Please help ID this carpet anemone

aggie

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Hi,
Could someone please Id this anemone for me.
The underside has no spots or dashes, just one colour.Your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks Peter
 

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Thanks for the relies so far. Im sure its not a crispa but some kind of carpet anemone.
Ill try and take some more photo's of it today. At the moment Ive kept the anemone in a holding tank in a basket. The anemone never stretches out for the light so its hard to get a pick of the base.
The tenticles are very sticky, and when I feed the anemone a piece of crushed shrimp as soon as the anemone grabs the shrimp, he/she wont let go.
 
heres a couple more pics,
I tried to take a pic of the anemones stem but as soon as I touched him, he retracted. From one of the pics you can see that all I did was touch him and he gripped my finger only to show a little of his foot.
The first pic was when lights were out, second pic is when I tried to look at is foot and stem.
 

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Some more pics, these were taken while the anemone was eating a prawn.
Hope these pics help.
 

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From the last photos I am also leaning towards s. gigantea. A bleach but otherwise looks good enough to maybe get healthier if WP and lighting is up to par. If you don't see any spot on foot but foot is blue then its a gigantea. Sometime the blue spots doesn't show up maybe due to stress. Good luck
 
Take a picture of the column. I think he is a Gigantea also but a picture of the column will possitively ID him.
 
Thanks for the replies..
Hes yellow in colour, but ive notice some brown markings showing up on the tentacles. That last pic looks like hes bleached but hes a darker yellow. Just not showing up in the pics.
I will try and take a pic of the column.
 
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