Anemone ID please.
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mrbncal
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I'd be more inclined to call this a magnifica before teh other one in question. But before I jumped on one side of the fence or the other, I would need more photos 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13014435#post13014435 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kris4647
You guys are convincing me although we are doing it without pictures.
Since we are putting so much into tentacle tip bulging, how a bout an ID this little fella?
Flighty
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Kris's photo looks like a mgnifica to me, but clearly not enough info here for a positive id. The thing that does it for me is the solid tips to the tentacles that are comon in magnificas and rarer, but no unheard of in BTAs.
I lean slightly towards magnifica also with the original poster possibly because of bias since I have a small magnifica with almost identical base color that shows no verrucae (sp?).
In my experience, how it plants its foot once it settles and starts growing always tells the id ( unless it climbs the glass, then you still may not know) Going under a rock after shipping is not uncommon for a magnifica.
I'll throw my experience in too seeing many BTAs with bifurcated tentacles and magnificas with bubbles. The bubbles on magnificas I have seen look like the little distinct balls a bit down on the tentacle and the magnifica will have a pointed tip slender tentacle at this time. At other times (coinciding with lower flow) that same magnifica will show the blunt ended or bubbled ended tips and thick tentacle that the above photo shows.
I lean slightly towards magnifica also with the original poster possibly because of bias since I have a small magnifica with almost identical base color that shows no verrucae (sp?).
In my experience, how it plants its foot once it settles and starts growing always tells the id ( unless it climbs the glass, then you still may not know) Going under a rock after shipping is not uncommon for a magnifica.
I'll throw my experience in too seeing many BTAs with bifurcated tentacles and magnificas with bubbles. The bubbles on magnificas I have seen look like the little distinct balls a bit down on the tentacle and the magnifica will have a pointed tip slender tentacle at this time. At other times (coinciding with lower flow) that same magnifica will show the blunt ended or bubbled ended tips and thick tentacle that the above photo shows.
FWIW, all of my RBTAs have split and even oddly malformed, tentacles. I agree with Scott that it's probably due to mechanical damage - most of which is caused by my pair of GSMs, but some can be attributed to me being careless with the siphon tube occasionally.
Kevin
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kris4647
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Yup I just found a bifurcated tentacle on my green BTA.
I dunno, I still lean Mag but either way its a good looking nem.
I didnt mean to sidetrack the thread btw, my picture is of a Mag I got from a sponsor a few weeks ago. Never seen such blunt uniform tentacle length and diameter in a Mag before.
I dunno, I still lean Mag but either way its a good looking nem.
I didnt mean to sidetrack the thread btw, my picture is of a Mag I got from a sponsor a few weeks ago. Never seen such blunt uniform tentacle length and diameter in a Mag before.
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