I got a new anemone today. Need an ID *pic*

[WDLV]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9332712#post9332712 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by illcssd
That actinic picture shows the verrucue of a crispa. That is what it is. Not a aurora.

You're correct, but not for the reason you've noted. I stand corrected. There are vurricae around the underside of the oral disc, but not on the column where I was looking.
According to Fautin and Allen's book, that anemone is an H. crispa variant from the Maldive islands. The mauve coloration and the striations around the circumference of the tentacles is the distinguishing and determining factors. Not necessarily the vurricae. The vurricae are present in both species. In the H. Crispa they're prominant and more numerous.
This H. crispa may not be presenting them as being as numerous as they typically appear. The vurricae on H. aurora are present on the upper column as is shown in this specamin, and are typically presented as being lighter in color than the column.
Guaging by vurricae alone you would have to guess H. aurora due to their location and coloration.

Xenon,
So I was wrong. The tentacles are in their natural form. They are not likely to be more beaded as the anemone recovers.
Keep this one alive and you will have something unusual and interesting on your hands.

Oh, and by "host anemones" I mean those that harbor anemonefish in nature.

 

[illcssd]

I wasnt judging strickly by that. I have seen thousands and thousands of these bleached anemones come in and after awhile you can just tell. i have very very rarely seen malu's actually come in. Lots listed as malu's, 99% are crispa's.
Like i said from the beginning, its an h. crispa.

 

[WDLV]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9333818#post9333818 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by illcssd
I wasnt judging strickly by that. I have seen thousands and thousands of these bleached anemones come in and after awhile you can just tell. i have very very rarely seen malu's actually come in. Lots listed as malu's, 99% are crispa's.
Like i said from the beginning, its an h. crispa.

You win.

 

[Amphiprion]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9327879#post9327879 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
Why did you cook your liverock?

I would say you either have Heteractis aurora Beaded Anemone or Heteractis Crispa. Its hard to tell but if I had to pick I would go with the aurora. Crispa's usually don't fold like that.

It looks like bleached H. crispa to me. H. aurora usually has a conspicuous space devoid of tentacles. Under higher flow conditions, H. crispa does indeed fold up. Most people that have them seem to have them in lower flow rates, though.

 

[55semireef]

I have never seen a H. Crispa like that but I wouldn't be suprised if it was. Definately bleached though.

 

[colby]

That is a very bleached H. Crispa.

Good luck