Hitchhiker ID?

[reptileguy112]

Sorry the pic is small. I got a zoa from from aquaworkz and it has a little block of red and these little stiff blue polys you can see scattered everywhere.

 

[strone]

Can you get a better pic?

 

[reptileguy112]

Sorry, I know its a crap pic. I will take one in the morning because I don't want to wake up my chameleon and lovebird.

 

[strone]

Sounds good. Have a good night

 

[reptileguy112]

 

[strone]

The red looks like a form of coralline and the blue polops look like a type of flower coral coral. But it's still hard to tell. Is the red specimen like a sponge or solid?

 

[Fin]

Still had to tell for sure in the picture. Might be blue clove polyps. Might be anthellia. Might be a number of things. Clove polyps and anthellia are cool, but can become invasive. If that were my frag, I would erradicate them while they are still small and few in numbers. The red and pink blotches look like coralline algae.

 

[strone]

I concur with fin. Might be anthellia, that's a good possibility.

 

[the new guy]

Any ideas on what this little guy is I spotted him attached under my yellow scroll

 

[usc_lax9]

Looks like a worm to me.

 

[strone]

That's exactly what it is. I have them and they like to make a web type trap to catch floating food.

 

[Arron209]

The red looks like a form of coralline and the blue polops look like a type of flower coral coral. But it's still hard to tell. Is the red specimen like a sponge or solid?

^Exactly. I would put some some superglue or putty over them. Had some blue clove polyps that started off looking cool but took over a large part of my last tank.

 

[the new guy]

That's exactly what it is. I have them and they like to make a web type trap to catch floating food.

Thank you should I worry about him or just let him hang around

 

[strone]

I don't like them in my DT because the web will cover or be touching my Zoas and brain coral. It's a matter of preference. But they are great for a refugium.

 

[Arron209]

The New Guy, it looks like a vermetid snail. I'd grab some pliers and get rid of that before it multiplies and is everywhere. They trap food using a web and it irritates corals.

 

[strone]

as you can see in pic 2 there is a web. Like I said before they are good fire a fuge.

 

[strone]

For a fuge. Spell check lol

 

[strone]

Get them out of your display tank bro!

 

[WindeyD]

Get that vermatid out ASAP

 

[strone]

just had to share this.