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first this is all over my tank and I'm not sure what it is but it's nothing that I added and is probably bad because that's how it works right? Lol And then a couple zoa ID's

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The last pic might be Utter Chaos if you can get a better picture it would help.
Did the rock come from someone still wet? It kind of looks like baby galaxy, but I really doubt that is what it is. I've never seen green corynactis, but it exists. Hidden cup coral, but is there a calcium skeleton to it? Doesn't really look like mojano anemones either.

The other zoas, ah..not everything has a name, but I am not a zoo expert.
 
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I first noticed it on the back of my glass in two spots. Maybe 1/4"-3/8" is all the bigger they've gotten. Noticed one on a rock today and started to look closer and I counted maybe 15 spread out. Looks like a mouth, and green tip tentacles. I thought some sort of pest nem but idk. No calcium base, at least not that I can tell. Haven't tried taking them off the glass or rocks, some things spread that way and until I know what it is I'll leave it alone lol.
 

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With them appearing on the glass, I am going to have to think type of anemone corynactis or mojano. Baby corals would be possible in a mature tank, but not one new like yours. If the rock was kept wet when you moved it I could see that one the rock work, but on the glass is super suspect.
 
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Pics 1 & 2, green corynactis (ball-tip anemones). Pic 4, featherdusters (harmless filter-feeders) on a zoa rock. Is that a baby mithrax crab on the bottom left corner?
Thanks! Not a crab and I was hoping for the name of the zoas with the feather dusters.
 
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With them appearing on the glass, I am going to have to think type of anemone corynactis or mojano. Baby corals would be possible in a mature tank, but not one new like yours. If the rock was kept wet when you moved it I could see that one the rock work, but on the glass is super suspect.
Yea all of my rock was dried and cured in garbage cans before it went into the tank. I have added 3 pieces of live rock from other peoples systems, I know terrible idea, but I wanted the coral and anemone lol. Next question, is it problem, how do I get rid of it?
 

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The last pic might be Utter Chaos if you can get a better picture it would help.
Did the rock come from someone still wet? It kind of looks like baby galaxy, but I really doubt that is what it is. I've never seen green corynactis, but it exists. Hidden cup coral, but is there a calcium skeleton to it? Doesn't really look like mojano anemones either.

The other zoas, ah..not everything has a name, but I am not a zoo expert.

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IMG_5864.JPG So I stumbled across a little whitish/ clear starfish looking thing on my glass and started googling. From what the little green jerks look like and from what the things on my glass look like, I think I have colonial hydroids o_O
 
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This looks kind of like where it all may have started... how do I get the nem out of the rock to remove it.

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Just busted open the rock, took out the nem, and hoping for the best. Anyway, busted the rock open and found a ton of brittle stars, a couple asterina, and this krill looking thing. Any idea what that is. The black thing floating on top of the water.

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Awesome. What about the hydroids... I've been reading really really bad things lol
 

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The first picture may be ball anemones.I am not sure on the zoanthids or what to do about the hydroids.
 
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The first picture may be ball anemones.I am not sure on the zoanthids or what to do about the hydroids.
That's what I was leaning towards too but I think they're hydroids. From reading that I've been doing and the pictures that I've come across i have an issue on my hands. Seems the neon green ones aren't common but they exist...
 

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