Please help me identify this anemone.

[CD.Priest]

Hello everyone, I'm new here and hope to learn and then help as much as I can. I need some help identifying this thing, I think it's some sort of anemone, but not sure. Is it? Is it bad/good? If bad, how do I get ride of it? Thanks for any help!

 

[Hocky puck]

Hitch hikers? Aptsina?

 

[Holygral]

There are several ways to get rid of it, they will quickly overrun you tank. Smother it with a thick kalk paste, injected it with boiling water, lemon juice or Joes juice. Better do something fast, and if you have one that big, you probably have hundreds more that you haven't seen or found yet.

 

[Petrichor]

It looks like a Curly Q anemone, which I don't think are as bad as glass anemones (the typical invasive aiptasia). Curly Qs belong to the same family but have different behaviours.

I wouldn't go nuking it just yet. From what I've read Curly Qs don't reproduce anywhere near as fast as other aiptasia and can be kept happily in a tank without the fear of it reproducing like mad. There's lots of results on Google of people keeping Curly Q anemones, and even buying them on purpose. Not all aiptasia anemones are THE aiptasia anemones every is taught to fear.

 

[Madcrazyroyboy]

It's a curly Cue. Don't touch the tentacles they do have a sting.

 

[Wendy8184]

I have a curly q anenome and i absolutely love it! I is soo interesting