What kind of coral is it??

[mikeski]

Sorry, no pic. I will try to take a pic tonight. I received this thing as a rider on a mushroom rock I got from my LFS.

How can I put this??? It's brown. It's soft. It's a little larger than an eraser, and then it has a head of rasta hair. The rasta hair reminds me of a brown koosh ball. The thing flattens out as it opens up. It ends up looking like a round rug with a fringe. If you touch it, it quickly closes on what you touched it with. It appears to have a hole in the center. Like a mouth I guess.

Ring a bell??

Also, any recommendations on good books to get for corals??

Mike.

[BigFish]

hmmm need to see a pic but mabe an anenome or a polyp of some kind.

[phistio]

Eric Borneman and Julian Sprung both have outstanding coral books out...

i agree sounds either like a zooanthid polyp, or an aiptasia anemone...but a picture is worth a thousand words... :wink:

[surgeon67]

Rasta hair says aiptasia to me....hope I'm wrong.

The first one I saw in my tank I thought was pretty kewl looking. Watched it eat all the time. Then I found out what it was, but too late.... I'm still fighting with them. The good news is I also found some palythoa on the same rock.

[mikeski]

I received this thing as a rider on a mushroom rock I got from my LFS.

How can I put this??? It's brown. It's soft. It's a little larger than an eraser, and then it has a head of rasta hair. The rasta hair reminds me of a brown koosh ball. The thing flattens out as it opens up. It ends up looking like a round rug with a fringe. If you touch it, it quickly closes on what you touched it with. It appears to have a hole in the center. Like a mouth I guess.

I have placed flake food on it and it appears to have eaten it. I placed some thawed carnivore food on it and it gobbled that down too. Was cool watching it. Mouth just sorta engulfed it. Like a snake. So, not sure what it eats for real or what I should feed it.

Ring a bell??

Also, any recommendations on good books to get for corals??

Mike.

[surgeon67]

Hmmmm , I'm no expert, but it looks different than the aiptasia I have occasionally (they have "sharper" tentacles), so I'm not sure.

Anybody else?

[steve1s]

Anemonia majano (http://www.wetwebmedia.com/anemoniafaqs.htm)

Cheers
Steve

[mikeski]

Thanks for the info. From the links I can see that the pic's match. I will let it be for a while. See what it does. I will make sure to not feed it on purpose daily.

Regards
mikeski

[pete_ra]

personally, i wouldnt take the chance of keeping it. ive ssen pics online like that and they say its bad. Real corals are so much cooler, why keep that when it could kill your corals?

[mikeski]

Well, I did some rearanging of the rocks in my tank and that little thing ended up in the shade. It did not like that I guess. It moved to a new location. I found that it had not completed attaching itself at the new location. I was able to get it off the rock cleanly. :D

Mike...

[HoopsGuru]

For what it is worth, I actually purchased two Anemone Majano species and am very pleased with them. One is a light green and the other is pink (it has actually divided). While others have labeled them as "bad", these are not wildly multiplying like Aiptasia sp. and are not aggressive at all. One has currently moved amongst my Sarcophyton and Zoanthids without any stinging or other aggression. In fact, I actually found some sort of rogue Majano sp. on the rock of Zoanthids I purchased and it remains hidden in the day but extends at night...again, no aggression. IMO, these Anemones have gotten a bum rap and are just as "cool" as other anemones. What's the difference? More "popular" anemones can wipe out a tank of corals just as easily. :wink:

Yes, my opinion is not the norm on these guys, but its what my experience has determined thus far. :D

[michealprater]

I have been fighting majano in my tank. Although I have not seen much aggression out of them. The reproduce so rapidly in my tank it is a problem. I personally dont want 10000 majanos in my tank.