Can anyone ID this Anemone?

[blacklily]

Can anyone ID this Anemone? When I first got it, it was white with purple tips and it turned this purple/green/blue color (base is orange) When I bought it, I was told it was a purple tip Anemone and would not host clownfish. But now I think maybe it was dying and hence the white color. I can't seem to find one like it online to identify. I want to get clowns and was hoping this would host them. The purple/green/blue picture is my Anemone now, the white with purple tips picture is what it looked like when I bought it.

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[Ron Popeil]

you have a condylactis anemone, an atlantic anemone species.

 

[D-Nak]

you have a condylactis anemone, an atlantic anemone species.

+1.

Being a Caribbean species, they typically don't host clowns. However, some do (I've seen them hosting tomato clowns) but there have also been reports of them eating clowns. If you really want an anemone to host your clowns, you should get a clown hosting species, with the natural host being the best.

 

[davocean]

Agree, they are not what we call a host nem species, but some clowns are so eager to take a nem of any kind they may make do, maroons and clarkis are first to come to mind on that.

 

[blacklily]

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Thanks but does anyone know why it changed colors?

 

[Pericyte]

It was bleached. When anemones are stressed they sometimes expel their symbiotic organisms called zooxanthellae. As it got healthier it replaced them and changed color.

 

[blacklily]

Thanks that's what I thought.