Help Identifying organism in sand bed

[brookeeburns304]

These are all in one area of the sand bed, they are blue with white or blue lights. Tried reverse searching multiple times nothing quite matches

 

[Boehmtown]

Could it be some sort of soft coral? Like a blue clove polyp? Or do they move around

 

[Subsea]

These are all in one area of the sand bed, they are blue with white or blue lights. Tried reverse searching multiple times nothing quite matches

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Brook,
Check out the thread that @EnterName started in critter id & hitchhiker forum

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/microscopy-thread.1138845/page-6#post-14455610

 

[commod0re]

is that an oral disc I see there?

any chance you can get some closer and clearer pictures? maybe a video?

 

[brookeeburns304]

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Brook,
Check out the thread that @EnterName started in critter id & hitchhiker forum

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/microscopy-thread.1138845/page-6#post-14455610

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Brook,
Check out the thread that @EnterName started in critter id & hitchhiker forum

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/microscopy-thread.1138845/page-6#post-14455610

Roughly 5 months! 4 zoas, 2 rock flower anemone , firework clove polyp , 2 gsp and a couple mushrooms. 2 clowns and a handful of blue legged hermits. Bagged sand from local fish store and live rock. This is only a 13 gallon tank

 

[brookeeburns304]

is that an oral disc I see there?

any chance you can get some closer and clearer pictures? maybe a video?

Sorry idk if this is helpful can’t get camera to ever focus on them

 

[brookeeburns304]

is that an oral disc I see there?

any chance you can get some closer and clearer pictures? maybe a video?

 

[keagan]

It's easier to say what it's not than what it is. The closer pictures show an oral disk and it appears to be attached under the sand like a mud anenome. But there's so many species, none are all that common in the trade so this will be a hard one for anyone to I.D with confidence. I can say with confidence it isn't a species of aiptasia or majano. I was thinking micro brittle stars until I seen the picture with one removed from the sand. That's a really cool hitchhiker.

 

[Boehmtown]

Could it be blue anthelia?

 

[EnterName]

These are all in one area of the sand bed, they are blue with white or blue lights. Tried reverse searching multiple times nothing quite matches

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What was your source of substrate & rock?

Brook,
Check out the thread that @EnterName started in critter id & hitchhiker forum

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/microscopy-thread.1138845/page-6#post-14455610

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I'm afraid I have not yet found such a specimen though. Maybe it's really just a coral polyp, but it's odd to find so many at once. Usually corals will shed a little branch with a few polyps and not just the polyp bit. But I don't know if Anthelia behave differently.