need help with ID

[wawruck]

ok so I posted this in clownfish and anemones, but figured I would show you all and ask you too.

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this is the anemone that we got on our rock from premium aquatics. It was out of water 1-2 days so we figured it for dead (was closed when we got it), but to our surprise it is doing fine.

Liz

 

[ol'salty]

Looks like a rose bubbletip to me.

Dave

 

[tmcghee]

Bubble tip anemone or maybe beaded anemone
http://www.carlosreef.com/AnemoneFAQ.pdf
pages 30 and 32 look like the closest matches to us.
Whatever it is, it would probably like more light and some food though. It looks stressed but hopefully it will make it and be very pretty.
Terry & Terrie

 

[wawruck]

it is 1/2 rose colored and 1/2 clear/white

this picture was taken the morning after it was put in...it has been in for about a week now. It has ate 2 times since then and seems to be doing fine, but the color hasn't changed at all. Right now it is about 3/4 ways down in the tank, but we can always redo the rock and move it higher. We just didn't want to start it off to high up (closer to the MH), plus if it wants more light won't it move up more itself?

 

[wawruck]

could it be a 2 colored BTA? Like a hybrid? I know that anemones are asexual but can they be sexual reproducing?

 

[wawruck]

ok well to answer my own question I found this:

How do clown anemones reproduce?
Anemones reproduce both asexually and sexually. Asexually, anemones produce clones
of themselves via splitting, budding, or (perhaps) pedal laceration. Both E. quadricolor
and H. magnifica are known to split frequently in home aquariums; asexual reproduction
in other species is very rare at this time. Sexually, anemones are either male or female
individuals, and they release eggs or sperm into the water column to fertilize and settle
out as juvenile anemones. Anemones have been observed spawning in home aquariums,
but no juvenile anemones have ever been raised except in research environments.

SO due to this rock being wild prior to us getting it....could it be a hybrid, mixed colored anemone?

Sorry for so many questions...I just have never seen a 2 toned anemone like this (and it has stumped us)?