove/glove polyps belong to the xeniidae family....so everyone is right.

....but most hobbyist do call them clove/anthelia because of there growth pattern and because they don't pulse.

 

[Doc]

I should buy a coral book. I don't have one. But Reef, you still are still a stud....:mrgreen::mrgreen:

-Doc