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[easternreefer]

 

[easternreefer]

sorry for the blue.. and the poor quality of the phone pics

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

First two are a type of zoa
3rd maybe sponge
4th is a mushroom
5th looks like green star polyp

 

[easternreefer]

thanks.. the possible Zoas are so bleached/white that I wasn't sure what they might be.. they were on the bottom of some rock I purchased..

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

thanks.. the possible Zoas are so bleached/white that I wasn't sure what they might be.. they were on the bottom of some rock I purchased..

Just give the zoas some time. As long as you see them open then the should recover.

 

[easternreefer]

they are opening.. they were so tight when I first found them that I thought they might be a tunicate.. but then they started to open a bit.. the third picture is a single polyp a few inches down from the other cluster and I can see just a little bit of some fringe.. getting a pinkish color on some now that they have had some light.. it will be interesting to see what they end up being.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

With the green star polyp, just watch it. They spread really fast and can take over a tank very easily. We have some we keep growing on our overflow where we can control it with no other rocks near it. Oh and they like medium to high flow.

 

[easternreefer]

it is actually on a single rock just under my overflow...This is going to be a softy tank.