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12-01-2004, 01:32 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sydney, NSW,New_South_Wales
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 |  Aiptasia or a friendly?
Heya 3reef peeps,
Ive had my 155L (sorry no idea what that is in gallons) salt water tank for about three months now and just recently got my last lot of live rock.
On one of the rocks there were a few anenome looking critters and seein as ive heard a few people talking about aiptasia in less than friendly terms i was wondering if thats what ive got?
Theres these two reddinsh orange ones...
and im not too sure how to add more than one pic so ill post again   | 
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12-01-2004, 01:33 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sydney, NSW,New_South_Wales
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
and there was this one larger whitish one | |
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12-01-2004, 10:56 AM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
155 liters x .26417 = 41 gallons * 
I've never seen an atapsia with a long stalk like that. In the bottom picture. It sure looks like an anemone to me. (pun intended)
Enjoy your tank.
Jim
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12-01-2004, 12:17 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sydney, NSW,New_South_Wales
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
Cheers Diver, thanks for the help. I was getting a little worried there.
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12-03-2004, 11:53 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Moreno Valley, CA,California
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
How big are they? Aiptasia will generally not get larger than 1" in diameter. By looking at your first picture, it looks like Aiptasia to me. I had one, took the rock out and threw it away! They are VERY hard to get rid of.
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12-04-2004, 05:06 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sydney, NSW,New_South_Wales
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
Hmmm they are not that big... no more than a couple of centimeters, that is of the diameter of the disc.
Its probably a bit hard to tell with the pictures hey...I'll try to get a pic or two of decent quality.... | |
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12-05-2004, 01:23 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: oakley, CA,California
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
hi, in my tank I had a few of them but then I got a copper band and he took care of them in 2 days.never seen the again
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12-05-2004, 06:05 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
What does the copperband eat now? I understand their diet consists mainly of coral polyps? _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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12-06-2004, 11:55 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sydney, NSW,New_South_Wales
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
Hi, i think this is a better pic...
Ive been doing some looking around on various web sites and all the pictures ive found seem to look alot like mine * 
Oh well i guess its time to find out wether joes juice is sold in australia or my LFS for that matter, i hear it works pretty good. | |
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12-07-2004, 12:04 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sydney, NSW,New_South_Wales
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| Re: Aiptasia or a friendly?
Whoops forgot to add the pic  | |
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