Condy and false perc.....or ocellaris and LTA

[flyyyguy]

I have what i believe to be a condy hosting a false perc........i was just told that it is a LTA and a ocellaris.

Just curious now......which is it??

 

[guido_kp]

false perc = ocellaris, so its the same.

that nem i would leave to someone more knowledgeable than i. looks like a condy in the first pic and kinda like an lta in the second. does the clown actually get in and wallow around in the nem?

 

[flyyyguy]

oh.........LOL. Thanks for the response.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10324483#post10324483 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by guido_kp
does the clown actually get in and wallow around in the nem?

Yes

 

[flyyyguy]

Anybody else able to confirm if that is a condy or a lta anemone from those pics??

How rare is the match up between a false perc and a condi? False perc and a LTA??

 

[Toddrtrex]

Would like to see a picture of the underside of the anemone to be sure, but my money is on Condy -- looks and the fact that it is in the rocks -- LTAs prefer to be in/on the sandbed.

It is pretty rare in both cases since neither is a natural host for a false perc. But, more so for the Condy since it isn't a host for any clown. They might as well eat the clown as often as they will host it.

 

[flyyyguy]

Thanks for the reply.

I will go scrape the coralline and try to get you a pic of the foot. It is embedded in a hole in the rock so im not sure how good of a pic i can do. This nem is a perfect gentlemen. He hasnt moved once since i set the tank up almost a year ago. He did roam a couple times in the tank before. I even accidentally was moving something in the tank and one of the rocks he was attached to fell........ripped him in half a few months ago. I gave away the half that fell and he still never moved. So he must be pretty content.

On a unrelated note, but interesting to me. Is that this pair was one of a handful of survivors in a tank crash(cooked) that I lost a couple hundred corals and 6 other fish to recently.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Sure thing.

Don't need a picture of the foot, but a picture of the underside of the oral disk. Better, yet -- is the underside of the disk smooth? If so it is a condy, LTAs will have bumps.
( For the life of me I can't remember how to spell what the bumps are called, but it starts with a "V" )

 

[GuOD]

That's a condy

 

[flyyyguy]

how do you get a pic of the underside of the oral disk without removing the animal imbedded in a hole in the rock??

Im guessing you cant. If thats the case...a pic isnt going to happen.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Doesn't look like it would be easy for you with where your condy is at.

But, here is a picture of an LTA, you can see all the "bumps" that I am referring too.

(( It ended up dieing because of the hole in its foot, but still shows what I am talking about. ))

 

[flyyyguy]

Thanks.

condy it is. definitely no bumps.

 

[guido_kp]

verrucae? something like that. the bumps i mean. props for getting a odd hosting combo. wish that my ocellaris would host the bta i have - even though its not natural.