Just added my first set of polyps, and they haven't opened yet, but there is a tentacle like growth expanding from the center of them, any idea what it is?
Tentacles on my closed polyps?
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Appear to be worms my friend. You should remove those polyps and treat them with a coral dip. Tech-D, by Kent Marine works well.
Really? They have touched the rock and seem to really stick to it, almost as if they are made of goop, but ill do what you say
Well, those are zoanthid polyps? The tentacles of zoanthids are short and stout, and vibrantly colored uniformly around the central disk. Though many corals possess longer tentacles known as "sweeper tentacles", used for detecting and stunning prey items in the water column, zoanthids are not ones which posess these.