help me id my carpet

[anemoneguy]

ok i know you need pictures. i cant seem to get a good quality pic with my camera phone so please let me try to describe it and well see where it goes from there. at first i thought i had a small gigantia anemone. it was multi colored like a couple of the beautiful ones ive seen here. so i bought it,got it home, it attached right away. moved just an inch or so and seems to have settled in. it eats very well and loves the strong flow it gets and it likes being attatched to rock. you cant even see the mouth until you feed it. and it has bumbs under the pedal disc. they dont run all the way down id say just to where the colum starts. so with all that im thinking cool , until i see on pacific east aquaculres site a nem that looks the same and is labled mini carpet. so i call them and the lady is very nice she checks the underside of her anemone and describes mine to a tee plus they look just alike other than mine has longer tenticals.shes sticking with mini carpet cause they came in from the caribian. any feedback would be awesome. thanks

 

[The Reef Expert]

The only way anyone can really id anything is by a picture. Pictures can be hard enough as is... but describing it just wont float the boat.

 

[phender]

If the anemone seems very round without much wave to the edge of its oral disk, it may likely be Stichodactyla helianthus, a non-anemone host from the Atlantic.

 

[elegance coral]

Gigantea has round spots under the oral disk. Helianthus has spots that are brown and more square. Kinda like a checker board. It's hard to describe, but the spots are very different between the two species.
Even a bad pic is better than no pic.

 

[anemoneguy]

elegance and phil, between the two of you ive pretty much convinced myself its not a gigantia. i do notice the spots are more square.its a shame cause the thing is doing so well. i mean thats good no matter what it is but wish it were a gig. i will take a pic tomorrow night. ill feed it and get the underside to show and snap a pic.

 

[elegance coral]

The only "carpet" anemone I know of that has square spots is helianthus. IMHO, this is not an anemone for a community tank. It's prey capture abilities far exceeds any anemone I've kept. They are much better suited for a species tank, or left in the ocean.