Aiptasia Or Not?

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there are some aiptasias on my live rock and i have been removing them but recently, i found 1 that was white and looks a little different, there are more "tentacles" and they are longer, plus it is white, is this just another type of aiptasia or is it a feather duster or something else? i would just kill it but if it isnt a aiptasia i dont want to kill it considering the prices of corals and such where i live. all the other aiptasia on the same rock are brown/red
 
sounds more like you may have a combination of mojano and aiptasia. Impossible to say though without pictures as there are tons of similar looking corals and anemones in the sea :)
 
sounds more like you may have a combination of mojano and aiptasia. Impossible to say though without pictures as there are tons of similar looking corals and anemones in the sea :)

i would take a picture but the only white thingy in there is very small and is kinda in the backish but ill try...
GAH! i was bout to take a picture and this baby girl SMACKED the glas really hard (to scare my damsel) and it went to hiding

But i found a picture off the internet that kinda looks like it, its like a mix of the picture below and a feather duster (from what i can see (its still soo small!!!!)
and the other picture is what the other aiptasia looks like on the rock

niag-aiptasia.jpg

Aiptasia_sp2.jpg
 
thsi is pretty much what they look like, can i be sure that ther not feather dusters or anyhting that i should keep. should i get rid of it on my next aiptasia clean out?

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ill try to post a pic of mine and a pic when it gets a little easier to see and bigger... or.... should i just be safe and get rid of it?

it didnt look like most of the other pic of colonial hydroids i saw
 
Try and get a pic first, I wanna see these things now :)
 
heres the best pictures i could get with the non controlable auto focus

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i tried to zoom more but it got to blurry, they are very clearly seeable when u look at them, but blurry = bad :(

its really cool looking and i wanna keep it but i dont know if its bad
 
Looks more like a button polyp or tube worm to me, keep em :)
 

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