Help this new girl out with iding please!!!

[bec1750]

Need help iding what ever these are that came in on our mushroom and zoas today. I just looked at everything with the lights off and a flash light and saw what appears to be pest on our new mushroom and zoas. I believe on the mushroom that is a vermetid snail but not sure what else appears to be coming out of the bottom, worms? Also what is that one our zoas? I don’t think it’s apastasia but not sure what it is. Sorry for the bad pics but they are the best I could get right now. I also took two vids to see if that would be better for iding them. Thanks for your help!!

 

[tbrown]

If you're talking about the bubbles, those are bubble algae.

 

[bec1750]

If you're talking about the bubbles, those are bubble algae.

Nope not talking about the bubbles. Are the videos viewable at all that I attached? If so if you look at the mushroom video there’s like what looks to be worms or like a ton of bristle star legs coming out of the bottom/underneath the mushroom. But I can’t tell what it is.

the stuff on the closed up zoa I think maybe tiny tiny feather dusters but not sure.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I see a bunch of closed up zoas at night im guessing. Lol.
What ur describing is a brittle star leg.
Hths
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[tbrown]

Hard to tell from the video. Looks like either a brittle star or maybe an aiptasia.

 

[bec1750]

I see a bunch of closed up zoas at night im guessing. Lol.
What ur describing is a brittle star leg.
Hths
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Here I took pics on the vid and circled it for ya. I’m more worried about the worm like thing on the mushroom than I am on the zoas. I think the zoas may be baby feather dusters but not sure.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I think ur correct. On both. Feather duster on zoas. Aptasia on mushroom disc
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[tbrown]

The ones on the Zoas are hard to see. They might be small feather dusters or ball anemones.

 

[bec1750]

I think ur correct. On both. Feather duster on zoas. Aptasia on mushroom disc
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Ahhh so apastasia stuck like under the mushroom? For some reason I didn’t think that. I thought a worm or something else. Probably because of only seeing the like end part and not being able to see a stem. When we take it out in the morning how do I kill apastasia on it?

how would I tell the difference between a ball nem and a feather duster? It seems to have a brown inner ring which is what was making me lean towards feather duster.

 

[bec1750]

The ones on the Zoas are hard to see. They might be small feather dusters or ball anemones.

Meant to quote you in the above post about the ball nem/feather duster

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Ur best bet is to google img and compare.
The aptasia i would say take some bone cutters and cut the disc its on. It will most likely break up into multiple pieces allowing u to remove the piece with aptasia on it and keep the mushroom. Hths
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[tbrown]

Ahhh so apastasia stuck like under the mushroom? For some reason I didn’t think that. I thought a worm or something else. Probably because of only seeing the like end part and not being able to see a stem. When we take it out in the morning how do I kill apastasia on it?

how would I tell the difference between a ball nem and a feather duster? It seems to have a brown inner ring which is what was making me lean towards feather duster.

Ball anemones look like little anemones with balls at the tips of their tentacles. Feather dusters usually have a tube and are feathery. There's a possibility that they could be hydroids, but it looks more like a feather duster or ball anemone to me.

Like @monkeyCmonkeyDo said, googling them will give you a pretty good idea if it's what you have. You can see them better in your tank than we can in the pictures so we're just kind of guessing. Hopefully it helps get you the answers you need though!

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I call ball anenomes strawberry anenomes. Lol
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[tbrown]

Ahhh so apastasia stuck like under the mushroom? For some reason I didn’t think that. I thought a worm or something else. Probably because of only seeing the like end part and not being able to see a stem. When we take it out in the morning how do I kill apastasia on it?

how would I tell the difference between a ball nem and a feather duster? It seems to have a brown inner ring which is what was making me lean towards feather duster.

And after looking a little closer, if there are stripes on the things under the mushrooms, I'd say more than likely it's brittle stars.

 

[tbrown]

I call ball anenomes strawberry anenomes. Lol
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I actually kinda like the way they look. I don't want them in my tank now, but I had them in my last tank in the sump. They stayed out of my DT.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

I like them. They are beautiful. Never got out of control for me. I didnt put coral right next to em though of course. Lol
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