Baby rockflower?

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Not sure what this could be. We have a red and a green rockflower anenome but I am not seeing much color from this new critter. Possibly some type of hydroid?

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Would be easier to see with a yellow filter or white lights on. That might be an RFA baby
Here's with filter glasses. There is white light on.
 

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Not sure other than to say when I find baby rock flower nems I usually spot them because I see a spot of color that is green or orange, the color of my adults
These don't really have color yet but the structure of them looks like baby rfa.
 

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Looks like a little rock flower to me. I find them in my tank by shutting off all the lights and you can shine a black light on the tank and the little ones just glow. But not all of them are bright in color.
 

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Looks like an RFA baby to me. @jkcoral don't you get babies sometimes?

Yep. That’s a baby rock flower. If there’s one, there will be more.

Loss rates are really high on babies, but finding them and feeding them every 2-3 days with reefroids/benereef helps them grow.

And a lot of them are born and you think they might be plain or ugly, but develop their real colors as they grow. Here’s a baby of mine that started out with an orange face and gray skirt. It was born in the fall.

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