Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

[Allin14]

I was in the Bay Area today and picked up a new anemone that looks some what like a bubble tip but its dark purple and the tips are smaller. Does anyone know what kind it is? - sorry about the pics my camera sucks

 

[Flighty]

Mini carpet or a dyed bta maybe? With those pics I can't quite tell what it is.

 

[water hazzard]

Looks like my mini carpet also.

 

[Allin14]

I looked online for pics of anything that looked similar, does anyone one have one of these that has a pic? Thanks

 

[phender]

Judging from the pink mouth and the color of the base, I would say that its a dyed sebae anemone (H. crispa) whose dye is fading from the tentacles.

 

[GSMguy]

pink mouth is a bad sign
been a while since i have seen dyed a sebae on this forum

 

[ChunksInClemson]

It looks like a bubble to me...

 

[illcssd]

I believe phil is right.
The base of the anemone should almost always be a different color, and the mouth is showing a fading as phil said. Will it eat? ime dyed anemone's that won't eat are a goner. I hope for you that this one recovers though.

 

[Slakker]

If I recall correctly, and I don't remember where I read this, but isn't it fairly usual for an anemone that was at one point dyed to end up dead for seemingly no reason a few months down the road?

I thought I had read that the dye had no immediate effects, but ended up having a distressingly low survival rate.

 

[m3nac3]

i just went through something like this.. i bought a bleached anem. he died one week later

 

[Slakker]

Bleached and dyed are totally different circumstances...very sorry to hear about your loss, though!

 

[RedSonja]

Re: Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9137583#post9137583 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Allin14
I was in the Bay Area today and picked up a new anemone that looks some what like a bubble tip but its dark purple and the tips are smaller. Does anyone know what kind it is? - sorry about the pics my camera sucks

How large is it?

Just curious, because I saw some small 'nems (silver-dollar size) at a PetCo recently that looked similar except they were brownish instead of purple. They didn't look very healthy to me and there weren't any employees that knew what it was, so I wasn't about to buy one. If it was a mini-carpet though, I might re-think it.

Thanks,

-Sonja

 

[phender]

Re: Re: Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

Re: Re: Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9141669#post9141669 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RedSonja
How large is it?

Just curious, because I saw some small 'nems (silver-dollar size) at a PetCo recently that looked similar except they were brownish instead of purple. They didn't look very healthy to me and there weren't any employees that knew what it was, so I wasn't about to buy one. If it was a mini-carpet though, I might re-think it.

Thanks,

-Sonja

Did these anemones have some yellow marbling on the foot? In the old days they called them purple mat anemones. I think they are actually small H. malu or H. crispa.

 

[RedSonja]

Re: Re: Re: Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

Re: Re: Re: Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9141723#post9141723 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
Did these anemones have some yellow marbling on the foot? In the old days they called them purple mat anemones. I think they are actually small H. malu or H. crispa.

I didn't get a close enough look to tell. Now I'm gonna have to go back and check them out.

I do know that one seemed to have its foot buried in the sand even though there were several pieces of LR in the tank.

-Sonja

 

[Allin14]

when its fully opened its about 6", should i be worried and take this out of my tank ? Also you said it looks dyed, does that mean its going to keep losing its color?

 

[RedSonja]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Anyone know what kind of anemone this is?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9141795#post9141795 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RedSonja
I didn't get a close enough look to tell. Now I'm gonna have to go back and check them out.

I do know that one seemed to have its foot buried in the sand even though there were several pieces of LR in the tank.

-Sonja

Just went by there, whatever it was is gone. I wouldn't be surprised if it had died, whatever it was didn't look like any healthy 'nem I'd ever seen.

-Sonja