This little guys has a story to tell : )

[HaveFishWillTravel]

This little guy is tuuuuuufffffffff to take a picture of when the lights are on. His white fleshy outer edge really reflects light! This pic is 12 hours after the last one... all day direct light... he is near the bottom of my tank. I wasn’t going to post another pic today but it looks like both littles heads are in the process of splitting! Tomorrow there will be 4 heads... pods... I dunno.

This has been fun so far : )

It’s difficult to tell from the photos mostly because underwater in the tank photography is pretty difficult to begin with, but I was looking at the photos of your blue guy and am wondering if yours looks anything like the guy in the photo that I am attaching.

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

Very nice!

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was creating the diatom Algea faster then they could eat it. Now that I have a good understanding of the need to check the TDS in my RODI... it is almost gone.

TDS? RODI?

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

I wanted to throw this picture in for a time comparison. He is twice as big already than he was when I found him. But, I also wanted to show a ...graphic for how small of a thing I have been trying to capture pictures of.

Do you have an iPhone11? There is a magnifying option in Photo where you click the right side button 3 times and it magnifies it like 9x or something close to that. That little guy is very tiny!

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

It’s difficult to tell from the photos mostly because underwater in the tank photography is pretty difficult to begin with, but I was looking at the photos of your blue guy and am wondering if yours looks anything like the guy in the photo that I am attaching.

He doesn’t have that much color yet... mostly whites and greens. That might be what he is : )

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

Do you have an iPhone11? There is a magnifying option in Photo where you click the right side button 3 times and it magnifies it like 9x or something close to that. That little guy is very tiny!

I’ve been using a 100mm macro lens on my DSLR : )

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

TDS? RODI?

TDS ...total dissolved solids in my RODI... Reverse Osmosis De-Ionized water filtration system. The moment TDS of the water coming thru it gets above 1 or 2, it’s time to replace the filters. I didn’t even know I was supposed to test for it. Once I did, it was reading 149, so I was basically feeding silicates to the diatoms Now I don’t let the TDS get above zero : )

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

I wanted to throw this picture in for a time comparison. He is twice as big already than he was when I found him. But, I also wanted to show a ...graphic for how small of a thing I have been trying to capture pictures of.

Is he more like a miniature one of these?

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

Is he more like a miniature one of these?

Yes! Now that is very close!

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

I’ve been using a 100mm macro lens on my DSLR : )

Oh, I totally forgot about those cool cameras with the awesome lenses. I haven’t used my DSLR for several years. Recently, I remembered that I used to use filters like yellow to get the blue out! This is one of the most fascinating hobbies. Something for everyone for sure!

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

Yes! Now that is very close!

I only knew this guy as a green bubble tipped anemone. He was my first one about three years ago. It was the first time I saw what I thought originally was a plant (duh!) move. It moved! The coolest thing ever! Later, when I watched my Black Widow anemone split in two, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Amazing thing to watch!

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

Here are some new pics. The first pic is unedited... the second one is heavily edited on my Lightroom app. : )

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

Yes! Now that is very close!

A friend of mine who pretty well versed in everything reef said this looks like a bleached out Coraliimorph. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/corallim.htm
Check out the link and let me know what you think. I had a pretty fun afternoon looking up corals and looking at my older photos trying to figure what your tiny blue guy is. I am really enjoying REEF2REEF

Here are some new pics. The first pic is unedited... the second one is heavily edited on my Lightroom app. : )

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

A friend of mine who pretty well versed in everything reef said this looks like a bleached out Coraliimorph. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/corallim.htm
Check out the link and let me know what you think. I had a pretty fun afternoon looking up corals and looking at my older photos trying to figure what your tiny blue guy is. I am really enjoying REEF2REEF

I looked at the link. Your friend may be right. I honestly can’t tell from looking at the adult picture. I wouldn’t mind if he was right : ) thats a cool mushroom. I really love this forum too!

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

A friend of mine who pretty well versed in everything reef said this looks like a bleached out Coraliimorph. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/corallim.htm
Check out the link and let me know what you think. I had a pretty fun afternoon looking up corals and looking at my older photos trying to figure what your tiny blue guy is. I am really enjoying REEF2REEF

The mouth is different... that may be age as well... it honestly looks like an anemone mouth to me. I am by no means an expert!

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

The mouth is different... that may be age as well... it honestly looks like an anemone mouth to me. I am by no means an expert!

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

Was your rock recently in the ocean?

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

Was your rock recently in the ocean?

Half of it was. I used half fresh from the ocean live rock and half cured lived rock.

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

Half of it was. I used half fresh from the ocean live rock and half cured lived rock.

Anemones come from larvae And they are fertilized or from splitting and cloning themselves. I wonder if your little anemone came from a fertilized larvae? Interesting thought. Is he still growing?

 

[HaveFishWillTravel]

Half of it was. I used half fresh from the ocean live rock and half cured lived rock.

Half of it was. I used half fresh from the ocean live rock and half cured lived rock.

Here are some photos of my pink tipped rainbow anemones and my fishes. My tank is pretty new too. I started cycling it in May and started adding corals on June 21st. The fishes were added a week or so later from my other tank. My last tank had live ocean rock, but I didn’t like the volunteers. I used a yellow filter. Not sure why the photos are so blue...

 

[Shawn_epicurious]

Anemones come from larvae And they are fertilized or from splitting and cloning themselves. I wonder if your little anemone came from a fertilized larvae? Interesting thought. Is he still growing?

Actually, no, he is not really growing much... very slow.