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05/01/2018, 10:33 AM
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Anemone ID
Hello fellow reefers!
I have an anemone I was hoping to get some help with an ID. I was sold to me as a bubble tip but was very small and bleached. It has since grown and colored up quite a bit and a number of people have said it looks more like a long tentacle than a bubble tip. Any thoughts? |
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05/01/2018, 10:37 AM
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Anemone ID
Sorry here's some better pics.
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05/08/2018, 08:01 PM
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05/08/2018, 09:03 PM
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definitely not a long tentacle anemone.
most likely a bubble tip. has it always been in that rocky crevice? do you have any pictures of its mouth?
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05/08/2018, 10:13 PM
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Get picture of the mouth and of the column. These will help ID this anemone. I agree that it is not a LTA
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05/09/2018, 12:05 PM
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That could even be a mag just looking at tentacles, but agree that is not best for ID, we need to see foot and base to be sure, but also agree definitely not LTA
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05/10/2018, 10:53 AM
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Thank you all for the responses.
It made its' home between the rock and sand bed and never moved. I'll try to get a picture of the mouth/base. The base is light pink almost like a leather coral. |
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05/10/2018, 10:54 AM
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Oh and what's a mag anemone?
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05/10/2018, 11:00 AM
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Mag (or Magnifica or Ritteri) is a short name we often use for Heteractis magnifica. Heteractis ritteri was one of the older names for this species.
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05/10/2018, 11:59 AM
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Yeah, and I'm not sure why but seems many vendors lately seem to be going back to using ritteri for ID which sometimes adds to confusion, and still that was just a guess based on those small pics, which really means nothing much w/out seeing the foot and base under natural/non actinic lighting.
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