Zoa ?

[tarmer]

Thanks in advance to all who yake the time to help us out in identifying things - it really helps us moving forward and making decisions based on discussion not speculation……

As such - I have mixed feelings about Zoas but I recently got this mushroom and it had a polyp that i could not see at first as it was closed and super small - over the past few days it has become more noticeable- and over the last two it is starting to open a little - it is the orange circle right below the base of the mushroom- it is hard to get a good picture of due to angle - but it is there

Does this look like it could be an Orange Zoa of some sort - i thought it may be a baby mushroom but at close look not thinking so

Any thoughts

TIA

 

[randomfishdude]

Looks like a zoa to me. The bigger question is do you have one like that?

 

[tarmer]

Looks like a zoa to me. The bigger question is do you have one like that?

Nope do not have any in my tank at all -
This one came as a hitchhiker on the mushroom plug

 

[SVTChili]

looks like a zoa to me too. Be careful if you bought a mushroom on a frag plug that had a zoa hitchhiker. If the shop/original owner didn’t notice it, it prob grows like a weed and is tremendously ugly.