ID and Help with Anemone

[Blue Mark]

Hi Guys

New to the forum. Please Help ID this Anemone

Will also Post a pic in a bit of the base which has started to have spots that look like the insides coming out almost like a hernia - no doubt this is not good. Bought it less than a week ago and it looked good in the store tank but not hosting percula's that were in the tank. I have a domino and two percs in my tank that have shown minimla interest in it but two cleaner shrimp have gotten right inside and cleaned and dont seem affected. When i was putting it in the tank it was very sticky on my hand and tried to move it last night and it seemed not so sticky. Have fed it once with solid food yesterday, just dropped a small peice of shrimp onto it and it seems to have eaten that.

Pictures of white stuff on base to follow

 

[Blue Mark]

pictures dont seem to be loading - using picasa to host. Any advice on somewhere better?

 

[h2oimports]

photobucket

 

[traveller7]

Hi Guys

New to the forum. Please Help ID this Anemone

M. doreensis, common name Long Tentacle Anemone.

"Will also Post a pic in a bit of the base which has started to have spots that look like the insides coming out almost like a hernia - no doubt this is not good."
From pictures and your description above, it is unhappy and of questionable health. In my experience, the shrimp will not be helping it, but eating bits and pieces of it.

Posting pictures, right click on your picture, select properties, copy the actual http link in properties, paste into the "insert image field"

All the best.

 

[Blue Mark]

Here is picture of foot or stem of anemone with white spots

 

[Blue Mark]

try that again

 

[garygb]

You have a long tentacle anemone, Macrodactyla doreensis. A sand dwelling anemone that needs a deep sand bed to bury its column in.

 

[clowns101]

Yea,IMO looks like a really stressed out LTA!

 

[Slickcg33]

It appears to have alot of damage to its foot... You have a long recovery road ahead of you if it can even rebound from that many holes...

 

[traveller7]

I have not had one survive long term after the white lesions appear on the column and it remains deflated. Before giving up, I would consider a bath in an aerated bucket of antibiotics, furan type due to wide availability?
http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3578+4615+4827&pcatid=4827&r=555

After a few hours, returning the anemone to something like this if I only had 1 "reef water" quality tank:
http://www.marinedepot.com/CPR_CITR...nal_Refugiums_Sumps-CPR-CR1711-FIRFIR-vi.html

In my experience, the anemone will need to be isolated from the shrimp and any other predators. The opportunistic shrimp that concerns me: