Anemone ID

I am now quite certain what I have is not a beady anemone, but a frilly anemone (Phymanthus sp.) It looks very similar to this:

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elegance coral said:
It's phymanthus. The Pacific/Indian ocean version of E. crucifer. Cool little anemones.
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Does anybody know the genus name of this? And how large will it grow? Does it split naturally?

At first people suggested it was a beaded anemone of sorts, but as it grew larger it was easier to see that the tentacles are not beaded but frilly.

EDIT: After looking at pictures of Phymanthus cruficer (formerly E. crucifer), I don't think this is the right ID either. P. crucifer is more beaded, while mine is definitely more frilly.
 
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Phymanthus is the genus name. The species in this genus are to hard to tell apart. E. crucifer is a completely different animal. It lives in the Atlantic/Caribbean. Phymanthus lives in the Pacific/Indian ocean area. As far as we are concerned, they can be very similar, though. They both remain relatively small, they can be found in every color imaginable, the central oral disk is void of tentacles, they have exceptional prey capture abilities, they live in the rocks, they don't tend to move much after they get settled, and I'm sure there are other similarities that I left off. All in all they're cool little anemones that don't cause many problems in aquariums.
 
elegance coral said:
Phymanthus is the genus name. The species in this genus are to hard to tell apart. E. crucifer is a completely different animal.
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Phymanthus crucifer was formerly named Epicystis crucifer, so some taxonomic revision has been made here.

Anyways, mine is definitely some kind of Phymanthus, and I have seen pictures of something called "plain frilly Phymanthus" and mine was very similar.

WDLV said:
H. aurora.
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Heteractis aurora is also called the Beaded Sea Anemone, and mine is not beaded (it does not have "beads" on its tentacles), but rather "frilly" (it looks like small pseudo-tentacles growing on the tentacles, giving the tentacles a frilly appearance.

Hence , I don't think this is Heteractis aurora, and if people tend to call "frilly" anemones H. aurora, then I fear a lot of mislabelling is going on.

WDLV said:
BTW, what the heck kind of substrate is that?
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It came with my Red Seam Max 130 tank. It's produced by Red Sea and it's an aragonite based substrate. Check it out here:http://www.redseafish.com/Prod188.asp
 
Yes, I agree it does, because of my lousy photographs. I really need to get a better camera with macro so I can get a close-up of the frilly tentacles.

That is btw a very beautiful anemone.
 
I still haven't got a camera with good macro function, but I managed to take a picture where the tentacles show a little better. They are not as frilly as those on the picture above, but still not beady as pictures of H. aurora (see this picture). I still think it is a Phymanthus sp.

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That one is very similar! Thank you! Here's a picture from today:

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It's come a long way :)
 
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Wow, it looks beautiful. Yeah, you were right. It's not H. aurora, but the frilly anemone, Phymanthus genus, from Indonesia. They are found on Singapore. From what I've read, they are very hardy and can asexually reproduce. You've done a great job of bringing it back.
 
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