Anemone ID

[OrionN]

The column of your anemone does not look like a Malu column at all. Here is the column of my Malu. I personally keep three H. malu. All three have the same column, color, veracuae . They are sand bed anemone so it is difficult to see and get a good picture of a healthy Malu column. Below is the picture of the column of my purple tip H. Malu. As you can see, it is not anything like your column. I can't say I have seen a lot of Malu in person, but experience wise regarding keeping H. malu, there are few H. malu that been in captivity for 10 years like mine. BTW, my male Malu spawned again yesterday. I will need to see if my other Malu is a female. It did not spawn. I will check and see if it tart to carry live babies anemone in it in the next few days.

 

[Navyblue]

Do you think these are malu with naturally colored collumn?

This one looked coloured though.

 

[OrionN]

Most of those (1 st two pictures) are LTA (M. doreensis). The last picture is one of a dyed H. crispa or H. malu. I think your Malu is also dyed but magenta rather than yellow. Your anemone column looks just like Magnifica from the dye. I cannot see from the picture but it should have white veraecue on the column near the top. Magnifca and BTA can have column just as bright as your's but without visible white veraecue

 

[phender]

There are two malus in the second picture, the green one in the foreground and the brown one behind. The others except for the last pic are LTAs like Minh said.

The malu in the last pic may not be dyed. Yellow is a natural color for the columns of malu. Usually the yellow is in streaks but I have also seen naturally completely yellow columns. That particular anemone seems a little too intense to be natural, but it is possible. OTOH, I have never seen a malu with the magenta color yours has, and that color is a very popular dye color (along with yellow and pink).

 

[LesMartin]

Do you have a picture? Would love to see it.

This is when I first got it:

 

[Navyblue]

Update:

It's hard to see what is going on underneath, and I don't have a picture, but I think there is now a ring of lighter shade about 1 cm in width. Could be dye fading or it could be new growth. This is the latest picture.

Btw, I consolidated the pictures posted into a single folder, so all the past photo links are now dead. You can find all those photos here, arranged in reverse chronological order. I thought it is good to archive them as there isn't that much info on dyed anemone out there.

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/Navyblue/Aquarium/Dyed Heteractis malu/