Help Identify - Coral

[Fish Dad]

Hello all - Can you help me identify this.

I have no idea never bough it, was just floating through the tank one day though it was a bright green paly.
Put it in its current spot and now after months it is about size of nickle? but no new heads have formed?

Kind of thinking is not a Paly.... Bright green with yelllow green center.



Couple pic - one open and one of it eating - loves to grab food when feeding the fish...

[Fish Dad]

Pic of it after I feed tank



THANKS

[carlitofish]

looks like a bad anemone.

[PPi]

I agree looks like a strain of a majono anenome. Get rid of it while you can. I made the mistake in thinking it was alright to have a couple here and there when i bought 150lbs of rock. They are little, but pack a huge punch on sps. Worst thing next to hair algae in my opinion. They will detach and find a nice crevasse to settle in or find a nice home on your prized sps and sting the heck out of it. Pretty hard to get rid of once they start multiplying.

[Fish Dad]

OK, I noticed this morning that its got some new growth on bottom - new heads which look exactly like what I started with...

Its actually on a small rock glued to the rock so I think I can pop it right off before its releases its off spring...

Been fun watching it -

[dputt88]

doesnt seem to be an anemone. anemones split/ fragment to reproduce, they dont grow new heads like zoos and palys.

[jstan]

OMG, aptasia have crossbreed with Texas trash palys.

That's kinda what it looks like.

[dputt88]

lol. that would be crazy. you could sell them for a crazy price for being a hybrid.

[Fish Dad]

OK I found this so assuming that what it is doing and its a majono anemone - as its growing buds


Aiptasia reproduce asexually by pedal laceration. Small masses of cells are pinched or torn off the margins of the pedal disk forming small buds. These grow slowly into buds and within a week or two after completely separating from the foot the bud develops a mouth and small tentacles and begins to feed on its own. Some of these clones will release and be distributed in the water column to colonize other locations. Additionally, Aiptasia demonstrates a preferential tolerance to its own clones and will not sting them. This allows large groupings of Aiptasia clones to form as a result of asexual reproduction.

[jstan]

Actually I just saw a pic ( in the selling forum) of another paly/zoa that looks just like this except it's red. It was called a tiger tail. You may want to look it up, you may have a new morph. Just curious is it located in an area of really high flow, if so, thats why the skirt is so long and flowing.

[Fish Dad]

Yes its high flow, also have other Zs with same length that I know are not bad...

[jstan]

My guess is paly, I'd keep it. As long as it keeps growing in the same way, developing a "matt" and budding like other zoa/palys then it's just a morph with longer skirts, try moving the rock to a lower/ almost no flow area. Then watch it for a few weeks or so.
It's also lacking that translucent skin tone that most anemone's have, it's more like the gray'ish texture my nuclear greens have.
However if individual buds start popping up in random spots....then well it's bad and needs to die.

If it is a paly, how much are frags and when can I get one?, the skirt is crazy on those.