What’s this zoa looking critter???

[BCSoCal]

I have several of these zoa looking/anenome looking growing in my live rock…any idea what they are?

Thanks!

 

[JGT]

Ball anemone.

 

[neonreef3d]

Majano Anemone (Identification & Removal) | Reef Tank Resource

The Majano Anemone is a type of anemone that is considered to be a pest anemone in the reef-keeping community. It often hitchhikes into aquariums

reeftankresource.com

 

[MaxTremors]

Psuedocorynactis sp. sometimes called a ‘ball anemone’. They are not actually anemones, they are more closely related to mushrooms. They can spread, but IME aren’t invasive like aiptasia or majanos, they can sting other corals (just like any other mushroom). If you want to get rid of it, use the same methods as aiptasia.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I love these guys.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Strawberry nem

 

[sfin52]

I have several of these zoa looking/anenome looking growing in my live rock…any idea what they are?

Thanks!

You actually have 3 in that pic. I've never seen them bother anything and find them in darker areas of the tank

 

[sfin52]

Double post

 

[Chrisv.]

Mine slaughtered a bunch of zoas. Until I nuked them with kalk paste.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

You actually have 3 in that pic. I've never seen them bother anything and find them in darker areas of the tank

I see 4.
This is like where's waldo, lol

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I see 4.
This is like where's waldo, lol

Ok, now I see 5. And what's in the blue area?

 

[BCSoCal]

Thanks everyone, appreciated!

 

[sfin52]

Ok, now I see 5. And what's in the blue area?

Possible sponge

 

[vetteguy53081]

Ball anemones generally dont go around stinging coral or slaughtering zoa.
Ball anemones are actually mushrooms and given the name anemone due to the little balls on the tip.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Ball anemones generally dont go around stinging coral or slaughtering zoa.
Ball anemones are actually mushrooms and given the name anemone due to the little balls on the tip.

...and due to the fact that corallimorphs are Cnidarians that belong to the same Class Anthozoa as sea anemones

 

[vetteguy53081]

...and due to the fact that corallimorphs are Cnidarians that belong to the same Class Anthozoa as sea anemones

Ball Anemone is actually not an anemone at all, it is actually a mushroom coral that is commonly confused too many as a Majano Aiptasia. … The tips if its anemone-like tentacles end with an orange ball tip. Sometimes the tips may look tan, even pink or florescent orange.
Corallimorphus is a genus of colonial anthozoans similar in appearance to sea anemones and in body format to scleractinian stony corals. These animals are cnidarians in the family Corallimorphidae. Members of this order are sometimes called anemone corals but are mushroom corals that resemble anemones more closely than other types of corals due to their large, flat, disc-like shape and short tentacles. They grow like wheel spokes, radiating from a center and forming concentric circles. The diameter of the circle increases as they grow.

 

[MaxTremors]

...and due to the fact that corallimorphs are Cnidarians that belong to the same Class Anthozoa as sea anemones

Anthozoa is a subphylum of the phylum Cnidaria, which has three classes, of which all stony corals, soft corals, and anemones are a member of. True anemones and corallimorphs are both in the Class Hexacorallia (which also includes all stony corals and zoanthids), most soft corals and gorgonians are in the Class Octocorallia, and then there is the Class Ceriantheria which is the tube anemones.

 

[ArachnoJoozt]

Shine a light on it when the lights are off, mine really spread out at night