tiny hitchhikers - good or bad?

[tebstan]

I had some stuff shipped to me. At the bottom of the bag, there were a few bright dots that I thought were polyps that had fallen off the rock I'd ordered. I picked them up and dipped them along with the main colony, then put them in a little box to see what would happen.

This is what I've got. Itty bitty anemone things. The biggest one is the diameter of the top tip of a battery.

They're cute. But are they friend or foe? I suspect they may be majanos, but wanted another opinion. I hate to flush living critters, especially cute ones. They're more colorful than other majanos I've seen, and have a thicker foot.

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/AnemoneHitchhikerA3-24-11.jpg

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/AnemoneHitchhikerB3-24-11.jpg

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/AnemoneHitchhikerC3-24-11.jpg

Top down look at the biggest one:
http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/AnemoneHitchhikerAtopdown3-24-11.jpg

Another one (I think) still attached to the rock:
http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/Anemonehitchhiker3-24-11.jpg




Another something attached to the rock. A different species, looks less menacing:
http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/rockanemonehitchhiker3-24-11.jpg


In the outer edge of that last pic you can see the thing I actually ordered. I'm always so much more intrigued by the hitch hikers.

[Mr Cob]

they all look like majano to me, the ones I have seen have always been super cool unlike some of the common ones I've seen posted on MAAST in the last few months....easy to remove in a few numbers but of course once they take foot...fo'get about'it....

[tebstan]

they all look like majano to me

Dang. Even this one?



http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/rockanemonehitchhiker3-24-11.jpg




They're so cool looking. Nothing like the majanos I erradicated in some other tank...

I may have to set up a majano pico. :D

[tebstan]

Majanos are fast and sneaky. I had them quarantined in a little box with a screen top. They crawled all over that box looking for an escape. I should have gotten a pic when I saw them hanging on the screen, but I was too worried they'd squeeze through so took quick action to remove them.

One of the little unknown polyps wasn't on the move... since it appears stationary its granted a reprieve - for now. I'll keep a close eye on it. That's this one:
http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/rockanemonehitchhiker3-24-11.jpg


One of the mystery polyps is definitely an LPS. I almost killed it. Thinking it was a majano I was going to scrape it off. When I felt the skeleton, I left it alone for a few days. It has a skeleton structure like a torch or bubble coral. It's smaller than an eraser hear. Hope it grows into something cool.

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/LPhitchhiker3-24-11.jpg

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss9/TebstansTank/Hitch%20Hikers/LPHitchHiker3-30-11.jpg
ignore the giant blenny turd...

[profntbtr]

actually that looks much like a blastomussa of some sort, referring to the lps next to the giant blenny turd i'm supposed to ignore.