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Unread 04/22/2017, 05:37 PM   #1
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I'd please

I think it is a breed of Aptaisia... Pictures kinda suck.. Color wise.. It is red.. With some blue spots... Streaks on its tentacles


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Unread 04/22/2017, 05:48 PM   #2
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Also.. Is this a sponge or some kind of weird alge


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Unread 04/22/2017, 08:11 PM   #3
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Yes it aptaisia. Get yourself some peppermint shrimp. Ask the lfs where there from if he says Florida get them if not don't

2nd pictures touch it or blast with turkey baser. If it blows off algae if not sponge. But I don't think there are any green sponges


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Unread 04/22/2017, 10:07 PM   #4
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The green thing does not blow off...
Its soft and squishy... I was poking at it with a stick lol

I kinda thought it was... Will peppermint shrimp eat little ball anemone?
I've got quite a few of them and I like them


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Unread 04/22/2017, 11:19 PM   #5
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Not really sure if they do. But if you like the ball anemone why not just leave the apaistia alone then


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Unread 04/23/2017, 08:00 AM   #6
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I thought about it since it doesn't like like the normal brown glass anemone.. But I don't want them to over run my tank... The lil ball anemone are kinda cute.. And my girlfriend and daughter like them..
Are they a pest as well?


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Unread 04/23/2017, 08:23 AM   #7
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Some people think so.


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They will cease being cute when they begin to overtake the tank and start irritating/killing your other corals, if and when you want to rid your tank of them, my suggestion is a matted file fish, mine eradicated literally 100's of them in a little less than a month, now he is valued member of the reef community, it will nip at large stony corals but mine has not damaged any beyond control.


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Unread 04/23/2017, 09:25 AM   #9
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Ohhhh I had no idea they were bad like that.. I've notice they have spread a bit.. But had no idea they were bad like that..
I am indecisive weither or not I will make my tank a soft coral and fish tank.. Or a fowler tank... Or a mainly fowler with a couple softies... I do have a small hidden cup coral colony that hitch hiked with my live rock.. But those are the only stony coral I will have


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Unread 04/23/2017, 10:03 AM   #10
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Anemones will win the battle with most corals. Since they can reproduce very fast. They can overrun a tank causing head ache. If your going Fowler or just softy I wouldn't worry about it. They are actually helpful in a fowler because they catch suspended food in the water


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