Please ID my anemones

[jzchen]

I brought an anemones 12 mths ago. And now I got 7 of them sitting my old 120ltr (30G) tank. The last one was splitted 4 month ago.

Now I got a new 450 ltr (100G) new tank and I afraid that they are pest anemones so I decided to leave them there until I know more about them.

Could some please help me to identify them? Thanks

Here is the close shot

Here are seven of them

 

[SVXH6]

they look like BTA's to me.. look a little light in color as well. how often/ what are you feeding? they are not pest anemones but some varities tend to split more often(i had one variety that split every few months, and i had one that split only once over two years).. but they also may be splitting due to stress..

 

[jzchen]

When I got the first one, I fed shrimp and frozen marine seafood once a week.

After they split so many I stopped feeding. They just get the left over from the brine shrimp I feed the fish.

 

[BonsaiNut]

They are BTA's. The variegated variety has been refered to as "vietnamese" BTA's, though whether they come from vietnam or not is anyone's guess. Though yours are small I have seen this particular variety get quite large, with oral disks 1' across. The ones that I had experience with were quite prolific splitters; they soon dominated a 200 gallon tank.

 

[jzchen]

Thanks for the info guys.

Do you think I should move them to the large tank?

The only thing I afraid of is it will split again and take over corals.

Otherwise I may just sell it back to my LFS.

 

[Jutta]

I have got the exact same one, arrived as a hitchhicker and as double its size in under a year. So far it hasnt split. i am feeding mine once a week but after having read your comments, I will stop feeding as I dont want it to split.

If you want to get rid of a few, suggest to sell back to LFS. I think they are quite pretty and someone else might like them

 

[illcssd]

Definitly bta's.