Hel with ID - button polyp?

[plakatos]

Hi all again, last week I got a small piece of rock which has 4 different types of zoas on it plus the larger polyps in the photo (at the wonderful Greenich Aquaria store). The largest one is about 1.5 inch in diameter, and it has a very wide 'stalk'. When I was looking around on the net for pictures to ID them, the closest looking things I found were button polyps. Do you think they are button polyps indeed? I was so excited in the store (this was my first coral purchase), that I simply forgot to ask:bigeyes2: .
Thank you in advance!

 

[House of Laughter]

MOjano anemones - pests for some, beautiful to others.

HTH

House

 

[marki24]

Yep its Mojano

 

[duke62]

just a dumb question but why are they considered pests is it because they multiply so quickly or can they hurt others in the tank.sorry to hijack

 

[plakatos]

Thank you for your help!

Duke62 - I was going to ask the same thing.

 

[reefman]

just a dumb question but why are they considered pests is it because they multiply so quickly or can they hurt others in the tank.sorry to hijack

yes and yes :smile:
it aint dumb

 

[Craig]

Joe's Juice those suckers before they start to multiply

 

[House of Laughter]

Joe's Juice those suckers before they start to multiply

And multiply they will.

Get em out before it's too late

House

 

[duke62]

yeah i posted this yesterday im going to take rock out and pick them off i only have 4 that i can see

 

[tosiek]

make sure you get the foot of it off the right way or it will regen back. Joes juice or kalk paste is better.

 

[DevIouS]

You can see how irritated your zoos look.:happysad:


Turn the flow off when injecting them with Kalk or Joe's Juice.

 

[plakatos]

Normally the zoos don't seem to be bothered by them, a snail was irritating them at the time I took the picture. I talked to Rob at the Greenwich Aquaria store and he said it might be a species of the Protopalythoa genus. I started to look at photos and descriptions, and I think he might be right because I find more similarity to these guys then to Mojanos.
Do Mojanos close up around small food particles like the insect-eating plants? Beacuse these guys do it all the time. Also, when they 'go to sleep' at night, they fold their arms under themselves, and kind of turn inside out, so usually only the fluorescent green part of the polyp is visible.
Sorry for all the questions but as you can see I really try to save these guys.
Peter

 

[DevIouS]

Normally the zoos don't seem to be bothered by them, a snail was irritating them at the time I took the picture. Do Mojanos close up around small food particles like the insect-eating plants? Peter

Yes they do.


Sorry dude. That's not a snail irritation.
Look at all the zoos in the area that the tentacles are touching. The surrounding zoos are closed & some of them are folding up.....trying to pull away from them.

 

[ReeferGoneMad]

So do the palys that the guy from greenwich aquaria explained to you about. But those do look like majanos. Either way majanos or palys they will sting zoas. They look so pretty, heck if you can frag them ill take them.

 

[plakatos]

Thank you for all your replies, I decided to keep and observe them for a while, since I don't have many corals in my tank yet. If they start to multiply like crazy, I'll get rid of them.
ReeferGoneMad - I let you know if I plan to get rid of some, but you'll have to tell me how to 'frag them', because I have no idea.
Peter

 

[plakatos]

Ok, I got home, and I changed my mind, because I was watching the mojanos and DevIouS is right, everything they tuch seems to be irritated by them.
So I decided it is time for a kill :happysad: .
ReeferGoneMad - sorry but I don't think I could 'frag them', they seem to sit in pretty deep holes in the rock.

Thank you again for all your help!

 

[ReeferGoneMad]

Palys sting everything they touch as well. When they close are they all connected like zoas? Aww man. Are they smooth around the mouth or do they have raised lines.they are so pretty.

 

[plakatos]

They were smooth around the mouth, and they werent connected, each of them was in a different hole, the foot was pretty deep in the rock.

 

[ReeferGoneMad]

Majanos. Nuke'em.. Pretty things need to die too. Lol