Help ID Quick Please

[john26]

Help quick please, I'm thinking a BTA but please lemme know thanks.

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Terrible iPhone pics but hope you get a good look. Thanks

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Another pic

 

[john26]

Want to make sure this is not a rock flower anemone.

 

[Jaycen B.]

Looks like a Majano nem, torch it.

 

[john26]

I was thinking that but it has a clear vivid mouth and the tentacles are pretty thick and nice colors.

 

[acroholic]

Yuppers, looks like a majano.

 

[john26]

In that case not making the purchase then. Thanks!

 

[acroholic]

John26;690580 wrote: In that case not making the purchase then. Thanks!

Is someone trying to sell you that?

 

[coolsurf]

Acroholic;690584 wrote: Is someone trying to sell you that?

I was wondering the same thing? I hope not.

 

[peaches7412]

John26;690580 wrote: In that case not making the purchase then. Thanks!

Some LFS (not to be named) was going to sell me live rock covered in aiptasia back when I first started and thought that it was a neat little organism. Didn't buy it though(didn't really have the money) and when I learned what the anemone actually was, I won't go to that fish store again.

 

[john26]

Acroholic;690584 wrote: Is someone trying to sell you that?

Sadly yes, I knew better but I just wants to make sure. I've never seen aiptasia look like this little guy before so I was uncertain really. It has thicker arms than the average aiptasia, has alternating colors among the tentacles.

Edit: Wanted*

 

[jennm]

A mojano for certain.

A certain now-out-of-business LFS sold a maintenance customer of ours a rock full of the stuff once We never did manage to get it eradicated - raccoon butterfly and countless chemical applications were a no-go.

Heck back in 2000, I was sold a rock with an aiptasia, knowingly, by a "kid" who worked in a LFS here in Metro. I'd had live rock 15 years earlier but had never seen aiptasia and when I saw the cute little anemone, the "kid" told me it was a free bonus.

That "kid" now writes articles in magazines and reef blogs and most people would recognize his name.

Jenn

 

[john26]

I'm really glad I didn't get this then. I've seen aiptasia but none like this one before. It would have been a wasteful 10 dollars.

 

[stacy22]

John26;690618 wrote: I'm really glad I didn't get this then. I've seen aiptasia but none like this one before. It would have been a wasteful 10 dollars.

This is not aiptasia. It is a majano. Glad you didn't get it.

 

[john26]

And here I was thinking that majano and aiptasia were one of the same. I've never seen a majano until now, thanks everyone.

 

[slowjazz]

John26;690712 wrote: And here I was thinking that majano and aiptasia were one of the same. I've never seen a majano until now, thanks everyone.

Thinking to self... And by the time you got to the bottom of this thread there could be two or more majano's in the tank. (they like to grow and grow fast)