Glass Anemones?

[garybuk]

This are bad right?? how do i tel if the white things comeing outa my live rock are glass anemones?? they only tiny! and i havnt got a digi cam good enuff to get good qualty pics

 

[BigBeginner]

im probably not qualified to answer since im still new to marines, but in my experience, if it looks like a featherduster with out the featheryness (like just thin tentacles) and is brown or white, i would kill it. also feather dusters (from what ive seen (correct me if im wrong) usually have a strippy pattern on their feathers, and glass anems are a plain color.

 

[zeo]

Just get a peppermint shrimp. It will soon enough kill any and all aiptisia (sp) in your tank.
And even if you dont have any, it will make a nice addition to any tank.

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Peppermint shrimp will not always eat aiptasia and they can also end up eating corals as well (my yellow polyps have halved in number since I put peppermint shrimp in my tank, might not be the peppermint shrimp but I suspect it is). That aside though they are pretty and I really like mine (all three will actually come out and "clean" my hand when its in the tank).

Aiptasia are generally a browny sort of colour. I have put some links in below to photos of them which should help with the ID. If you do have aiptasia then I would higly recommend getting some joes juice. I had a sudden outbreak in my tank, zapped them all with joes juice and have never seen anymore since.

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[garybuk]

Peppermint shrimp will not always eat aiptasia and they can also end up eating corals as well (my yellow polyps have halved in number since I put peppermint shrimp in my tank, might not be the peppermint shrimp but I suspect it is). That aside though they are pretty and I really like mine (all three will actually come out and "clean" my hand when its in the tank).

Aiptasia are generally a browny sort of colour. I have put some links in below to photos of them which should help with the ID. If you do have aiptasia then I would higly recommend getting some joes juice. I had a sudden outbreak in my tank, zapped them all with joes juice and have never seen anymore since.

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Do glass Anemones?go in and out?

 

[zeo]

yes

 

[dilbert]

There is also a shrimp looking similar to the true peppermit shrimp (Lysmata wurdemanni) that doesn't eat Aiptasia.

So it's important to get the real Lysmata wurdemanni. But that eats also polyps and tubeworms, among others.

So, if you don't know if it's an Aiptasia or a tubeworm - no problem - Lysmata wurdemanni will finish with both of them.

And, the colour of the tentacles of Aiptasia depends on the pigments in it and those depend mainly on lighting.
Aiptasia is photosynthetic but also at night active.