anemone id with pics

[kau_cinta_ku]

ok first of all yes i know it is bleached. but the price was good so I thought i would take the chance and try to help it. i am not gonna say what i paid for it yet or what they had it listed at until i get some opinions of what you think it is. to me it looks kinda like abeaded sea anemone. what do you think. these are pics of it aculimating.

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

or a LTA

 

[GuOD]

Rock/Flower anemone?

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

now that is something i know it isn't i already have alot of them in the tank lol

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

also could you tell me if he looks ok besides being bleached? i mean with proper feedings and lighting is he saveable?

 

[vaporize]

Heteractis aurora, host to baby clownfish only.
Reference: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/cnidaria/anthozoa/anemones.htm

It's not easiest but you might be able to bring in it back to health. I used to do something similiar but nowadays I know that better to 'encourage' LFS selling poor specimens.

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

thanks, that is what i thought it was. and don't get me wrong i didn't buy it to encurage the LFS to keep getting them, but the wife has been wanting an anemone for a very long time and well for 5.00 i figured here is her chance for an anemone. and she didn't care if it hosted clowns our clowns or not as they are already hosting our toadstool but she didn't want a condy

 

[marc price]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10686834#post10686834 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vaporize
Heteractis aurora, host to baby clownfish only.
Reference: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/cnidaria/anthozoa/anemones.htm

you might want to rethink that http://www.oceanfootage.com/stockfootage/Clown_Anemone_Fish/start_41 click on the 33rd pic. AG13_075

and btw his anemone is a small lta m. doreensis.

 

[vaporize]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10699561#post10699561 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by marc price
you might want to rethink that http://www.oceanfootage.com/stockfootage/Clown_Anemone_Fish/start_41 click on the 33rd pic. AG13_075

and btw his anemone is a small lta m. doreensis.

I dont understand what you want to show with AG13_075?

I'm not sold that it is a M.doreensis from the tenacle shape.

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

well i admit that one also looks like it to me. lol which is why i asked for an id to start with cause i thought it was either the beaded sea anemone or LTA cause they look the same to me.

now for the good news. after acculimating him and putting him in the tank. he burried his foot in the sand right away and opened up very nicely. the last couple days i have been feeding him chunks of shrimp, and at first took him a while to eat it (guessing because it wasn't the healtyist) but now will eat it within a min. which is a good sign I take it.

 

[marc price]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10699735#post10699735 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vaporize
I dont understand what you want to show with AG13_075?

I'm not sold that it is a M.doreensis from the tenacle shape.

1) look at the size difference of the two clownfish, i don't think the one on the left is a juvenile. unlike the juvenile in AG13_051, which also has a good picture of the verrucae.

if you scroll up to AG13_49 you'll get a better idea of the size of that clownfishes relative to it's anemone.

2) i'm not either, it's small size and column are another thing to look at. his pictures only show so much, but i have seen lots of small m. doreensis which looked exactly like his, changing tentacle shape as they've grown.

i didn't respond to this thread to start an argument. i have read somewhere other than your wetweb ref. (didn't open it), about only juveniles hosting but also seem to remember something about a. clarkii being an exception (not positive), i don't know, draw you own conclusions. i'm still looking for photographic proof of a. percula/h. crispa in the field. anyway, what ever the case may be, in time he'll know it's true i.d.

 

[vaporize]

Sorry, about it being sound like an arguement. And thanks for the videos, those are interesting, I did take alook at most of them.

 

[marc price]

my fault, was in a hurry and forgot to put imo after btw and yeah the videos are cool.

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10686834#post10686834 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vaporize
Heteractis aurora, host to baby clownfish only.
Reference: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/inverts/cnidaria/anthozoa/anemones.htm

It's not easiest but you might be able to bring in it back to health. I used to do something similiar but nowadays I know that better to 'encourage' LFS selling poor specimens.

It's a M. Doreensis.

Since when has Heteractis Aurora is been only a host to baby clownfish?