Purple Crispa

[garygb]

Thanks Marc. Time will tell, but the column is thick with this one, so I'm betting on it being a crispa. It's already as large as a mature malu, so it shouldn't be too long before it's either too big to be a malu or it stops growing (i.e., malu).

 

[marc price]

Not an absolute but all of the purple crispa's I've seen don't have as orange of a ground tentacle color as yours, something typical seen with the purple malu's. H.crispa is more of a straw color.

 

[Winwood]

Minh's is a malu for sure. Malus don't always have a colored foot but crispas never do.

 

[OrionN]

Here is a picture of my two Malu. The purple one look just like Gary's anemone. Crispa is one of the host anemone species that I don't have a lot of experience with.

 

[marc price]

- another colum of a different malu that I have. Unusual in that the color is pinkish red which is very unusual. -

That's wild! I never saw H. malu with that kind of color, orange, yellow, splotches of either but not hot pink. Even the verrucae look wrong for H. malu. It looks like H. magnifica, can you snap a pix of the mouth at various times of day, also before and after feeding?

 

[OrionN]

He dig deep in the sand, 3 inches to the bottom of the tank. He is only about 4 inches in diameter. The LFS, Aquatic collection, sold him as a Magnifica.

 

[marc price]

How long have you had it, and how long has it ben dug in the sand? What type of sand, sugar sized, chunks of coral or a mix? Have the tentacles all colored up? pix pix...

 

[OrionN]

Marc,
Read this thread, start at about page two is where we discussed about this anemone.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2557077

 

[marc price]

^ I had previously read that thread starting at page #6.

 

[OrionN]

I bought Vincent's (vhuang168) anemone. That is the one.