Anemone ID

[audioaddiction]

these came into work the day after i put a shipment in and of course noone there knew where the papers on them were. i get things cheap so i got them both because they look amazing, the color is better than in the pictures. one's green and the other light blue, and they both have orange bases. the blue is slightly larger and opens wider than the green normally does. they just behave differently. peep!

i also have a tank containing specimens from the coast here and found a small spot containing hundreds of the following. i took this one out of the tank and it's been in this container of little stagnent water for days and it's holding up fine. i'm going to bring it back to the beach but i was suprised at how well it was doing.

i imagine it's aiptasia but i've never seen aiptasia before. it's very similar to an anemone but white lines come out when disturbed and they're near impossible to remove from a rock without creating a mess in the tank and destroying them. they also reproduce fairly often.

i have pure white ones that look great, and some that look a pinkish redish orangish brownish... color. check it!

 

[illcssd]

The first two are long tentacle anemone's. The third i have no idea on.

 

[wawruck]

could it be a majano (sp?) just asking cause I had a really cool looking anemone that almost looked like a bta, but it would stay on the small side and would split a lot. How big does yours get before it splits?

 

[wawruck]

btw I really like that green lta. What store are you at out there? I will be out in Wilmington later this summer and might stop in.

 

[BonsaiNut]

First two are M. doreensis.

 

[audioaddiction]

niiice thankyou guys for the LTA identification, i had a feeling the blue one was because i read that their tentacles had more spacing between them. i'm only very familiar with Haitian and Sebae anemonies though so. thanks!

wawruck the one's i find in the sea can stretch up to 4 inches across so far, and reproduce by splitting off tiny peices when moving, which form into tiny versions of itself. i got the LTA's from Petco, it's rare to see things like this come and go not that often. they have Haitian and Sebae anemones often though. thankyou!

 

[audioaddiction]

i'd love if we could identify the other's that i've found in the sea here, i'll get other pics on soon. like i said they reproduce by splitting off tiny peices when moving, which form into tiny versions of itself. i've seen a few pure white, and most of them brownish until they're under good lighting.