Found a new ... thing?

[Shawn_epicurious]

My tank is four months old. I have not put any new livestock in my tanks in quite some time now. I just found this guy after a water change (heavy vacuum) I know the pic is bad. I’ve tried a dozen pics... all kinds of lights. These are the best I have been able to come up with. This one is a Little bigger than a pea... and it kinna... glows... no idea what it is

 

[TriggerFinger]

Looks like a couple bleached out zoas. Did you lose part of a frag?

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

Looks like a couple bleached out zoas. Did you lose part of a frag?

No! I’ve never purchase a zoa. Kinna thought it was out of my league. It might have come in on my live rock...? Dunno. Somehow it’s a live and growing...?

 

[TriggerFinger]

Very possible it’s from the live rock. Keep it where you can see it, might turn out to be something really cool!!

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

Looks like a couple bleached out zoas. Did you lose part of a frag?

A zoa? Bleached out... I found it under my rock, in a a cave in my scape... no direct light at all... if it’s a zoa, where should it be?

 

[TriggerFinger]

I would leave it on the sand bed and see what happens.

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

I would leave it on the sand bed and see what happens.

I will. Thank you

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

I have better pics of this little guy now. Is this enough for an ID?

 

[tsouth]

More of a closer resemblance to a mushroom perhaps. Looks like a fleshy, single body. Let it growww! It's too early to tell at the moment

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

More of a closer resemblance to a mushroom perhaps. Looks like a fleshy, single body. Let it growww! It's too early to tell at the moment

I definitely want to let it grow, but I am about to reach a point of impasse. if he grows onto the bigger rock, his very small rock is sitting on...And becomes attached to it... and he ends up needing higher light, or better flow. He is screwed. Right now he is low flow and no direct light.

 

[Mgex]

More of a closer resemblance to a mushroom perhaps. Looks like a fleshy, single body. Let it growww! It's too early to tell at the moment

I second mushroom

 

[roc1hmr]

Yeah looks like a ricordea mushroom. I’d leave it. Free mushroom

 

[DeniseAndy]

Looks like a Ricordia florida. Bleached, but there. Maybe a hitchhiker.

 

[tsouth]

I definitely want to let it grow, but I am about to reach a point of impasse. if he grows onto the bigger rock, his very small rock is sitting on...And becomes attached to it... and he ends up needing higher light, or better flow. He is screwed. Right now he is low flow and no direct light.

So take yourself out of that permanence of a situation and glue it onto a frag plug or a small rock. Keep it mobile, and leave it in low-low medium flow with light in the 100 par range. It's going to take much more time before it shows any appreciated or distaste towards the conditions, at-least two-three weeks? It's only been one week since you discovered it, and you've placed it somewhere that seems proficient. Let it do its thing

On another note, mushrooms can also turn white in very low light, not just bright beaming light. Keep this in mind.

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

So take yourself out of that permanence of a situation and glue it onto a frag plug or a small rock. Keep it mobile, and leave it in low-low medium flow with light in the 100 par range. It's going to take much more time before it shows any appreciated or distaste towards the conditions, at-least two-three weeks? It's only been one week since you discovered it, and you've placed it somewhere that seems proficient. Let it do its thing

On another note, mushrooms can also turn white in very low light, not just bright beaming light. Keep this in mind.

I love when I get a response like this! Simply undeniable logic. Being new at this it never occurred to me to just put it on a plug or a small rock. (Feeling silly now) lol

Thank you!

 

[TriggerFinger]

I love when I get a response like this! Simply undeniable logic. Being new at this it never occurred to me to just put it on a plug or a small rock. (Feeling silly now) lol

Thank you!

It just occurred to me a couple weeks ago to use rubble pieces to glue frags to and I’ve been at this for over a year. Don’t feel bad

 

[tsouth]

I love when I get a response like this! Simply undeniable logic. Being new at this it never occurred to me to just put it on a plug or a small rock. (Feeling silly now) lol

Thank you!

Heard that man - Right there with you. Onwards and upwards friend!

 

[tsouth]

Rare off chance this is a small polyped gonipora

 

[Vdawg1164]

Maybe a cup coral. Is your live rock from Fla.? They lije the underaides of rocks

 

[Vdawg1164]

They like the undersides of rocks. Caves.