Ritteri anemone

[anthonys51]

Ps that's a bubble tip


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[anthonys51]

Not a bta


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[D-Nak]

First, I'll answer your questions:

1. if bta are purple

YES. They're common.


2. if they stick to rock with its disk

Typically NO. My understanding is that they don't have verrucae.


3. if they can stretch there foot 6 inches

YES. I've seen some stretch longer than that. They look silly, but it happens.


Second, we've gone over this already...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2523081

Furthermore, generally speaking, BTA like to hide their foot. Magnifica do not. They spread their foot out like a fried egg on top of a flat rock.

To be completely honest with you... it does look like you have two different anemones. One is a BTA and the other is a magnifica. I don't think your nem hid and split. I think you may have purchased what you thought were BTAs on separately occasions where one was really a BTA and the other was actually a magnifica. I say this because their postures and appearance are completely different. The one in the rocks is 100% BTA. The one on the back wall is the suspect anemone that could be a magnifica. It looks a lot like the one that I used to have (photo in the thread I linked).

However, if you watched it split and you know that you only bought one nem , then by deduction they are both BTAs simply because one of them is CLEARLY, 100% without a doubt, a BTA (that's doing a good job pretending that it's a magnifica).

 

[anthonys51]

First, I'll answer your questions:

1. if bta are purple

YES. They're common.


2. if they stick to rock with its disk

Typically NO. My understanding is that they don't have verrucae.


3. if they can stretch there foot 6 inches

YES. I've seen some stretch longer than that. They look silly, but it happens.


Second, we've gone over this already...

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2523081

Furthermore, generally speaking, BTA like to hide their foot. Magnifica do not. They spread their foot out like a fried egg on top of a flat rock.

To be completely honest with you... it does look like you have two different anemones. One is a BTA and the other is a magnifica. I don't think your nem hid and split. I think you may have purchased what you thought were BTAs on separately occasions where one was really a BTA and the other was actually a magnifica. I say this because their postures and appearance are completely different. The one in the rocks is 100% BTA. The one on the back wall is the suspect anemone that could be a magnifica. It looks a lot like the one that I used to have (photo in the thread I linked).

However, if you watched it split and you know that you only bought one nem , then by deduction they are both BTAs simply because one of them is CLEARLY, 100% without a doubt, a BTA (that's doing a good job pretending that it's a magnifica).

Lol. Like your response. I didn't watch them spilt. But I do know I didn't buy a bta

Purple very common. I never seen a purple bta with a white mouth and white tips. Please show me a picture.
Also you see from the picture the anemones sticking to the rock
So bubbles means 100 precent bubble tip but the fact it sticks to the rock unlike a bubble tip means it's still a bubble tip

So if I take out the rock what can I look for to see if it's a bta or ritteri I know my bta will strink down almost nothing. With ritteri do that too. I only moved it once out if water. Don't remember if it did that


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[Swayze27]

Judging by the face and what I can see around the mouth it's definitely a BTA. It sounds like you are upset by this news but obviously you like the anemone so just accept that it's a BTA and care for it. I have 2 mags this color and the faces around the mouth have no white in them. Yours appear to have the typical white lines around the mouth which is a good indication of BTA. Some BTA have tentacles longer than magnifica, so as stated in other posts, the absence of bulbs and long tentacle length does not make it a ritteri/ magnifica. You bought a BTA, so either the wrong item was shipped to you or it was mislabeled/ misidentified in LFS, it happens. Many post on here asking what in the world kind of anemone they have, some are very similar to other species and you have to pay close attention to detail. Good luck and at least you got a free anemone already out of the deal.

 

[mnchartier]

See how it sticks to the rock bta don't do that. This is the one without the bubbles


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Another difference between mags and BTA is the ridge of the oral disc and tentacles. There is a clear ridge on BTAs where the tentacles stop, mags do not have this ridge. You can clearly see the difference in the pic you posted above in post 9 compared to this one below

 

[anthonys51]

Judging by the face and what I can see around the mouth it's definitely a BTA. It sounds like you are upset by this news but obviously you like the anemone so just accept that it's a BTA and care for it. I have 2 mags this color and the faces around the mouth have no white in them. Yours appear to have the typical white lines around the mouth which is a good indication of BTA. Some BTA have tentacles longer than magnifica, so as stated in other posts, the absence of bulbs and long tentacle length does not make it a ritteri/ magnifica. You bought a BTA, so either the wrong item was shipped to you or it was mislabeled/ misidentified in LFS, it happens. Many post on here asking what in the world kind of anemone they have, some are very similar to other species and you have to pay close attention to detail. Good luck and at least you got a free anemone already out of the deal.

I didn't but it my friend did. It was a gift. But that's not the point. I am not upset.
Can I see pictures of your ritteri so I can see the difference myself. Please take pictures of a few angels


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[anthonys51]

Another difference between mags and BTA is the ridge of the oral disc and tentacles. There is a clear ridge on BTAs where the tentacles stop, mags do not have this ridge. You can clearly see the difference in the pic you posted above in post 9 compared to this one below

Whst do you mean by clear ridge


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[mnchartier]

Whst do you mean by clear ridge


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Look at the picture I quoted from post 9, at the bottom of the anemone near the rock you can see like a gap from where the tentacles stop growing and the end of the oral disc to foot, its almost like a round edge. This round edge does not exist on a mag the tentacles grow right up to the end of the disc on a mag as seen on the picture I posted of my mag.

 

[anthonys51]

Look at the picture I quoted from post 9, at the bottom of the anemone near the rock you can see like a gap from where the tentacles stop growing and the end of the oral disc to foot, its almost like a round edge. This round edge does not exist on a mag the tentacles grow right up to the end of the disc on a mag as seen on the picture I posted of my mag.

I really don't see the difference. The anemone you shows disk is completely off the rock. Why the picture shows my anemone disk complete glued to the rock. Bta don't glue themselves to rocks on the disk.

If the anemone didn't have a bubble tip and you saw it would you say it was a bta.

Can you send me pictures of your ritteri anemones please few pictures please


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[anthonys51]

Also bta are very round in shape. This anemone isn't close to
Round


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[Swayze27]

All I have at the moment
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[anthonys51]

Really hard to tell, they could be plastic anemone all I know lol
But all joking aside really Like your rock work. Are the bonded or did you just lay them


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[mnchartier]

I really don't see the difference. The anemone you shows disk is completely off the rock. Why the picture shows my anemone disk complete glued to the rock. Bta don't glue themselves to rocks on the disk.

If the anemone didn't have a bubble tip and you saw it would you say it was a bta.

Can you send me pictures of your ritteri anemones please few pictures please


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Here I zoomed and cropped the area that I am talking about.



And here is one of one of my BTAs attached under a rock streching out.


And some of my mag, yes its on anemone even though it looks like two the way it holds itself up.

 

[anthonys51]

Here I zoomed and cropped the area that I am talking about.



And here is one of one of my BTAs attached under a rock streching out.


And some of my mag, yes its on anemone even though it looks like two the way it holds itself up.

Ok I see that. But honestly the first 2 pictures look like the same anemone except one is stick to the rock one isn't. You really think the bta look like that picture. Also like I said before I never seen a bta with purple color and white tips. Someone said they are common. I never seen one for sale
I seen gbta Red bt rose bt mix of green and red


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[anthonys51]

If I showed this picture to 100 reefers. You think they would say same anemone or different

I am going to take the rock out of the water and take the picture


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[mnchartier]

If I showed this picture to 100 reefers. You think they would say same anemone or different

I am going to take the rock out of the water and take the picture


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Different, not only the edge of the pedal/oral disc but also the shape of the tips on the tentacles, the top go to more of a point while the one on the bottom are round blunt tips

 

[anthonys51]

I don't see it sorry. They look the same to me. Can someone else chime in. Yes one is showing its underside one isn't. But looks the same. Your picture is closer zoom so you can see the tips better


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[jah hoeva]

Different, not only the edge of the pedal/oral disc but also the shape of the tips on the tentacles, the top go to more of a point while the one on the bottom are round blunt tips

I totally agree.

 

[Jamie1210]

I will chime in on the color. Yes, the purple color is pretty common in btas. I've seen many on liveaquaria DD like that as well as at my lfs.

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