Neat Softy

[JeremyR]

This softy is growing spontaneously on the back wall of our snail tank. I'm not sure where it came from, or why it chose to attatch there as there is no coralline in that tank. I've been watching it since it was only a couple of polyps, and it's getting to be a decent size and growing well. It appears to be in the dendronepthya group, tho it isn't in the dendro genus I don't think. Photo could be better, but it's on the very back wall and those DAS tanks for some reason have terrible front glass glare, even with the room lights out.

http://members.aol.com/craquarium/softy.jpg

 

[Mike A]

Wow, that's pretty cool.

Have you ever stocked anything similar in your systems or do you think it's possible that it may have piggyback'd in with a snail ?

 

[~Flighty~]

Those look like the non photosynthertic coral that grow all over in fiji

 

[JeremyR]

We don't get corals like that often, but once or twice we have.. I don't remember if I ever had them in that tank, not alot goes in there coral wise... but I must have put some rock in there at some point that it came from. I have gotten coral hitchhikers on snails before, mainly carib porites. I don't think we get any snails from pacific regions where these softies come from.

 

[~Flighty~]

here is a better closeup

 

[GinaD]

Very cool.

Whoever won the blue mushroom rock at the auction has one of those on it as a hitchhiker. It has probably 8 or 9 polyps. I thought about trying to remove it so I could keep it, but then thought it was too small and delicate and I may kill it in the process.

 

[Stimpy]

When do we get some frags???

Just Saw I GOT A BLUE MUSHROOM ROCK AT AUCTION..
didnt notice anything hitchhiking.
I will frag off all the shrooms to find it.... (kidding)
Gotta go check it out now.
Bye