Need Help Confirming this Anemone's ID

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Hey all, I'm hoping you guys can give me some feedback on this anemone. To make a long story short: I picked it up several months ago, bleached, from a shop owner who did not have the time or space to rehabilitate it. It came in labeled as an E. quad. In the natural light I could see very faint colors; cream with green tips and a red base. Under artificial lights, it looked mostly white. The tentacles were short and starved-looking. Now, after a few months of recovery, I'm not so sure on the ID. Here is it as of tonight:

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Please excuse the mottled rock; that island is still fairly new and unattractive looking. :o

I'm by no means certain, but judging by the tentacle shape and distribution I'm wondering if it is an H. magnifica. Obviously its location (the very spot I placed it) is odd, but I suppose that could be due to its recovering state. It definitely still has a ways to go until it is fully recovered, but I'm really skeptical of its E. quadricolor label at this point. What do you all think?
 
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It looks like a recovering E. Quad to me. The red and green colors will sometimes dissappear if the lighting isn't quite right. What lights do you have, and what size tank?
 
I would say quadricolor as well. It's holding its tentacles like magnifica, but I've never seen magnifica with the white lines around the mouth.
 
I think it is an E. quadricolor as well. The white strip from the mouth, and the position of the anemone in the crevice poking out, in lower light (lower in the rock) area of the tank, ID this as a BTA.
The tentacles looks more like a H. magnifica than BTA, but tentacle of BTA can look like this also.
 
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