Roaming Long Tentical Anemone

You can feed it and keep the shrimp and fish away by feeding them first, then you can use a stick to keep the other animal away until the anemone swallow the food.
Some of the area on the anemone is brownish (have zooxanthellae). These are the healthier areas. They will get darker and spread to the white/clear area if the anemone is getting better
 
Yes that is super bleached.

I have a skunk cleaner shrimp that tries to steal food from my nems so I have to hand it a piece of food to eat while I feed my nems. Then for my lta, I also have to give decoy food to my large pistol shrimp that will try to steal from it. But it's not hard. Yesterday I acquired a very small lta (a little over half an inch in diameter fully expanded) so I have two lta's now :)

Yours will probably turn brown/dark green when healthy.
 
Definitely bleached, but with your light and feeding it will likely come back. Don't count on your LTA staying there because it is surrounded by three sides with live rock and has been there two days. Until it has its base buried in sand, I expect it's going to move every week or so. To remain stationary, long-term, your best bet is 6 inches of fine sand (oolitic would be perfect). As I and others have suggested, this can bed done by building a small sand box, such as in a pvc pipe.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11367969#post11367969 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MMM33732
Explain the sand box idea with the pvc....
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Just get a container anything that can hold sand and put it in your tank with sand it it and put your anemone in this container.
Get a reasonably deep container, 3+ inches. If your anemone is attached to a small piece of rock, then put this rock in the container and start to fill it up with sand. This anemone like to attach to something under the sand. It like really deep sand where it can completely sink under but IME, 3 inches or so will keep it happy.
You can hide this container behing some rock to cover it up.
Goodluck
 
MMM, could you post a few more pics of your anemone? I was just looking at the pic you posted yesterday and it looks kinda like a BTA, which would mean it doesn't want to be in the sand at all, but instead in the live rock. LTA's have a red base usually--even when they are bleached. Does yours? Before putting it in a sand box, post some more pics and let us make sure we are advising you correctly. If that happens to be a BTA, it's not going to appreaciate having its base buried.
 
Post a picture of the column, this would clarify the question of BTA vs. LTA. I agree with Gary that it may be a BTA from the picture.
 
If it is a LTA its foot should be red on the bottom and turn to tan on top with white ver. spots on top.
 
I have these 2 pics, but like I said, my battery needs to charge, then i can try to get one of the base when its closed up.

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Can you tell if those are indeed true percs from the pictures or no?
 
Thanks for the pics, but I'll tell you, it looks as much like a BTA to me as an LTA. A pic of the column would be helpful, if possible. How is it doing, btw?

And as far as your ocellaris vs. percula question, I'll leave that to someone who is more expert in the matter--I'd say ocellaris myself, but I don't claim to be great at differentiating the two unless it is clearly a perc.
 
Its doing pretty good. Still the same color- white with greenish tips. It was sold to me as a LTA, although, the tips do sometimes have slight bulge to them similar to a candle flame shape, which to me brought up the question as to whether or not it was really a LTA. It hasn't moved from its spot thats pictured in a few days now. Well it moved partially from there for about an hour then moved right back to where it is. Seems to be doing good though. Doesn't get a tremendous amount of light, but I feed it whenever possible and it still hasn't moved yet. I'll try to get a picture of the base in a little bit. It usually only closes up for about an hour or two a day when the actinic lights first click on.
 
Sounds like it is acclimating. In the position it is, I would also lean toward BTa, since LTA's prefer to have their column buried in the sand.
 
That is a BTA you have there. No wonder it wasn't digging in to the sand. Glad you didn't try our suggestions to bury it in sand when you were calling it an LTA. BTA's like what it's attached to in the last pic--live rock. Often times they will wander a little until they find a cave/crevice. Let it do that on it's own. It may be perfectly happy right where it is now, I just find that mine seem to prefer a little cave or overhang to position themselves in.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11384305#post11384305 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MMM33732
How can you tell?
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When you see enough of them you can just tell. Your fish have no A. percula characteristic what so ever. It just very typical Ocellais without anything that would cause me to question that ID.
You do not have a M. doreensis, which is what most people mean when they say LTA. You do have what look like E. quadricolor which is commonly know as BTA. It does not dwell in the sand but moving up in the rocks.
 
Huh.. I got ripped of then! Ohh well. So its a BTA then... So then I take it its not bleached? Do you have a picture of a LTA so I can further understand the difference? Every picture I found ended up looking like what I have.
 
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