Anenome ID on gulf live rock

danielankeny · Mar 30, 2023

Hello again friends!

can anyone ID this anemome. It’s about time size in diameter, with greenish-bluish bands on the appendages. On new gulf live rock in QT tank.

thanks as always!!

Rugops · Mar 30, 2023

aiptasia.

Reefing102 · Mar 30, 2023

Agreed. Looks like Carribean Aiptasia

bradleym · Mar 30, 2023

On gulf rock it is more likely to be a light bulb anemone.

danielankeny · Mar 30, 2023

Obviously hoping it's not aiptaisia, so to avoid the risk should I just eliminate it?

GatorGreg · Mar 30, 2023

the aptasia is a P.I.T.A ……..it is. I got some off of my ocean rock too. Both Aussie and Gulf…so it’s not just gulf rock. But I still love my ocean rock and the experience has been way more pleasant than the sterile environment some people prefer to create.

GatorGreg · Mar 30, 2023

I bought pico packs of all my rock so all of my rocks are small and stackable and manageable. I don’t have to break my whole scape apart to pull some rocks. When I see one creeping on a come up. I reach in and pull the rock out and cut the sum beech off with my knife and dig out the area that was underneath him to get the foot out.

vetteguy53081 · Mar 30, 2023

danielankeny said:
Hello again friends!

can anyone ID this anemome. It’s about time size in diameter, with greenish-bluish bands on the appendages. On new gulf live rock in QT tank.

thanks as always!!

Aptasia . Keep removal simple:
Using syringe, inject either lemon juice or better yet. . kalkwasser powder mixed with tank water into a paste the consistency of toothpaste and inject into the very center core and it will melt away

wtdenk · Mar 30, 2023

Lightbulb anemone. I decided to keep the one I got on my piece of gulf rock. Been a bit short of a year now. Might be my favorite creature in either of my tanks. I feed it LPS pellets and mysis. Went from the size of a dime and now is the size of a baseball.

danielankeny · Mar 31, 2023

I think it looks identical to some pics of Caribbean aiptasias I found online. I glued the bejeezus out of it.

neonreef3d · Mar 31, 2023

The dreaded Aptasia lives up to its name. I had an infestation of hundreds in my sps display. The local LFS @GoldenStateCorals had some burgiahs and so I picked some up. 2 months later the aptasia were all gone, the burgiahs were breeding in my tank, and so I would look at the mesh sock and remove dozens every other day, and was able to sell some, and give a bunch away!!

The only solution for this aptasia problem is the burgiah nudi brach. They are efficient and work as a team to take down those 2"+ mother aptasias.

I was very impressed using this solution, I started with 8 burgiahs, ended up removing easily over 3 dozen of them so far. I found more in the mesh sock today, so they are still active in the tank. Im guessing there is no more aptasia, and so they end up in the overflow at the end of the day.

happyhourhero · Apr 5, 2023

That’s not the kind that really spread much. I’ve had one on a gulf rock for 2 years. No others have shown up.

danielankeny · Apr 8, 2023

I’ll try again later, i know a bit blurry and bad angle but…anemone or aiptasia

happyhourhero · Apr 9, 2023

Light bulb anemone

Sump Crab · Apr 9, 2023

Is this from gulfliverock.com

danielankeny · Apr 9, 2023

Yes it is! Beautiful rock x 2 orders!

Sump Crab · Apr 9, 2023

Did you get any corals? I clicked on your build and didn’t see pics of your live rock!

Seansea · Apr 9, 2023

Thats a light bulb. Aptasia dont get bubbles like that

encrustingacro · Apr 9, 2023

Exaiptasia diaphana probably. I asked a taxonomist about “light bulb anemones” and he said they were all Exaiptasia, and the name “light bulb anemone” came from a field guide by Humann and Deloach that was rife with misidentifications. He also said that Exaiptasia (commonly called Aiptasia by aquarists) DOES occur in the Gulf of Mexico.