Anemone ID help...
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Jamie1210
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+1
With that said, i need to commend the OP for taking all the criticism in stride....ive seen a lot of these types of threads where the OP gets defensive, the discussion gets heated, and the thread gets shut down. Kudos to you for being nice about it all.
And, fwiw, i know nothing about infernos, but i thought the tips were supposed to be yellow, not green??
Lol dont kill me guys!
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They should all be green considering all the green they go for. Good gawd....insane. Having said that...I'll take one. Lol
Bryanmc1988
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Thanks coraladdiction and Jamie for your understanding. This was never about money. I bought an anemone and wanted verification of type and was it worth what I paid for. There is no need for me to be upset over internet drama. Some people love it and some hate it, in the end my life including many others will move on with our days after 
anyways thanks for all the support and advices. Happy reefing everyone....
anyways thanks for all the support and advices. Happy reefing everyone....
davocean
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I think the point some people may have been trying to make is w/ lighting, you can make a plain ol brown or even bleached white anemone look amazing, so looking at that bright purple water it's obviously not being shown as it's true natural color, so critiquing green tips and such is kind of pointless, we're just looking at what light color is being thrown at it.
It might be nice to see what it actually looks like under normal/natural lighting if you are looking for ID
It might be nice to see what it actually looks like under normal/natural lighting if you are looking for ID
CoralsAddiction
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Good point on lighting.
Here's a rainbow I had last year and good chance OP's anemone would look like it under more white lighting.
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BonsaiNut
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Thanks coraladdiction and Jamie for your understanding. This was never about money. I bought an anemone and wanted verification of type and was it worth what I paid for. There is no need for me to be upset over internet drama. Some people love it and some hate it, in the end my life including many others will move on with our days after
Let me restate my post then in a different way:
There is no such thing as an inferno BTA.
There are simply species (in this case Entacmaea quadricolor) or more commonly Bubble Tip anemone or BTA. Then there are color morphs... which unless you can trace your lineage directly back via cloning to a parent anemone, your color morph is as good as anyone else's.
I am not trying to be critical - I am just stating a fact.
I can never tell when people ask a question on this forum whether they are being serious and want the real answer... or whether they just want an answer that makes them feel good.
BonsaiNut
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FWIW if you get the opportunity to see these anemones in the wild you will understand what I'm talking about. They grow in clonal groups that number hundreds of individuals. There can be many different clonal groups over the surface of a single reef. BTA's reproduce sexually as well as asexually, so the asexual clones will share the same color morphology as their clonal siblings, while sexual siblings may look very dissimilar.
I have seen reefs in Fiji covered with "rose" BTA groups - many of which looked slightly different from each other. Do you call them all the same color morph? How many fancy names can you come up with... because you will run out of them pretty quickly when faced with the numerical potential of different color combinations across millions of square miles of South Pacific reefs...
I have seen reefs in Fiji covered with "rose" BTA groups - many of which looked slightly different from each other. Do you call them all the same color morph? How many fancy names can you come up with... because you will run out of them pretty quickly when faced with the numerical potential of different color combinations across millions of square miles of South Pacific reefs...
davocean
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That would be my guess as well, and that looks nice to me, but I like my tank to look more like ocean, less like black light poster, and I think that is often the source of comments like on this post.
It's kinda become my peeve as well that it seems so many ID requests are just a sea of purple or blue, and there's no way to really id or comment accurately on those.
I agree to each their own on what you like to look at, but for true ID we need true lighting.
CoralsAddiction
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Yes, a very nice rainbow BTA
davocean
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I agree, the made up names further ID confusion, sales hype, inferno, black widow, lemon drops, all BTA's w/ a name that just makes them more expensive, and often leaves the new nem keeper disappointed on it's arrival.
Bryanmc1988
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From a local store in San Diego. A mom and pop shop. When I ask them what kind it was, they couldn't tell me but only said it was "œrare".
BonsaiNut
Premium Member
I'm sure they did
Most mom and pops can't tell the difference between a BTA and a Condy.
dodgerblew
Team RC
this is a better looking post then the nem itself. Jamie you beat me to it and Bryan I can honestly say I wouldn't of handled this with the integrity class you did.
Bryanmc1988
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I don’t have a picture of it under normal lighting as I removed it from it’s holding cup into a hole in my rock works now. If it pops out of the hole, I’ll make sure I get a photo of it under 10k lighting.
[MENTION=50210]dodgerblew[/MENTION]: I’ve been around the block before and sometimes you just run into haters you can’t let them bring you down to their level. Sometimes you just have to smile and turn the other way. In the end, your the one walking away with the smile and then standing there looking dumb )
[MENTION=50210]dodgerblew[/MENTION]: I’ve been around the block before and sometimes you just run into haters
you can’t let them bring you down to their level. Sometimes you just have to smile and turn the other way. In the end, your the one walking away with the smile and then standing there looking dumb )Bryanmc1988
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I’ll update this post with the photo once I get a shot of him in 10k lighting.
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