Anemone...bad?

[alexkharden]

I've been moving rocks out one at a time on a mantis hunt, and discovered this guy today. Richard at TBS said there are no invasive anemones on his rock, and to be fair there's only one of this guy. What is it though, because it looks like all the aiptasia pictures I've seen? Is there a non-invasive aiptasia species? Hard to see in the picture, but it has a tube that goes as far back under the rock as I can see. Also, under the rock, I can clearly see a pistol shrimp going about his sand sifting business.

So do I have an awesome symbiotic relationship going on, or a potential plague? Or has my pistol partnered up with a plague, lol.

 

[todda5914]

Picture are slightly fuzzy, but looks like Aptasia. Need to eliminate them. If you scrape them off there is a good chance pieces will be scattered in your tank spreading them. I'm a fan of Aptasia-X. A longer-term solution are Bergia nudibranches. They eat the anemones and nothing else.

 

[todda5914]

Picture are slightly fuzzy, but looks like Aptasia. Need to eliminate them. If you scrape them off there is a good chance pieces will be scattered in your tank spreading them. I'm a fan of Aptasia-X. A longer-term solution are Bergia nudibranches. They eat the anemones and nothing else.

 

[Tahoe61]

It's a pest anemone, even though it might not look like the typical Apitasia.

 

[alexkharden]

Given that it's not spreading, that it's from the Florida coast, and that it's paired with a pistol shrimp, could it be a Curlique Anemone?