Anemone ID Please!

[plancton]

Totaly a BTA be proud to be the first owner of a purple BTA, guys check my last post!!!.

Observation: I just bought it today but H.magnifica's foot supposedly covers the whole thing, only leaving some tentacles outside. Have you seen this?.

Mine wasn't sticky either, and I used my bare hands, it didn't sting me, H.Magnifica is more agresive, but I don't know if they sting humans anyway.

Last comment: IF it is H. magnifica it wont make it in my tank with PCs.

 

[delphinus]

Agreed with Flighty, very much a BTA behaviour. My BTAs can be planted up to 8" away from where I see their tentacles, with their column being so stretched that it looks like a garden hose snaking its way through the rockwork. Sometimes it will look like they've moved to a completely new spot but their pedal disk will be firmly planted in the same spot as ever.

 

[OCDP]

Very interesting... I am glad I noted my observations

I think this is just more for us to make a better informed guess that this is a bubble tip! ... I hear you Tony, mine was so skinny yesterday I couldn't believe it. Truly a very cool sight to see (none of my previous BTA's did this)

Cheers.

 

[plancton]

By the way OCDP, mine is on the move, it detached itself from the perfect spot where I placed it, and the current pushed it away to one corner of the tank where it cornered itself even more, in a very narrow space of bit less than an inch between the wall and a rock. There is no light over there

It attaches strongly over there, but I don't know why. there is no light over there. I use 400watts of PCs. I found it there in the morning, placed it in the perfect spot again, and current pushed it away to the same spot where there it attached strongly again.

Should I leave it there and hope for it to move by itself, since there is no light on that spot, or definetely move it manualy?.

By the way, a few years ago I had a RBTA that died because of a sea cucumber, but when I bought it, it had exactly the same behaviour of landing in that spot and hide from light. Its location was changed to the perfect spot. After some time, it stopped moving so much and when it did so, it was quite fast moving.

But I don't have a journal so I don't remember if I ended up placing it on the perfect spot, or it did by itself.

 

[OCDP]

I would leave your anemone alone , IMO. If you want/need (should never need to move it, as the anemone itself will do his on it's own) but if you want to move the anemone, instead move the rock the anemone is on.

And what we define as the "perfect spot" is not always the perfect spot for the anemone. It will settle in where it feels it is receiving the best light/flow. I am sure it will find a spot soon enough!

 

[plancton]

are you sure of that?, cuz some people say anemones could hide and die from starvation. Basically suicide.

 

[OCDP]

Well, obviously if he doesn't come out for a few days and starts looking sluggish.. then you can do your part. I am saying as of now, a newly introduced anemone should be left alone to keep stress to a minimal. But .... if it is umm comitting "suicide" Then obviously use some common sense and place him back into the light.

Have you tried feeding your anemone yet?

 

[plancton]

I left it alone, and today it is comming our of the dark looking for light, so I guess it is ok. I fed it a bit of cyclop eeze yesterday but I think it didn't eat it.

 

[OCDP]

Good to hear.

I would suggest feeding your anemone some meaty foods like mysis, shrimp, silversides, yada yada yada.. I can't imagine that they can "fill up" on cyclopeeze. I think it's more of a treat than anything