Are these RFAs?

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I noticed these a few weeks ago. At first I thought they might be pest palys. My wife took a close up today, and they look like very small rock flower anemones. I have four FRAs in the tank, but none of them are within 15 inches of these little guys. There's about nine of them clustered together as far as I can tell. They're about 1/4 to 1/2 inch across.
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Sorry about the bad photo quality.
 
If the are popping up pretty fast , I would guess apitasia

#reefsquad and thoughts?
 
Majanos? If not, it may be RFA spawns.
 
The outer tentacles do not resemble a RFA in my opinion.

Not sure I agree. While the picture isn’t very clear from the OP, some of the tentacles do seem to resemble those of one of my RFAs in the OP’s second image.

Picture of my RFA
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I have a "zombie" RFA that is 4 to 5 inches across. The color isn't exactly the same, but the physical appearance is very similar. That's why I was wondering if that that might be what they are.
 
My wife Lynna did some extensive research on mojanos. Several pictures looked disturbingly like what I have. Most didn't look anything similar. Sometimes having a world of information is about 9 tenths of a world too much!
 
I’m not to sure on that being a rfa the tentacles just don’t sing rfa and the oral disk area is really different from most rfas I’ve seen. That being said the picture isn’t the best and hope for you it is a rfa and not a manjanos cause they are a pita.
 
As a couple people have said, the photos make a solid ID pretty difficult.

But given that you have 4 RFAs in the tank, baby RFAs is a serious possibility. IMHO the tentacles and oral disks do look enough like some of my RFAs to say it's possible.

How did they get 15 inches away from the potential parents... they floated. When mom spits them out into the water column they are very tiny and have rather neutral buoyancy. So they float around some. Mine end up all over the tank, but I have crazy random flow in my tank. Another place to look is under the disk of the 4 potential parents. Feed them and see if there are any more babies under them when they fold up to capture the food. It's possible the current in your tank carried these all to one place.

How colorful are the 4 RFAs you have? Some have great color and some have very little color other than off white, tan, brown and green (and maybe some black striping). If you have 4 colorful ones, then these babies should have pretty colorful oral disks under blue lights. If the big ones are colorful and the potential babies aren't colorful, they may not be babies at all. But something else. Until I get to see better photos, I give them at 60:40 chance in favor of being babies. But that's just my uneducated, but experienced guess based on pretty poor photos.

Here is what some of mine look like. You can see 5 or 6 babies if you look around.

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Here are a bunch of babies on an old coral skeleton. Click on the link and it will take you to my Flickr account full of anemone photos and some look kind of like yours.

https://flic.kr/p/Lj71w7

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I'll try to get some better pictures tomorrow when the lights are back on. I'll also get a picture of the zombie that's not colorful, but my favorite FRA. Thank you for everyone's attention and advice in working this out.
 
Your 'zombie could be a shallow water RFA. The colorful ones come from deeper water, like 30 to 50 feet. The less colorful ones (but some have cool striping) come from 1 to 10 feet. At least that's what I've always found when I snorkel in the Florida Keys.
 
Could be very well be baby RFAs. RFAs propagate through sexual reproduction and throw out their eggs and sperm into the water column. Their babies can appear anywhere in the tank.

Correction, sperm is ejected in water column and fertilization happens inside female RFA.
 

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