Many things to ID :)

Alright, let's see who can ID the most lol.
Some of the stuff was already in my old tank, I just have no clue what it was (tank was given to me by a good friend that moved), some of the stuff showed up since I transfered to the new tank

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same one but closed more


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and another shot


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that came on a cultured rock I got, there's actualy 3 or 4 on there but that's the only one I have seen move


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This is a Trochus snail right ?


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And these are pulsing xenias right ?


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On this picture, there are 3 things, first the obvious bulb/root looking things, then, on the right towards the top that spider/crab looking thing (white and red in color) and the other crab/spider looking thing (grey/brown with white stripes) toward the bottom


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What is the name of these mushrooms ?


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Weird shaped snail, I see him "riding" on my Trochus a lot


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And this is diatom algae right ?


Sorry for all the questions, I am still a newbie, and I hope the pics are not too big !

 

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And these are pulsing xenias right ?

RIGHT. Well, they're Xenia, you tell us, do they pulse

That's hair algae around it :-/





11- Some kind of Macro Algae







16- Some type of Chiton.


BTW - the pics are excellent.

 

hmm, thanks guys so far for the responses !
aiptasia huh, so I guess it has to go ! I guess I'll take the LR out and see what I can do with it ...
The other stuff is safe thought right ?
Oh and yes, they do pulse

 

too long to load...#8 I see it is red grape algae aka botryocladia occidentalis most likely - NOT the pest species of botryo.

 

14 maybe a favia
4 looks like a monti to me

 

I can only help on the molluscan questions. #5 is probably an oyster of one type or another, although from the single view, it could actually be a scallop. It's probably either a Pinctada species (the Pearl Oyster family) or a Spondylus (but I can't see any sculpture in the pic). #6 is an Astraea rather than a Trochus. It's in the Turbo family. #16/17 is a keyhole limpet, probably one of the species in the genus Diodora. They primarily eat cryptic sponges.

Cheers,



Don

 

01- button polyps

02- looks like some type of non-photosynthetic dendrophyllia of some kind

03- same

07- Anthelia

08- Looks like the beginning of red grape caulerpa(good)

09- I'm going to guess some kind of trachyphyllia

10- Looks like briopsis(very bad) growing on halimeda(sp)

11-Halimeda(sp)

12- Aptasia and some feather dusters

13- Coralimorph

14- Baby trachyphyllia...?

17- Kind of looks like dinoflagelettes to me, the air bubbles are usually a dead giveaway.

 

I do not agree that 7 is anthelia. In that pic alone, it does look like it might be, but when I look at your other pics, I see this stuff spread all around.

Anthelia has longer 'tentacles' than that. These are all short tentacle like Xenia.

 

well here are some pics to help out

xenia -


Anthelia -


notice how the xenia stalks are much longer and thinner than anthelias are, these look like anthelias that have not been fully acclimated yet. But call them what you want, there still cool looking either way