BTA or LTA?

[doryrocks]

Hi, I've been lurking here for a while now and finally decided to join today! This anemone was purchased a few months ago as a LTA but I'm still not quite sure what it is. It's got a tan column with very faint darker splotches, green, tapering tentacles with white/yellow tips, and a purple streaked oral disk. It was 4" when I bought it and now is 5-6"

It has characteristics like both LTA and BTA:

LTA
-faint splotches along column that may be the 'purple dots'
-streaks on the oral disk

BTA
-three white lines around mouth
-looked bubbly during first 2 weeks
-loves light and flow and totally not on sandbed (it's beside sps!)

So, what is it?

looking bubbly

streaks on oral disk

a tad bubbly again

white lines around mouth

and to make it even more confusing, it balls up like a mag sometimes

Thanks for your help!

 

[clowns101]

FROM THE PICTURESTHAT YOU HAVE POSTED I WOULD SAY A BUBBLE TIP ANEMONE.

 

[davocean]

My LTA balls up to, but you see the speckled veracue still.
I'm not BTA expert, but pretty sure it's not an LTA, or least not a M.doreensis.

 

[davocean]

Ooops, forgot pic!

 

[apayne]

+1 BTA

 

[ocellaris123]

Agreed with everyone who said bubble anemone, no question about it.

 

[adtravels]

bta

 

[romsoccer12]

i have the exact same anemone and looks exactly the same. mine also shrivels up sometimes. it also has like 6 white lines by its mouth

 

[NirvanaFan]

I agree with the bubble tip ID

 

[doryrocks]

Ok cool, so it's unanimously BTA. Looks like that LFS needs to get its facts straight...

Thanks for the pic davocean; it's gorgeous!