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Old 08-05-2007, 07:43 PM
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Hi everyone!

I am new to the whole salwater aquarium hobby, and I have one concern currently. I bought a 29gal Biocube from Oceanic at my LFS. The owner seems very nice and helped us set up the tank by giving us already cured live rock from his tank and water right out of his tanks as well. We also bought live sand. We set the tank up, let it clear up for a few days and then bought a Margarita snail, a Cleaner shrimp, two tiny Hermet crabs and a Damsel to help the tank cycle (the store owner said that this would probably not take as long or be as severe as normal since we basically transported part of a biological system into our new tank). We are still going to wait 3-4 weeks to add the 2 Clowns and an Anemone that we envision completing this tank (other than the soft corals we hope to add piece by piece in the future). Since the live rock came from our LFS's own tanks, we imported some unintentional life. We got a few mushroom corals, maybe a sponge or two and a couple of brittle stars that we have not seen since putting the stuff all in. A couple of days after we set it up, we noticed what appears to be an anemone in the back of the tank, on a rock. It has not moved from that location, which I am not sure is ideal for an anemone (if it is, in fact, an anemone). I was wondering if I could have some help identifying this unintentional part of our aquarium. As it is in the back, it might be difficult to see in the pictures, but it is in the background behind the cleaner shrimp that tried to steal the show! I am worried that it might be a condy and be dangerous to the other stuff that we have.

Thanks for the help!

P.S. Sorry that the pic is so small, it is the max size allowed, and there is a rock partially obscuring the anemone. It is only about an inch tall and is mostly transparent with a little browning towards the end of the tendrils.
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