Japanese Chocolate Anemone (pic)

FishyBiz

FishyBiz

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Hi All,
Does anyone have any info about this anemone? I found it at the fish store and it was labeled a Japanese Chocolate Anemone. As you can imagine it comes with a pretty heavy price tag and I wanted to research it before I dropped the coin on it.

Sorry about the pic. Its from my cell..... and im retarded because I had my Cannon XTi in the truck.:rolleyes:
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I don't know what it is or anything about it either, but it reminds me a little of the coldwater nems, just the way it looks. I'm not saying it is, I don't know enough to do so, it just reminds me of some pics I've seen.

Have you googled the name they have it under?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9398466#post9398466 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by raoul
I don't know what it is or anything about it either, but it reminds me a little of the coldwater nems, just the way it looks. I'm not saying it is, I don't know enough to do so, it just reminds me of some pics I've seen.

Have you googled the name they have it under?
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Yep.... I get nothing.
 
There was another of those, though a different colour a few weeks ago here. Don't think the guy ever figured out what it was either. Mebbe dig up that post and ask if you're serious about it?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9398595#post9398595 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Riona
There was another of those, though a different colour a few weeks ago here. Don't think the guy ever figured out what it was either. Mebbe dig up that post and ask if you're serious about it?
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I went all the way to page 14 and couldnt find it:(
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9398716#post9398716 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GSMguy
best cell phone pic ever most people dont do that good with their Dslrs :)
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LG VX9900 :smokin:
 
Never seen one like that before. It is sure different in a cool way though. Wish I could of been more help w/ id but dont know.

Cool Anem!
 
May be a corallimorph, not a real anemone. I can't tell you for sure, but that is my first feeling after looking at it.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9399395#post9399395 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
A what?
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You know, related to mushroom 'anemones' and such. I suspect that is what it is, but I have no way of telling for sure :D .

Edit--I found this pic of a supposed Pseudocorynactis spp.

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9399541#post9399541 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
So what keeps it from being an anemone?

Is it just some sort of mobile coral or something?
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I think Eric Borneman had the closest description in that he called them mobile hard corals without a skeleton. Though it's generalized to say so, they are sort of a cross between actinians and scleractinians, but more related to the latter. It's weird, anyway, since their taxonomic status is in a flux--in other words, we don't know exactly what they are :)
 
Dude... I think you are right.

I found this...

Pseudocorynactis spp. are like Corynactis but are much larger (to about six inches (15 cm) diameter, and usually not colonial. They also reproduce by fission, but it is unusual to find more than about six clones together as a group. The so-called orange ball anemones that can be observed on coral reefs at night are Pseudocorynactis spp. The column varies in color from cryptic shades of brown to orange, red and magenta. The tips of the tentacles are commonly bright orange, but they can also be white. These tentacle tips are extremely sticky, like flypaper, due to the presence of powerful nematocysts. This fact makes the larger species from the Indo Pacific region unsuitable for aquariums housing fishes, which they readily capture. They also can catch mobile invertebrates such as shrimps and snails, and sometimes "attack" sessile invertebrates growing on adjacent rocks, enveloping them in the gastric cavity through a widely opened mouth. Pseudocorynactis spp. can be fed daily, but only require twice weekly feeding to keep them healthy. If they are not fed frequently enough, they shrink. There is a marked behavioral difference between the common Caribbean and Indo-Pacific species
 
It might be riskier to your fish than a mushroom though :)

At least with nems, the clowns tend to chase other fish away (if you're keeping clowns) at least mine do. I wonder if a clown would try to host it?

Depending on their similarity to corynactis they may not be photosynthetic. If I remember correctly, corynactis aren't, and they tend to like the shaded parts of the tanks.
 
The LFS that its at right now have two clowns that host it. Little guys about 1" long. The pair I had would def. take to it.
 
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