Crispa or Malu?

[taylor t]

I've had this guy for a couple years. Got it at the LFS as a size of a cupcake with tentacles that resembled tiny bumps, was purple, and labeled "malu". Pretty poor initial shape. Had stripes on tents when I got it, but they have disappeared, and the tentacles have gotten very long. Quickly grew to about 6", and is currently about 8". I'm thinking the stripes I saw was a color difference, not really stripes. Any opinions? Thanks in advance!

 

[Toddrtrex]

H. crispa

 

[garygb]

+1 crispa

 

[taylor t]

Thanks guys!

 

[BonsaiNut]

Crispa LOL

 

[taylor t]

I'm baffled why this guy stays so small!!! 8" on a good day, and that's with a couple shrimp pieces a week! Is it possible some crispa just don't get very large?

 

[OrionN]

the last 2 pictures look a lot like Malu to me. All the picture of the whole anemone, the tentacle counts is not high enough to be Crispa. Also in all of these pictures, the inner tentacles are small and short. My gess is that it is a Malu

 

[garygb]

I rethinking my original id too. Now I'm leaning toward malu, also.

 

[taylor t]

Thanks guys. A little info on the differences. The first pics from 2011 it was in a 75 gallon tank directly under a 150 MH 10K DE, in 4+ inches of sand. The pics from a couple days ago it was put into a plastic container (for ease of moving it to where I want it) and put in a 210 under LED's, much farther from light (75 to 210 is quite a few inches taller), so less light, much more flow too. I had trouble thinking it is a crispa, seeing it won't grow any more in size with all the feeding it gets. Thanks again guys.