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    Posted: June 05 2008 at 6:14pm
This is the animal described in my Black and White Spiral thread:

http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26021

I have another organism that I am currently watching. It is a round-topped red bump on a rock. Last night when I put some of my home made frozen food in the tank it protruded what looked like some stubby feeder like things. After a period of time it went back to its normal round-topped shape.

Here it is pretty open, but a little fuzzy (bad glass angle and surface ripple. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it!! Wink )




Closed up a little do to top off water being added before thinking about changing the angle and getting a little closer.



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looks like a little anemone to me
out with the large and in with the nano
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It looks like a coralimorph probably a warm water relative of the Strawberry Anemone. I have them in my tank too. I have found them to be harmless and not a pest.
 
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This thing REALLY hates my 150 MH.

Here it is WIDE open under just the T5's:




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Mike hit that head on.  Strawberry anemone is what you have there!
 
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does anyone have some strawberry anemones i can get?
pitiful guppy tank.
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Originally posted by pa_reptileman_4 pa_reptileman_4 wrote:

does anyone have some strawberry anemones i can get?

Nope, I only have the one in the pic that I know of.

I do have THIS though!!!!!

http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26265

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Great picture!
 
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Where do they come from?
Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!



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Strawberry anemones come from the Pacific Ocean along the west coast of North America. It is likely that the anemone pictured is a warm water relative of the Strawberry Anemone from a warmer part of the Pacific and came as a hitchhiker on live rock.

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Do they reproduce and multiply by sexual or division?
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Both but I think division is most common.
 
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