Baby bubble tip anemone?!

19Mateo83 · May 12, 2023

So I thought I had a single aptasia a few weeks ago, earlier tonight I noticed it had moved from its spot a few inches on the rock. Tonight i was basting away some algae on my rocks and I basted it away. Now it has appeared on my glass after lights out. I took this opportunity to suck it out with the baster. Being the curious person I am and having a microscope handy I decided to take a closer look at it just for sh*#s and giggles. Am I crazy or is this a baby bubble tip anemone!? It’s tiny, like maybe 1mm across, but it sure does look a lot like a itty bitty bubble tip… it even has a green tint to it. It also attaches to surfaces super quickly. The zoa plug it came on also came from a LFS that kept baskets of BTA’s in the same tank. I isolated it in a clear solo cup I cut to allow water exchange. I wanted to be sure before I tossed it as a pest or got excited about it being a BTA.

bradleym · May 12, 2023

It's a very cool looking critter, but at that size, it's more likely to be a majano anemone.

19Mateo83 · May 12, 2023

bradleym said:
It's a very cool looking critter, but at that size, it's more likely to be a majano anemone.

It’s probably pretty ticked off in these pictures. I will yet to get better pictures tomorrow if it’s not too mad still. I’m almost 100% sure it’s not an aptasia, this one held its shape when out of the water. Aptasia generally just flop over and deflate.

bradleym · May 12, 2023

19Mateo83 said:
It’s probably pretty ticked off in these pictures. I will yet to get better pictures tomorrow if it’s not too mad still. I’m almost 100% sure it’s not an aptasia, this one held its shape when out of the water. Aptasia generally just flop over and deflate.

Majano anemones are different from aiptasia. I have both, lol.