Possible Aiptasia

[Soup Sandwich]

Hello all,

I am very new to the reefing hobby. After finding R2R while looking for advice for building my 150G freshwater setup I have been bitten by the reef bug. I have changed course and will be making the 150G a reef setup instead of a Discus tank.
However, I couldn’t even wait for the 150 project to be complete so I went ahead and made a 10G into a nano reef until the 150 is ready.
I ordered some coral frags from WWC, one of them being a Xenia who did not survive shipping. With good hopes in mind I put the tremendously weakened Xenia in the tank and removed the parts that died off, which is now just a frag plug. This morning I noticed a very small (about 1/2 the size of a pencil tip) growth off the side of the now otherwise empty frag plug. At first I was excited thinking that a very small part of the Xenia survived but the more I look the more I am thinking it is aiptasia.
Can anybody help confirm before I toss it? There is a very zoomed in picture attached.

 

[lapin]

Could be silver xenia or aiptasia . Cannot tell

 

[JGT]

Yep, aiptasia.

 

[Soup Sandwich]

Thanks for the feedback!

Unfortunately by the time I got home to toss it, it was no longer there. My tank contains 2 small (3/4 inch) clowns and 2 red legged hermit crabs.
Is there any chance the aiptasia was eaten? Or are they capable of moving on their own to a new spot that quickly? I combed every square inch of what I could see in the tank (it’s only a 10g) and I could not find it.

 

[alysak6075]

Thanks for the feedback!

Unfortunately by the time I got home to toss it, it was no longer there. My tank contains 2 small (3/4 inch) clowns and 2 red legged hermit crabs.
Is there any chance the aiptasia was eaten? Or are they capable of moving on their own to a new spot that quickly? I combed every square inch of what I could see in the tank (it’s only a 10g) and I could not find it.

Def not eaten, it moved somewhere better for it. They move FAST, as in several inches a minute when they want to.

 

[PanchoG]

After zooming in, I believe is aiptasia.

 

[Soup Sandwich]

Def not eaten, it moved somewhere better for it. They move FAST, as in several inches a minute when they want to.

Great! The hunt continues..

would you say it is going somewhere better as in terms of flow?

 

[UkiahTheTurtle]

That is a aiptasia

 

[alysak6075]

Great! The hunt continues..

would you say it is going somewhere better as in terms of flow?

Better as in terms of: it gets more light and there are more particulates it can catch while they float by. I have no idea where it went tbh. But i can promise you once it finds a spot it likes, it will multiply.