Anemone identification

[cellingson]

I received a couple of anemones on some live rock out of Fiji. Wonder if anyone could help me identify them.
I think the large green one is a Sabae but not sure. The others appear to be bubble.

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[ClownNut]

majano anemone. kill them before they become 1000000000000000000000

 

[Swayze27]

Sounds violent, even the big green one?

 

[ClownNut]

Sounds violent, even the big green one?

no matter big or small, majano are evil!

 

[Swayze27]

Man I wonder how many have been sold as BTA

 

[101010]

For some reason it doesn't looks like Majono(though I'm not sure), IMO you should wait for some more positive identification before you destroy them.

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[ClownNut]

Man I wonder how many have been sold as BTA

lol, a few years back someone actually selling them on ebay as mini BTA or something like that. :hmm3::hmm3::hmm3:

 

[Swayze27]

So close

 

[D-Nak]

The green ones with orange tips are what some commonly call tulip anemones. They are invasive just like other small colonial anemones.

 

[cellingson]

Thank you clownnut
I looked up majano and agree the smaller ones are likely this. Will get rid of.

But this first one is quite large. 5-6 inches across. It prefers the bottom substrate and not the light. I am not convinced this is a majano unless others agree.

 

[D-Nak]

Oops, I assumed that the first image was of a colony of anemones. If it's a single nem and is 5-6 inches as you mentioned, then it's probably a BTA. However, BTAs like rock crevices and not substrate. Can you take a photo of it under normal light (without the blue tinge)?

Coral Collection used to have one called a glowstick, but if you Google "orange tipped BTA" you'll see similar morphs.

 

[Swayze27]

Looking that healthy and not liking light would worry me as to what creature it is, lol

 

[cellingson]

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[cellingson]

Maybe more like 4 - 5 inches. It likes light but prefers to be towards the bottom with its back side Burried in the rocks.
This is what it looked like when it came in

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[cellingson]

Any thoughts? I vinegared all the small ones. Now I have just this big green one. Ideas on what it could be?


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[Kevin Guthrie]

Can you describe what you see on the column? Hard to tell from the pic.

 

[cellingson]

This is with the blue light off.



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[D-Nak]

How about the mouth? Does it have white lines/streaks radiating from the middle?

 

[cellingson]

Can you describe what you see on the column? Hard to tell from the pic.

If by column you are referring to the foot. It was a light green color and about as wide as the anemone top. It is buried in a crevice of a rock and can't see any portion of it now. Here is the anemone after stimulating it to close.

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