Carpet id

[Tbonekilla]

I searched everywhere and can not find a pic of the same. Is it a mertens?

Like rock. Doesn't burrow in sand. Blue green foot. Yellow mouth.



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[kduen]

Does it have red/magenta spots on the underside that almost turn into stripes? If so it very well could be a mertens.

 

[Tbonekilla]

It has red/purplish dots that form vertical lines on the bottom of it. They start from the edge and go down about 1/3 of it.

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[Reef1589]

Any way you can get a picture of em?

 

[phender]

From the pic and your description, I would say you have a mertens. That is a very interesting color. Do you know where it was collected? Pics of the underside would be very nice. I have never seen a mertens with a colored column (besides the spots/stripes of course).

 

[Reefvette]

Do the spots go from the top of the base to the bottumof the base?

I have seen mertens the color of the tentacles but never a blue base. They are almost always grey or peach or tan.

 

[Tbonekilla]

I'll try to get a pic in the next couple of days. I'm going to let it relax today. It was labeled as a "carpet anemone" at the LFS. No clue on source. At first I thought it was bleached but then I noticed the body and disc had full color and the white appears to be a color morph.

 

[D-Nak]

By the looks and description it sounds like a Mertensii. Nice find!

 

[Reefvette]

 

[Tbonekilla]

Excuse the cell phone pics. No flash and flash.





What do you guys think?

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[phender]

Mertens are much "floppier" than other carpets because the have a very weak column. Your pics look very similar to a mertens I used to have that had magenta spots (instead of orange) that changed to red/orange when they got to the foot. The tentacle color with lighter tips is similar as well.
FWIW, I would say you have a mertens. Since it was labeled as an assorted carpet, I assume you got it for a good price. How big is it?

My anemone, so you can compare. (That is a baby orange skunk) The anemone was about 6" across.

 

[Tbonekilla]

That looks exactly like it except no dots on the base of the foot. Otherwise it's a dead ringer. 6" - 7" roughly at the moment.

 

[Reefvette]

Its a gigantea here is a base on a mertens i got thuraday

 

[Tbonekilla]

Yeah, the dots stop on mine. About 1/3 the way down. So it's gigantea? What would the name of the color morph be?

 

[phender]

They don't do "color morphs" on carpets(thank goodness!). A simple description is just fine.
Don't see giganteas with tentacle tips lighter than the tentacles very often and the tentacle shape of giganteas are usually more pointed. On the otherhand, merten's usually have spots that go all the way to the foot (but not always).
Do you have a way to post a video? Mertens tend to drape themselves over the rocks, while gigs tend to hold themselves with folds above the rocks.

 

[Tbonekilla]

It's currently doing folds. It was doing folds at the LFS yesterday too but they only had it for a day also. I just fed it a piece of raw shrimp. I'll try to see about getting a video.

 

[Tbonekilla]

http://youtu.be/Ipxr8siqZGY

 

[illcssd]

Judging by that video, looks like a Gigantea to me. My merten's never had the long tentacles moving in the flow like that; or held itself up like that.

 

[Tbonekilla]

The foot is gripping the vertical surface of the rock but it stays folded.

 

[elegance coral]

That's gigantea.
When gigantea are not all that happy, they can have obvious light spots on the tips of their tentacles. As they get more comfortable, and the tentacles elongate, the light colored tips almost completely disappear.
This is a pic of short and fat gigantea tentacles.