Anemone ID

rwpollack

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Hello fellow reefers!
I have an anemone I was hoping to get some help with an ID. I was sold to me as a bubble tip but was very small and bleached. It has since grown and colored up quite a bit and a number of people have said it looks more like a long tentacle than a bubble tip.
Any thoughts?
 

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definitely not a long tentacle anemone.

most likely a bubble tip.

has it always been in that rocky crevice? do you have any pictures of its mouth?
 
Get picture of the mouth and of the column. These will help ID this anemone. I agree that it is not a LTA
 
That could even be a mag just looking at tentacles, but agree that is not best for ID, we need to see foot and base to be sure, but also agree definitely not LTA
 
Thank you all for the responses.
It made its' home between the rock and sand bed and never moved.
I'll try to get a picture of the mouth/base. The base is light pink almost like a leather coral.
 
Mag (or Magnifica or Ritteri) is a short name we often use for Heteractis magnifica. Heteractis ritteri was one of the older names for this species.
 
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Yeah, and I'm not sure why but seems many vendors lately seem to be going back to using ritteri for ID which sometimes adds to confusion, and still that was just a guess based on those small pics, which really means nothing much w/out seeing the foot and base under natural/non actinic lighting.
 
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