ID please :)

[RealtyBoss]

This post likely is in the wrong area but I got this by accident. Bought an established tank for my bedside and all the "LR " was covered in a fuzzy gray. I took a soft toothbrush and started fluffing it off as I saw color under it. The whole rock is orange and red under it. There are large ball like areas with bright orange spots all over them too. It looks like a tree branch. ( photos won't show color). Then there's a paper thin plate with what I think is a mouth on the back. It has yellow spots all over it. Over night a large area of it turned blood red. :( then there was a frag that looked petrified. All gray in color. After brushing softly there are what look like sunflowers on it. Lastly one rock has large plays or polyps on them. They're the size of a half dollar. I don't know what any of this is. I need to know if I hurt it and how to take care of them. I can google the care part if I know what all this is. Thanks in advance

 

[jsker]

Is there anyway you could get some better pictures? turn the blues down maybe? :)
1. Monti
2. pylops
3 ????
4. ????

 

[FL_Reefer]

2nd pic looks like a Hollywood stunner chalice. Need more "white" pics please

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

One below the polyps looks like a sickly trumpet possibly. I agree, less blue and will be able to ID better.

 

[RealtyBoss]

Ok Let me try again. I'm horrible at pics

 

[RealtyBoss]

Ok so without the light you can't see the glowing red and, orange and purple but here's clear pics of what they're growing on

 

[RealtyBoss]

Clearer

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

1: trumpet
2:?
3: polyps
4: Hollywood stunner chalice (be careful, at lights out will send loooooong sweeper tentacles so just keep up flow from other corals)
5: ? (But does look to possibly be aiptaisia at bottom of rock just above Sandbed.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Here's my stunner chalice

 

[aslmx]

Those polyps are very invasive and will spread fast. One of my first mistakes.

 

[RealtyBoss]

Above it you will see the rounded rock with some color on the side. Under blue light they're intense orange and look like a ball of tiny flowers

 

[RealtyBoss]

Those polyps are very invasive and will spread fast. One of my first mistakes.

Ok so what do I do? They're pretty. Green in center and purple around. But big!! I don't know I want the chalice. It's very large and now one area is turning blood red. I must've hurt it somehow. It's not a large tank so I don't want things hurting each other. Any suggestions? Should I take these to the LFS?

 

[RealtyBoss]

1: trumpet
2:?
3: polyps
4: Hollywood stunner chalice (be careful, at lights out will send loooooong sweeper tentacles so just keep up flow from other corals)
5: ? (But does look to possibly be aiptaisia at bottom of rock just above Sandbed.

Ah yes I see now. There is a large aptasia on that one. I plan on killing it.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

If the red on the rock doesn't scrub off with a brush and actually takes some chipping at it to get it off, I'd have to say a form of coraline. Haven't encountered a stunner turning red yet due to injury. Mine suffered a rough trip home and some almost immediate surgery, but no red. Places I cut growing super fast now.

 

[jsker]

2 and 5 look like aptasia and you want that out of the tank. I had very good success with a matted file fish, if you get the right pepper mint shrimp, I did not have much success with the chemicals like aptasia x

 

[aslmx]

Ok so what do I do? They're pretty. Green in center and purple around. But big!! I don't know I want the chalice. It's very large and now one area is turning blood red. I must've hurt it somehow. It's not a large tank so I don't want things hurting each other. Any suggestions? Should I take these to the LFS?

I'd get rid or try to trade the green polyps. They are cool looking but grow like a weed. I couldn't keep them under control when I had them in a 75 gal. I was even taking out entire sections of rock that got covered by them.

 

[RealtyBoss]

If the red on the rock doesn't scrub off with a brush and actually takes some chipping at it to get it off, I'd have to say a form of coraline. Haven't encountered a stunner turning red yet due to injury. Mine suffered a rough trip home and some almost immediate surgery, but no red. Places I cut growing super fast now.

Hmmmm. Wonder why mine is turning red? One area just turned large blood red and the yellow parts are gone in that area. It's so fragile there's a piece cracked already. I will probably take it all to the LFS except the large branches or live rock. They called it live rock but it has the most magnificent colors under all this. Just don't want to go too hard on it as there is an assessor , 2 black and maroon clowns and a sharp nose puffer in there. This polyp colony is huge. I have a 200 gal DT I could move it to I guess. The chalice I've got no clue or the ball things with the orange circles in them

 

[Sabellafella]

Ok so without the light you can't see the glowing red and, orange and purple but here's clear pics of what they're growing on

This last picture looks to be remains of gonipora

 

[FL_Reefer]

If you keep the polyps just put them on their own rock so you can control the spread of them

 

[RealtyBoss]

I'll have to look up goniporia. Sounds like a disease! Thanks for all yalls help. Wish I could get a pic when all the colors open up. They look like spores all over of color. They don't show up in light and my blue light doesn't show either. It's really pretty whatever is is and it's everywhere when the lights are off