BTA or majano?

[Chrismattoon]

Hello! About 6 months new to salt, so I'm looking for some help-

Are these majano or BTA? The one on the sand bed looks like BTA to me, but the one on the rock, I'm not so sure about-

Thanks!

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Hard to tell from the pictures but if any of them have white lines around the mouth they it's BTA, if not Majano. I'm betting on Majano's

 

[Chrismattoon]

Awesome- thanks. Would they be radially around the mouth, or leading to the mouth as a center point?

 

[ulli]

+1 Bubble

 

[Dkuhlmann]

The white lines come away from the center of the mouth usually. But if there are any white lines then it is a BTA. Usually you won't find many BTA's that small and there are some LFS that sell the majanos as BTA's. :hammer: because they bubble just like one.

 

[Chrismattoon]

If the white lines are a give-away, then the smaller one on the rock is definitely a BTA. Feeding the clown and dottyback tonight, he opened up and there are very obviously 5 small but present white dashes radiating from the mouth - maybe about 1/16" in length. Of course, he's only about the size of a half dollar - sound right?

The other one, more colorful, a little larger and on the sand bed, appears to be splitting so he's not super interested in food tonight... but they came on the same rock from another well-established and cared for tank, so I'm thinking they both are BTA...

 

[bws]

i had the same looking thing and they have white stripes on them also but i was told it was more than likely a tulip anemone and is still a pest, i have been getting rid of mine slowly with kalk paste and a syringe

 

[jon1985]

doesnt look like any majanoe Ive ever seen