New live rock hitch hiker.

[Mikenhecker1]

I recently bought live rock and this was growing on it






It was rough to the touch and its orange and tan. Kinda layered lookin but solid. Does anyone know what it is. I hope it lives. Well I think I hope it lives. Might not be good

 

[Mikenhecker1]

Anybody?

 

[Mikenhecker1]

Some updated pictues the orange one is starting to not look so good. And the red one is another unknown it's kinda bubbly and half of it is either extending or dying. I don't know. Any advise or insite would be helpful

 

[mr_X]

Looks like tunicates to me. They don't seem to do well when exposed to air. It could be nothing you are doing.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

You think they are both tunacates? I hope they make it but everything I read about them seems like they would be harder to keep. The orange and tan one is hard as a rock and I think the discoloration in the middle is where I touched it. I hope that's not why it's dying. Thanks Mr_X.

 

[mr_X]

I'm not 100% sure, but tunicates come in many shapes and sizes. Yes, they are definitely not easy. Don't get your hopes up.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

Here are some better pics. I added some prime and I hope it helps

 

[Mikenhecker1]

The reddish orange one could pass as a tunacate but the orange and tan one has no holes witch look to be a trademark of the tunacates.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

Best candidates I could find

 

[Mikenhecker1]

Ok I have recently found some more new things on my new liverock. And the critters I knew about that were sick are doing better now.

First off, the known critters. The red and the orange and tan I think are doing better. The red one not so much.




It's got some sediment on it. Should I blow the stuff off or will that aggravate the coral.


The orange and tan one. Found another small piece growing somewhere else.







The bleached spot in the middle, is it dead or too hard to tell?

Ok one of the new corals is an lps I think.



And the last two could be a coralline algae that I've never seen. Or maybe some kinda coral, maybe someone can figure it out. The dark purple and the red stuff.











I don't have a clue. Thanks everyone, y'all make this way better for everyone that wants to get into this hobby.

 

[mr_X]

Yes, algae for the pink and purple, but i don't see any coral at all in any of those pics.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

It's small, there's only one and its tentacles are clear with a light dusting of white. It retracted when I picker it up but the tentacles at usually about 3/8 of an inch long.

 

[mr_X]

Google "corynactis". See if that's what you have.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

Sure will.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

This one is close but no yellow in mine.




Looks just like this one but mine is clear and the skeleton is kinda green in the cracks. Probably recovering from a near death experience. I thought I saw some flouresense in the actinic light but idk.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

Do these turn into a larger colony or is it just a polyp here and there.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

Man I was drilling a hole in a 55 gal tank I got for 15 bucks, must have been tempered lol because it shattered. :-( I got half way through, figured if it was gonna break it would have already. I figured wrong.

 

[mr_X]

Do these turn into a larger colony or is it just a polyp here and there.

It won't turn into much of anything. No need to worry about it if that's what it is.

 

[Mikenhecker1]

I think the red thing is making a comeback. I blew it off this morning and it is bright red again. There are two white areas on it that look dead ( very small areas) and it is making a point.









And the orange one is still getting better. Found some rock in there today that looked like it had something dead in it. Half of the rock looked fine but the other half was white and the holes in the rock were black. So I took it outside and broke it open and got the dead stuff out. Then I threw the rocks back in. Other than that everything looks fine.

 

[mr_X]

I think exposing it to air is not a good idea.