Anemone ID Help

[seanm001]

I picked up this anemone over the weekend. It was sold as a purple-tipped anemone, and I'm thinking it's maybe H. crispa?

Any help in identifying the species and any specific care requirements / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Under combined white & actinic light, it's a bright purple color and under just actinics the purple turns to an electric blue. The foot is bright yellow, much brighter than in the picture below.

When I placed it in the tank, I set it on the flattish rock you see behind it in this picture. It migrated to the sand / rock interface here:

And here's another shot in the same spot:

It decided to go on walkabout yesterday, and you can see its yellow foot as it strolls along:

And then last night it settled into the sand about eight inches to the right of the previous location and between two rocks:

Thanks,
Sean

 

[garygb]

Yeah, looks like a bleached H. crispa to me.

 

[seanm001]

Thanks for the input. I'm running a 175W metal halide with 2 65W PC actinics. I'm assuming this should be sufficient lighting at about 20" depth? I heard that iodine can help the zooxanthellae to recover. Is this treatment worth considering? Any special foods (other than usual anemone food) or vitamins I should feed it?

 

[garygb]

I think you should be fine with 175 MH. I would say the 10-14K range would be preferable. Zooxanthellae is an algae and that is why the iodine is sometimes recommended, since algae responds well to the addition of iodine. Frankly, simply providing good lighting and the usual anemone foods will provide the conditions necessary for the anemone to recover the zooxanthellae.

 

[seanm001]

Thanks for the advice!