Help to ID

[reeferRob]

Can anyoe help me? I got some (dead white) live rock from a friend who had let a SW tank putrify. I cleaned it and cured it for a couple weeks before putting it in my display and I have found three of these. I have since been told that they had had an aptasia outbreak before they let the tank go.

Thanks!

Rob

[beareef19]

when they retract do they dissapear or do they have a small flat skeleton where the mouth is . I got some rock from Fla and it has small tenticaled corals havent been able to ID them yet.
Barry

[reeferRob]

when they retract do they dissapear or do they have a small flat skeleton where the mouth is . I got some rock from Fla and it has small tenticaled corals havent been able to ID them yet.
Barry

When they retract it looks like the hard skeleton of a candy cane coral or something, but there really is no tissue just the tentacles at least as far as I can see.

Yeah I don't believe it is fiji rock, this rock is dense and heavy and covered in barnacles

[reeferRob]

Also it doesn't seem to be mobile like an aptasia, the skeleton is fused to the rock like a coral

[reeferRob]

http://www.atlantisaquarium.net/LPSofties1.html

Check out the second pic from the left on this page at the Rhyzo $600 :o

[MattK]

I just saw one of these on WWM last night (MAAST was down had to get a fix).
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/lridfaq2.htm

There is a better pic and description of one on WWM somewhere in the hitchhiker section. I just don't have the time to find it right now.