Aiptasia zoanthid morph?!?!

nolen502 · Sep 9, 2011

So i have this zoa colony that has a good bit of aiptasias growing within it. A few days ago i tried combating the problem with liquid calcium which needless to say had very little effect on my problem, but in the past few days on of the zoas turned into this thing...Anyone ever seen something like this?

Its the one in the center with that aiptasia like tentacle and green center

Akwarius · Sep 9, 2011

Hard to say from the blurry pic but it looks like a palythoa sp.

Supreme Reefs · Sep 9, 2011

Could be a shrunken tentacle majano iv seen a lot of those on the zoa rocks

Dave3112 · Sep 9, 2011

Bn251 said:
Could be a shrunken tentacle majano iv seen a lot of those on the zoa rocks

++1

Alistar · Sep 22, 2011

Wow, that's weird...

jarred1 · Sep 25, 2011

I think it looks like a palythoa.

doughboy · Sep 25, 2011

I had a zoa colony on a frag I got from someone that turned out to have aiptasia growing out of it. was wondering how to remove the aiptasia without cutting up the colony. I saw my lfs selling peppermint shrimp so I got one to see if it will work. I put the frag in a small tank by itself and the peppermint shrimp. I think it took about a week, but eventually the shrimp ate all the aiptasias. as to that half zoa half aiptasia thing, if it does not retract completely when you touch it, then its not aiptasia.