Candy Apple Red Zoas question

[Tonii]

Good evening guys,

Just picked up a small colony of what the guy said were candy apple red zoas. The guy said that he had neglected them for the past few weeks. I added them to my tank last night and when I woke up this morning I noticed that a bunch of them had a long tongue sticking out and my hermit crab were all over them. In the picture where the arrow is pointing it shows a lot of tongue tangled together. Sorry about the picture quality I had to take it with my phone.

Is that normal or should I take them out of the tank?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Animagus]

It's kind of hard to tell from that picture, but if I had to guess I would go with an Aiptasia. (not good)

 

[Tonii]

I already had some aiptasia in my tank and it doesn't look like that. This are red long strings coming out of the center of the polyps.

 

[Animagus]

Maybe a Terebellid worm? This is a shot in the dark btw, being that your picture is not showing up for me now.

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker.shtml

 

[Tonii]

It doesn't look like terebellid worm. It was something like a tongue coming out from the mouth of the zoas. Just got back from the store and whatever it was its gone

 

[mfinn]

Really need to get a picture that's in focus.

 

[Pg513]

Maybe expelling zooxanthellae.

 

[Mattrg02]

Majano anemone?

 

[Tonii]

Pg513 I googled zoa expelling zooxanthellae and it looks just like that. Is that bad or normal?

 

[rock_lobster]

It is normal when changing tank sand lighting.. Its how they adjust.

 

[Vaughn17]

Going number two?

 

[Tonii]

Ok cool thanks. I was starting to get worried because I was reading online that some do that when they are dying.