New Purple Base RBTA

[55semireef]

I have a small RBTA that has a rose colored disk with just a regular red foot. Like Phender said, there are all kinds of color morphs that are all of the same species.

 

[phender]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9798622#post9798622 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by REEFRHEAD
by true rbta i mean a true red one not the green base red tenticles ones. and yes other roses can have other colored bases but the most colored ones will have a closely colored base as the tenticles. personally to me only the maroon or purple based bta are the true rbtas.

I understand what you are saying. I am not very fond of the BTAs with rose tentacles and green disks either. But to say that one is a true rose and the other is not is sort of silly, IMO.
The first BTAs to be called "Rose" came from Tonga. Some had maroon bases but many were tan. Does that mean that the only true roses have to come from Tonga? No, rose is just a general discription of the tentacle color. If you want to get more discriptive go for it, but rose is just a color, not a type of anemone.

Here is a pic of a Rose BTA from Tonga from 1995

This anemone was sold as a "Rose". I prefer to call it a "Flame".

I'll get off my soap box now.

 

[triggerfish1976]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9802028#post9802028 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender


Here is a pic of a Rose BTA from Tonga from 1995

This anemone was sold as a "Rose". I prefer to call it a "Flame".

God I want one of those "flames". Of all of the so-called flame RBTA's that one is still the nicest one I have seen. Where can I get one?

 

[bigdaddyadam]

RBTA is a RBTA, IMO...red tentacle/green base or red tentacle/red base

this is mine and I and every other person I have ever talked to consider it a rose BTA, but under actinics the oral disk is green

 

[eeorrandy]

That "Flame" is beautiful. I wouldn't mind having one of those too

 

[55semireef]

There is no such thing as a "true RBTA." They are all RBTAs (E. Quadricolor) just different color morphs. Ex: Say a male RBTA with a red oral disk releases his sperm and fertilizes with eggs of a female RBTA that had a green oral disk. Depending on which alleles are dominant and recessive their offspring will produce different phenotypes (external characteristics) depending on how their genetics work (such as incomplete dominance, polymorphism, Codominance etc.). There are so many factors that take into play you just really can't call a color morph of one species true and the others not. There are many races and skin pigments of humans but there isn't a "true human." We are all human just different color morphs per say.

 

[55semireef]

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