Any idea what this colorful thing could be?

[HB AL]

Was feeding fish and had the pumps off and in the process I spotted this little thing on the rock, seems like 2 or 3 green and orange, in between the lobo and the Xenia. Doesn't seem to be moving and have no coral that has that coloration. It's up high in the tank on a rock in the back. About the size of half a pencil eraser. Really stumped.

 

[LetItReef]

Rock nems?

 

[HB AL]

Don't have any. Now I'm gonna be obsessed ( checking it every 5 minutes ) with it hoping it keeps growing and figure out what it is.;Woot

 

[BlueCursor]

It's a gift from the reef gods. Gently feed it some mysis 2x/week to get that nem to grow. As it gets bigger, switch to pieces of silverback.

 

[HB AL]

10 days have passed since I spotted these things, they are getting bigger and clearly are 4 of them. Since they are a little bigger I was able to get some better close up pics. Anyone 100 % sure of what they could be?

 

[MiguelCS71]

Definitely looking like Rock Nems! Lucky...

 

[MiguelCS71]

Loving the way that Superman monti looks btw. Wish my Mystics polyps protruded like that!

 

[Wh00pS32]

Any tentacles? just wondered if they could be devonshire cup coral?.

Not my pic, just one i pulled from google images.

 

[HB AL]

Any tentacles? just wondered if they could be devonshire cup coral?.

Not my pic, just one i pulled from google images.

There so small still it's hard to tell. Just gonna act like they are not there and hope they keep growing.

 

[Bdog4u2]

Not a rock flower anemone but as someone noted above it is indeed a cup coral. still a good score as they are mostly harmless

 

[HB AL]

Loving the way that Superman monti looks btw. Wish my Mystics polyps protruded like that!

Not a super man, it's a branching montipora.

 

[Dugless]

Looks maybe like blastomussa to me.

 

[HB AL]

So these things are still going, they seem to have maxed out on how big they get but are doing good, and are really colorful. Still leaving the rock they are on where it's been since I found them growing. They have grown a bit and from a different angle I can see a couple more tiny ones sprouting, I guess time will tell what they definitely could be. I have been squirting some aiptaisa x on the pulsing Xenia close to them to keep it from encroaching too much on them.

 

[Ty Hamatake]

Blasto?

 

[reef lover]

I think it looks like a blasto too...is there skelelton under the polyps??

 

[HB AL]

From what I can tell there is no hard skeleton they are growing from.

 

[reef lover]

Interesting.... Well have to watch it grow...

 

[Tautog]

It's not a rock nem, but looks more like a blasto

 

[greenhorn reefer]

Ultra rock flower? Acan?

 

[HB AL]

So I showed the guys at my lfs yesterday the pics, and they said they've never seen those and offered to buy them on the spot, they loved the color, and the fact they hadn't seen those ever. ( I said no )One guy said it's probably a blasto and to touch it lightly on the edge and see if I felt a hard skeleton. So I tried that and felt nothing hard. This morning I blew on them with a turkey baster and got them to shrink up and saw something interesting like what they are growing from. New pics included with the white light turned all the way up showing what they seem to be growing out of, the blackish stuff connecting them all. Gonna go down to the lfs to see what they say. I think these new photos might finally get one of you guys that have seen it all help in making possibly a positive idea.