Post your insane anemone pics here!

Yes carpet anemones are fish eatters. Here are a few pics of my new red haddoni carpet getting its first victim.
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11140115#post11140115 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by lildraken
Danikowa, your anemone is wicked! Considering the long tentacles, is he an M. Doreensis?

yep thats an LTA, M. Dorensis
 
TTRex94 .... Is that a Helfrichi firefish or a regular purple getting eaten?????

Your anemone has expensive taste?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11140531#post11140531 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GSMguy
yep thats an LTA, M. Dorensis


After a lot of questions and some different pics, it was determined in another thread that it was a H. crispa, an extraordinarily beautiful one.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11141750#post11141750 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
After a lot of questions and some different pics, it was determined in another thread that it was a H. crispa, an extraordinarily beautiful one.

wow really thats an amazing Crispa, thanks for the correction.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11158039#post11158039 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NewSchool04
My new H. crispa. Just checking to see if it really is a H. crispa! What do you think?

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that is classic crispa, nice.
 
crispa, aurora, or malu?

crispa, aurora, or malu?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9336683#post9336683 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xenon
Well I figured I would add mine to the mix.

Heteractis Aurora Anemone. Althou some think its a crispa.
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sorry to bring up old statements but I'm still confused about this anemone's identification. Xenon, just curious to know what caused you to conclude that your anemone was an H. Aurora. To me the tentacles look nothing like beads. IMO he looks like a H. malu because of the rings around the tentacles. I haven't found any literature that stated crispa's have those rings.

since this source is over 100 years old I don't know how reliable it is.

"Heteractis malu (Haddon & Shackleton 1893), the Delicate Sea Anemone. Narrow, buried column of pale cream to yellow color, sometimes with some yellow or orange splotching. Upper part with adhesive verrucae in rows. Sparse tentacles of stubby appearance, variable length, usually magenta tipped, with radial markings. Found in sediment in shallow, still water."

can anyone recommend a good website or book that is reliabe? seems like when you google it, different sites state opposing things.
 
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