Anemone ID?

sharks

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Can anyone ID these anemones for me? I have been searching the net for photos but without an ID I can’t find any info on them. They came into the shop as mini bulb tip anemones. I have 2 in my aquapod and they have been doing great for a few months now. Over the thanksgiving break one of them split into 3 possibly 4 now. They all look great but I was just looking to find more info on them. Here are some older pics. I will take some new shots of the babies tomorrow.
Thanks in advance,
~S

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they just may be bubble tip anemones, entamea quadricolor, because they can lose the bubble tips after a while.
 
At first glance I though LTA but Im not sure now because I dont see any spots on the underside. I dont think it is a BTA mine doesnt look like that on the rare occasions its not bulbed up. My guess is LTA. Heres a pic of the LTA.

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You may be correct but when we got them in I asked the distributor and he said that the mini meant these will stay small. The biggest one I have is about 3”x3”. In my big reef I had the LTA (Macrodactyla doreensis) and it got huge and grew pretty quickly.
There definitely are no spots on the column just an olive green main trunk.
I emailed the distributor last week but I did not here back from them. I doubt they will remember these little anemones out of all the ones they sold in the past months.
Thanks
~S
 
I dont think they are bubbletips, I have one similar, it has greenish tentacles with purple/lavender tips. Unlike bubbles these tend not to have tentacles on the oral disk, only around the edges, if you follow my meaning.

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I have seen anemones out there that have no signs whatsoever of swollen tips that I know for certain are bubble tips. I took care of about 7 of them in a display tank at a fish store and I took a couple out into a different tank and they regained their bubble tips.
 
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