First BTA came with.... babies?

[DirtDiggler2823]

Picked up my first BTA today, and noticed a few of these little things on it. Any idea what they are?

 

[BestMomEver]

Dunno what they are but I’m pretty sure they aren’t BTAs. Looks like a pest anemone or type of zoa. I’m not necessarily the person to ask. Someone will come along.

 

[James M]

Form the pics looks like some type of polyp. Can you get a closer or better pic ?

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

Form the pics looks like some type of polyp. Can you get a closer or better pic ?

I'll try to zoom in a bit. They look much different out of the water.

 

[Leslie Tabor]

Definitely not BTA babies...mojanos??

 

[Dom]

FYI: When bubble tips reproduce, they do so by tearing a piece off of the main Nem. Then both pieces heal, and now you have two. They don't have little versions of themselves.

 

[Oldreefer44]

Agree either pest anemone or polyp. Keep an eye on them as you will know one way or the other very soon.

 

[ReefJake123]

Don’t mean to sound like a smart as* or anything but as I was zooming into the photo and seems to have the same tentacles and coloration of a BTA and technically if a BTA is about to die it does a mass spawning of it to ensure it’s genetics survive but that’s the only way they ever spawn

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

They are limited to the rock they came in on, but I can keep an eye on them. There are about 6-7 on the rock. I didn't see any pests in the tank they came from, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

I have syringes and lemon juice if I need to get rid of them.

 

[reef lover]

Look like rock flower nem babies....
Def. not btas. And btas do mass spawn with sperm from males and eggs from females and not only when they're dieing ...

 

[jfree07]

looks to be some sort of pest to me. don't know for sure though

 

[Dsnakes]

Another possibility which is hard to tell from the picture. They could be new heads from the skeleton the BTA is on. Looks like an old Acan colony.

 

[Mical]

Aiptasia

 

[Ligershark]

cant really tell from the photo quality. my guess is orange ball anemone hitchhikers or aiptasia. if theyre aiptasia id try my best to get the nem off the coral skeleton and then toss it.

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

OK, I'll try to get the nem to move, but I'll be nuking these with lemon juice until I can make that happen. The nem seems really happy where it is in the tank.

 

[Leadfooted]

Anyone else think this may be the coral trying to come back to life through the skeleton? I have a Chalice that died and re-grew slowly like this polyp by polyp. I’ll try to find a picture , looks very similar to the shapes of your picture.

 

[Leadfooted]

These are polyps of a Hollywood stunner under Reef Brite XHO. You might have a pest but wanted to share similar shape, just different color.

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

Another possibility which is hard to tell from the picture. They could be new heads from the skeleton the BTA is on. Looks like an old Acan colony.

Aiptasia

cant really tell from the photo quality. my guess is orange ball anemone hitchhikers or aiptasia. if theyre aiptasia id try my best to get the nem off the coral skeleton and then toss it.

Anyone else think this may be the coral trying to come back to life through the skeleton? I have a Chalice that died and re-grew slowly like this polyp by polyp. I’ll try to find a picture , looks very similar to the shapes of your picture.

These are polyps of a Hollywood stunner under Reef Brite XHO. You might have a pest but wanted to share similar shape, just different color.

took a vid of a new creature I just saw, and the polyps that the post was initially intended to identify

 

[DirtDiggler2823]

Injected lemon juice into as many of the polyps that I could find on that rock. We shall see how it goes.