ID please?

[Shila Marie]

Got this nem at a discounted price from the lfs. Ive been getting different names on what type it is. Can someone please help? I am new to nems
Thanks in advance

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I'm curious, what have they said it is. This will let us know is your LFS knows what their business or not.

 

[davocean]

[welcome]

Hard to say from that pic, really need pics of underside/foot for proper ID

 

[Shila Marie]

They said it was a zebra nem. Obviously not lol they said it was almost dead and didn't think it would make it. I got it for $13 even. Ill try to get a good pic of its foot and bottom hlf of it tomorrow. I have had people tell me its a condy or a long tentacle

 

[Dkuhlmann]

It's definitely NOT a long tentacle nem.

 

[Shila Marie]

Got a few quick pics. It burys its foot in rock crevices or under another coral.... moves around alot still but it pretty much stays in the center/bottom of the tank on the rock. Never seen it in the sand yet

 

[Shila Marie]

I cant get a pic with its foot down and sitting somewhere. It always has to have its back against something

 

[ocellaris123]

A condylactus maybe

 

[Amoo]

Looks to me like a Heteractis Malu. If that's the case they tend to prefer sandy substrate, so try putting in in the sand.

 

[asudavew]

Looks to me like a Heteractis Malu. If that's the case they tend to prefer sandy substrate, so try putting in in the sand.

I agree.

 

[ThRoewer]

I would say the tentacles are too long and too thick and blunt for a malu. They also lack the purple tips that malu tentacles in general have.
I looks much more like condylactis.

 

[Amoo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYFkOsPGN5o

 

[elegance coral]

It's a very ill Condylactis.

 

[Postal]

Another condy vote.
Definitely not a malu.

 

[Amoo]

My guess of Malu is based on this description:

Details Tentacles arise from brown or purplish (rarely bright green) oral disc as much as 200 mm in diameter that may have white radial markings; evenly tapered to point or slightly inflated in middle; lower part same colour as oral disc, but upper portion may have several white rings or green end. Column very thin in expansion; upper part violet-brown (due to zooxanthellae) with longitudinal rows of adhesive verrucae. Anemones can retract completely into sediment; most common in shallow, quiet waters.

Source: http://jjgeisler.com/reeftank/anemones/ch1.htm

 

[shred5]

Another condy vote.
Definitely not a malu.

Agreed...
Not a malu...
Looks like a small cody but that is hard to tell too..

 

[ThRoewer]

My guess of Malu is based on this description:

"Details Tentacles arise from brown or purplish (rarely bright green) oral disc as much as 200 mm in diameter that may have white radial markings; evenly tapered to point or slightly inflated in middle; lower part same colour as oral disc, but upper portion may have several white rings or green end. Column very thin in expansion; upper part violet-brown (due to zooxanthellae) with longitudinal rows of adhesive verrucae. Anemones can retract completely into sediment; most common in shallow, quiet waters."

Source: http://jjgeisler.com/reeftank/anemones/ch1.htm

It doesn't fit that description. The tentacles are too thick to begin with and then evenly thick and too long. A malu of that size would have proportionally shorter tentacles.
On top of that, a unhappy or sick malu retracts its tentacles.

Also this one seems to be very fragile. A malu has more the consistency of a crispa - very leathery.

 

[Shila Marie]

Thanks everyone for the information and opinions. Very helpful