tiny mystery soft

[EvilVOG]

Getting this tank back together after a series of disasters. Basically the only things i thought were living were my 2 Ocelleris, a couple hermit crabs and many, many bristle worms. So i brought home some new snails, a couple Florida ricordea, and a Bubble tip that i probably shouldn't have bought. The bubble tip melted immediately. Flash forward about a week and a half and i find this thing living in a dark hole in my rock. a few days later and i think there are at least a dozen. So small that you can't hardly see or photograph. This is the biggest one i first noticed, and i think it's the biggest since some food landed there when i first noticed it, and i did spot feed it some plankton. good or bad doesn't matter as a new tank is coming. Colors in real life are gold and green under the blue light, photo is with a purple UV flashlight on it since it's hiding in a dark hole.

 

[fragit]

Need a clearer photo

 

[BitFix]

Pretty sure it's a feather duster.

 

[flsalty]

Hard to tell from that pic but looks like a ball anemone (Corynactis sp)

 

[elysics]

The green glow pattern and it living in the shadows like you described makes me think of corynactis. The image is blurry, does it have tentacles at its rim like a zoa, but with a ball at the very end?

 

[EvilVOG]

tried to get some daylight pics, but they're even harder to photograph with the lights on. clear body, definate "mouth" lots of dots/balls in a fairly regular pattern from around the center radiating out to what appear to be tentacles. does look Nem or Mushroom/ Ricordea in appearance. will shrivel at times like a nem. plus i found a couple more larger ones this morning.

the tiny ones are mostly on the sand bottom in full lighting, but the size of a pin head. going to try and keep spot feeding them so maybe i can get a better photo.

looking at other photos ball nem seems right. Will have to do some reading

 

[fragit]

Agree sounds like a ball nem, possibly curlicue nem too but hard to tell from photo

 

[EvilVOG]

update on the potential dozens of ball nems. They are everywhere. I find more every day but they are hard to see. Not sure all of these could have come just in the last 3 weeks, but idk. pictures are still terrible but here's some daylight pics of a couple, using a flashlight because the bigger ones are all in the worst possible spots, and you wouldn't really see the ones in the open very well as they are living directly on the sand.

New tank arrives tuesday and i'm so not ready. I live in a terrible location for saltwater supplies.

 

[sfin52]

Ball anemone