Help Me Identify Please

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Yeah ask Mr. Reef, he is like a book.
 
TheCanuck;3977292; said:
coral section would have been a better place, but kevin or mr.reef with get your answer soon enough.
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Haha thanks for the confidence.

Myteemouse;3977408; said:
second pic is aptasia kill it..
the first pic is too blurry..

My theory is ,
"IF you didn't put it in the tank, KILL IT!!
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I agree that the second is likely an apista anemone but it could also be a Cerianthid anemone, but either way 99% of hichhicker anemones are pests and should be removed.
The first I'm not so sure... it is rather blurry... but I would say its likely a sea squirt of some kind... hard to tell without a perfect picture haha, but its likely. If thats the case, nothing to worry about as they are a harmless filter feeder and will likely die out unless there is alot of phytos and small pods in the water.

Oh and I don't even come close to agreeing with the "didn't put it in the tank, KILL IT" statement, as there are many live rock hitchers you want in your system that can improve everything from water parameteres to acting as nutritional supliments to your fish when they eat them. Though that said there are also a large number of things that could devistate your tank if left to their own devices. So when in doubt ask.
 
the first one is a group of tunicates which are harmless second is an aiptasia which is the pest glass anemone

mr.reef24
 
Kevin8888;3977816; said:
Oh and I don't even come close to agreeing with the "didn't put it in the tank, KILL IT" statement, as there are many live rock hitchers you want in your system that can improve everything from water parameteres to acting as nutritional supliments to your fish when they eat them. Though that said there are also a large number of things that could devistate your tank if left to their own devices. So when in doubt ask.
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I'm not trying to start an argument, here.. BUT
I (unlike most others) started my tank from sterile dry rocks and sand.
I cured it with dead fish and seeded pods from a bottle.
EVERYTHING that goes in my tank gets a triple dip.

MELAFIX
IODINE
FLATWORM EXIT

I have seen pests and other things get out of control...
I even had red bugs :(
Some things are gonna happen.
But if you like a clean, pest free tank,?? You do what you gotta do.
 
Myteemouse;3978652; said:
I'm not trying to start an argument, here.. BUT
I (unlike most others) started my tank from sterile dry rocks and sand.
I cured it with dead fish and seeded pods from a bottle.
EVERYTHING that goes in my tank gets a triple dip.

MELAFIX
IODINE
FLATWORM EXIT

I have seen pests and other things get out of control...
I even had red bugs :(
Some things are gonna happen.
But if you like a clean, pest free tank,?? You do what you gotta do.
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I can accept that, but if you have a long enough cycle (which most people dont) the majority of pest critters die off as they require hosts to survive, isopods, parasitic flatworms (black ich and similar things), white ich, etc all die without hosts.

Yes the can still cause problems theoreticaly, but I have seen more successful tanks with live added, then I have seen ones that had plauge levels of anything.

At the same time my next tank will be built with dry rock haha, specificaly Aragocrete as its going to be 1000+gal, so that much live is expencive and hard to work with, so I intend to buy 50-100lb live and cure it in a QT tank so I can monitor the evil things and keep them out of the 1000gal. As once its in the 1000 it will be nigh impossible to remove.
 
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