anemone good or bad

[robin.gordon1]

I've just had a delivery of new corals for my tank. it wasn't until I had
the yellow polyps in place and opened that I noticed an alien in our midst.
there on the edge was a small 20mm wide anemone. it's not astipsia as I've
had to deal with them before but I'm worried that it might be a pest one
that marc levenson told us about. the photo and description are of a green
tipped anemone but mine is a solid brown colour and does seem to have
slightly bulbous tentacles like his description.
has anyone else fell in with a pest anemone like this before and how did you
eradicate it.

Robin

[Steve \Srfmon\]

It's difficult to say w/o a picture. But it could be a mojano anemone. I
purposely put these in my FOWLR tank. Because they are cool looking & can't
do any harm in a FO tank.Do a search on mojanos. Here is a photo taken by
Chuck Fiterman
http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/pages/picture_pages/faq_anemonia.html
HTH, Steve

"robin.gordon1" > wrote in message
...
> I've just had a delivery of new corals for my tank. it wasn't until I had
> the yellow polyps in place and opened that I noticed an alien in our
midst.
> there on the edge was a small 20mm wide anemone. it's not astipsia as
I've
> had to deal with them before but I'm worried that it might be a pest one
> that marc levenson told us about. the photo and description are of a
green
> tipped anemone but mine is a solid brown colour and does seem to have
> slightly bulbous tentacles like his description.
> has anyone else fell in with a pest anemone like this before and how did
you
> eradicate it.
>
> Robin
>
>

[Test User]

Most likely you are dealing with a "colony" anomone. I had one of these,
thought is was a baby BTA but it multiplied (not as fast as aptasia but
enough to be a pest). I would get rid of it as soon as possible. After I had
a ton of these these they were difficult ot get rid of.

Greg
Reefing since 1998

"robin.gordon1" > wrote in message
...
> I've just had a delivery of new corals for my tank. it wasn't until I had
> the yellow polyps in place and opened that I noticed an alien in our
midst.
> there on the edge was a small 20mm wide anemone. it's not astipsia as
I've
> had to deal with them before but I'm worried that it might be a pest one
> that marc levenson told us about. the photo and description are of a
green
> tipped anemone but mine is a solid brown colour and does seem to have
> slightly bulbous tentacles like his description.
> has anyone else fell in with a pest anemone like this before and how did
you
> eradicate it.
>
> Robin
>
>

[Cindy]

Steve "Srfmon"" <surferstevo@"nospam wrote:
> It's difficult to say w/o a picture. But it could be a mojano
> anemone. I purposely put these in my FOWLR tank. Because they are
> cool looking & can't do any harm in a FO tank.Do a search on mojanos.
> Here is a photo taken by Chuck Fiterman
> http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/pages/picture_pages/faq_anemonia.html
> HTH, Steve

What is FOWLR?
Thanks,
Cindy

[GrimReaper]

Fish Only With Live Rock


GrimReaper

[Cindy]

GrimReaper wrote:
> Fish Only With Live Rock
>
>
> GrimReaper

Thanks! :)