Question of the day...what is it?

[MarkLW]

Translucent Anenone.

[mathias]

Check the base and see if it's hard.


I thought this was a family site?





(sorry josh had to do it :) )

[mathias]

that is one cool picture though

[Instar]

Does it have a long stalk or is it coming out of a skeletal base? Looks also like the anemone from Florida known as a Curly Cue. That anemone has white markings and some people and literature confuse it with aiptasia. I haven't seen many of the Curly Cue (que) in recent times if its that. Either way, it doesn't look like a bad thing. You could search for temperate zone anemones and gulf coast anemones. There is some information on the net listing those species.

[Sunhutch]

Yeah I agree with Larry. I have a curly cue and it looks just like the one on your pic.

[rocketeer]

I've got a bunch of those on some Dale Barger Florida aquacultured live rock. I posted the question once and somebody said it looked like Eusmilia Fastiga. I don't know. I've never seen pictures of that. I think it looks like Phyllangia Americana. Eric Bornemen says this is common on both Pacific and Atlantic aquacultured live rock.

Jack

[rocketeer]

They like to be fed brine and mysis shrimp, aposymbiotic. Mine seem to live for long periods of time without being fed though. Maybe they are catching live food.

[alexwolf]

i have 2 that came on some blue zoos from reeftopia.com. They do sting zoos......and they have been alive for about 6 months now and i have never spot fed them.