Another ID please.

[Timanator]

What is this thing?

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/timjing/IMG_0002.jpg

 

[garygb]

Looks like a bleached Heteractis aurora to me.

 

[garygb]

Could also be H. malu, what does the foot look like?

 

[Timanator]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11652555#post11652555 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by garygb
Could also be H. malu, what does the foot look like?

Foot:

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/timjing/IMG_0004.jpg

 

[garygb]

Thanks for that last pic. H. aurora has a reddish/orange foot usually, perhaps H. malu. Whatever the case, it needs good light, excellent water conditions, and once it digs in, needs to be target fed shrimp, squid, silversides, etc.

 

[Flighty]

Looks to be dyed yellow maybe?

 

[Timanator]

Anyone speak german? It looks just like that first picture.

http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/de/48/1207/Heteractis/aurora.htm

 

[garygb]

Timinator, need to speak German, the anemone in those pics you posted is Heteractis aurora (Latin).

 

[garygb]

Timinator, no need to speak German, the anemone in those pics you posted is Heteractis aurora (Latin).

 

[Timanator]

Thanks guys, looks like I should be looking for a Clarkii's clown.

 

[garygb]

I suggest you let it dig in, regain color, and then consider a clown. And yeah, clarkii is a natural host, and that's about it--although I've heard of other species going into H. aurora in aquariums.

 

[garygb]

I meant a natural symbiont, I hate it when the fish is called the host. lol.

 

[Timanator]

Well its getting stranger, he has now moved off the sand and up to some rocks. Does this mean he's not a H Aurora?

 

[Timanator]

Some pics of the anem now that it has acclimated for a few days.


Clearly his foot is now off the sand and on to the rocks.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/timjing/IMG_0004-1.jpg

Alittle angry after somethings got rearranged around him.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/timjing/IMG_0015.jpg

 

[cartman5579]

I might be a complete idiot but to me it looks like a H. Malu that is very bleached and has been dyed yellow.

 

[GSMguy]

i think it could be natural colors.

definitely malu

 

[reefman13]

I would have to dissagree with malu. The tentecles look nothing like the other specimens in that species...

 

[Timanator]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11695941#post11695941 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefman13
I would have to dissagree with malu. The tentecles look nothing like the other specimens in that species...

After looking at that link I posted in German above, it looks just like the first picture in that link and that Anemone is also on the rocks and not in the sand. Could some of the aurora species be not footed in the substrate?

 

[garygb]

I would say maybe H. malu also and I think that might be what it is; however, it does look just like that pic that is posted higher in the thread where the anemone is identified as H. aurora. I suppose it's possible the id in the pic is incorrect.

 

[garygb]

Good question Timanator, in Fautin and Allen book on the subject of field characteristics of H. aurora, it just says "Oral disc broad, to 250 mm or possibly more, spread flat or slightly undulating at the surface of sediment."

Whatever the case, the water conditions needed and general care are going to be the same.