ID.. can't get pic though!

[Airborneguy]

So my power went out last night, and I did a lot of stirring to keep the tank from going stagnant, but it gave me a chance to really see it in the dark, and I found something really wierd. It almost looks like an anemone, but it has little bulbs on the tips of the tentacles. It is clear under light, but from certain angles, has a flourescent green tint to it. I looks like a clear button polyp almost, and it retracted into the sand as soon as my MH's came on this morning. I can't get a picture because it is too clear and small. I don't think it's aptasia. Any ideas?

Oh, and thankfully the power canme back on and everything is doing fine.

 

[Lorna]

could be a majano anemone....not a good thing.....but a pic is really necessary to really id it.

 

[Joe Fish]

I vote majano as well. I had a few of these in my tank and I was never able to get rid of them all. Definitely stung anything close to it.

 

[Airborneguy]

Aren't majano slightly brownish? I'll have to try to get a pic tonight when the lights are off. It didn't retract from my flashlight, maybe I can get one that way. I also found something in a shell which looked like a tiger stiped, multi legged worm. Some "legs" were extended as far as like 3 inches across the sand.

 

[Joe Fish]

They can be brownish, but some also have a very nice green color.

Does it look like or sound like something from this page?
AnemoniaFAQs

 

[Airborneguy]

None of those resemble it. I'll try to get a pic tonight, but its gonna be tough. Making it worse is that it is in the sand, under an overhang from LR which is only maybe 1 inch off the sand, so its wedged in there. The disk is pretty big though, close to the size of a dime, but it only comes off the sand maybe 1/4 inch, if that much.

 

[kay-bee19]

Very clear/transparent tentacles with orange/yellow ball-tips?

Possbily a 'ball corallimorph' (pseudocorynactis sp.).

Photos in these links:
Orange Ball Corallimorph (Pseudocorynactis caribbeorum)

Orange Ball Corallimorph Reproduction Photo Gallery by Ellen Muller at pbase.com

 

[Airborneguy]

I think that's it... the first pic is REALLY close. Are they bad? It's actually extremely beautiful looking.

 

[TRe]

ther not bad... ive noticed them in my tanks for years and no harm was ever done

 

[di0nysus]

i have those too i didnt know how to decribe them or couldnt get a good picture but mine are all clear no orange no color at all... is it the same thing you think?

 

[kay-bee19]

Possibly if the tentacles tip shape are exactly the same (it could also be something entirely different).

Incidently, I've got a much larger orange-ball corallimorph (entirely different species but same genus as the one's in question which stay small). Fully expanded it has the diameter of an outstretched hand and fully obscures the fist-sized rock its attached to.

I keep it in a solitary set up due to it's highly predatory/territorial nature.

 

[Airborneguy]

It came out again last night and I got a better look at it. The little bulbs on the tips are more of a tan color than orange, and around the endge of the disk there is a flourescent green color if I hit it with a flashlight. You can't see it at all under moonlights or actinics, only when I shine the flashlight directly on it. And there's defiantely no way I'm getting a picture unless it gets bigger.