Bad or Good Anemone

raddogz · #1 09/18/2004, 11:08 PM

This has been sitting in my tank for over a year now. It has not reproduced as far as I can tell, and is not the common Aipstasia either. What is it? It sends out stinger tentacles out at night.[IMG]Weird Anemone.jpg[/IMG]

raddogz · #2 09/19/2004, 01:42 PM

Sorry, here's the picture

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showp...hp?photo=56091

finding nemo · #3 09/19/2004, 02:17 PM

It looks like a ricordia to me, but hard to tell by the picture, can you take a brighter one for us?

raddogz · #4 09/19/2004, 02:40 PM

finding nemo · #5 09/19/2004, 03:48 PM

Still hard to tell, can you get closer? It is either a flower anemone or a ricordia.

raddogz · #6 09/20/2004, 01:44 PM

The camera will not allow for a closer shot. Would a flower anemone send out tentacles out at night, cuz that is what it does?

Anemone · #7 09/20/2004, 02:55 PM

The "tentacles at night" part, plus what appeared to be white "ball" tips on the tentacles make me think pseudocorynactis.

Do a search and you'll find other pics - most are fairly translucent (although corynactis (not pseudocorynactis) come in more "solid" colors), and run the spectrum, with many being pick, red, orange or yellow.

FWIW,
Kevin

gregb · #8 09/20/2004, 06:58 PM

Its a button polyp