ID Help

[Coralczy]

So I think I might have found the ultimate mystery. Went to pick up a shark egg today and grabbed this while I was there. It's shaped like a acorn, spiny, and as my husband puts it squishy. Anybody care to try and figure this out?

 

[user 26995]

Well we really need a better pic. Is this something you bought at an LFS? Nobody where you got it told you what it is? Is it a sponge?

 

[Coralczy]

It came in a shipment. Was not ordered so they have no clue. It's not a sponge and was still in its original shipping bag when I brought it home.

 

[TJL]

Hard to tell from the ^above^ picture although resembles what I find on our local beaches. The common Puget Sound Shoreline Snails mass spawn and leave rocks or pieces of debris absolutely covered in creamy yellow elongate eggs. Sometimes they are free-stone, meaning that just layer upon layer of eggs in masses as large Cantaloupes not attached to anything but each other.
So now, I'm interested in a better pic to see what they really are.

Cheers, Todd

 

[Coralczy]

Ok so I turned the lights off and just turned them back on to get a pic. Now it has opened to this.

 

[TJL]

Ah, some kind of Tube Anemone.... will have to look it up from one of books tomorrow and post it up for you if no one has already.

Cheers, Todd

 

[Coralczy]

If you find the answer I would love to know. I have many different anemones and have never seen one like this.

 

[NanaReefer]

It's an ALIEN!!!


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[user 26995]

OH WOW...thats so cool!

 

[Coralczy]

Mystery solved. It's a Xmas tree coral

 

[user 26995]

That is really cool. Never seen one before.

 

[Coralczy]

It goes by other names. Haven't been here long enough for me to say what name I'm calling it because most don't know me yet. But for those that do if you look it up you'll know and giggle with me. Lol

 

[DTECH07]

 

[user 26995]

It goes by other names. Haven't been here long enough for me to say what name I'm calling it because most don't know me yet. But for those that do if you look it up you'll know and giggle with me. Lol

LOL...yeah, we will just stick with xmas tree coral!!!

 

[TJL]

Well be careful until you know for absolute sure...... it also looks sort of like a Hells Fire Anemone like in the link below. YIKES!

Family Actinodendronidae - Hell's Fire Sea Anemones

Cheers, Todd

 

[NemCrazy]

Whoa I would take a look at that link it has some good pics for ID. And I would agree with Todd from the pics you provided. The first looked like a retracted or stressed nem and the second looks almost like Kenya trees but are individual tentacles. I've heard reports that the sting is unbelievably painful and can last a long time. Be very wary until you can get a different ID. I wanted one for awhile until I heard of the horror of being stung

 

[Coralczy]

Well be careful until you know for absolute sure...... it also looks sort of like a Hells Fire Anemone like in the link below. YIKES!

Family Actinodendronidae - Hell's Fire Sea Anemones

Cheers, Todd

I wish I was lucky enough to come by one of those for free. I am a nem addict. I'm become immune to the sting of both my haddoni and my tube anemone. I love the strange and scary part of this hobby.

 

[Coralczy]

Hubby touched it last night to move it and there was no sting so pretty sure it's a Xmas tree coral. Not very colorful but a pretty cool coral in its own right.