Discovered a hitchhiker in my tank this morning, hiding behind some macroalgae and next to a trochus snail. My first thought was aiptasia, but it seems to have banded tentacles? Is that a thing? Please excuse the quality of the video.
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I think you might be right! It looks more like a curlique than aiptasia to me. I don't have any live rock, but I do have several different species of macro. Any tips on how to eradicate it?Looks like a curlique anemone. Dangerous, I don't think it spreads like aips though.
PS. these can pop up with gulf live rock.
The same as you would aiptasia. Kalk paste or superglue on the mouthI think you might be right! It looks more like a curlique than aiptasia to me. I don't have any live rock, but I do have several different species of macro. Any tips on how to eradicate it?
if its not on rock just yank it out.I think you might be right! It looks more like a curlique than aiptasia to me. I don't have any live rock, but I do have several different species of macro. Any tips on how to eradicate it?
Haha its banding is very cool. I’d keep it out of curiosity, but would be so sad if it killed any of my fish.It's honestly an anemone I think we'd see wayyyyyy more in the hobby if aiptasia weren't such a common pest. They're very visually interesting, hardy, and common. It's just hard to sell a hobbyist on an oversized bubbly aiptasia when they've got 20 more of them living in the crevices of their tank haha