Show Your Unusual Colored BTA

[b.branscombe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10455964#post10455964 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by a&cbowman
That one looks like an h magnifica to me. they need lots of light, lots of flow and lots of food. very hard to keep maybe thats why you are having problems keeping it?... just my opinion though.

Who said I was having problems keeping it?:lol:

I really doubt it is an H. Magnifica, although it does have a similar coloration doesn't it? I don't think one could have survived in my tank, as this was my first salt tank and it was added only 3 months in. This picture I found of H. Magnifica on the internet does look a fair bit like mine, and mine sometimes also show the exact same coloring and texture on their foot, so I see why you could have thought it was one. Who knows? Maybe I've been keeping the most difficult anemone all this time and never knew it?

 

[fijiblue]

Do mags split in captivity, though? I don't think people are able to keep them long enough to find out

 

[b.branscombe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10458020#post10458020 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fijiblue
Do mags split in captivity, though? I don't think people are able to keep them long enough to find out

From the anemone FAQ at the top of the page:

At least two species of clown anemone (E. Quadricolor and H. Magnifica) have been known to split in captivity.

The plot thickens. We need an anemone expert or something in here I think to settle this.

 

[marc price]

the column of h. magnifica has longitudinal rows of translucent verrucae which are the same colour as the column or slightly lighter or darker.
e. quadricolor lacks verrucae
i don't see verrucae in your pics, it's is a bta.

 

[b.branscombe]

So the verrucae are the light spots seen in this picture of a h. magnifica?

Yeah, I've never seen those. Thanks for your help. :thumbsup:

 

[GSMguy]

yours is a bta B.branscombe

 

[TOURKID]

heres mine, Ill try to get an updated picture tomorrow, it has changed somewhat but is still two toned

 

[phender]

This just came in from the Maldives. Don't even ask how much it costs.

Just kidding. I was playing around with Photoshop this morning.

 

[timrandlerv10]

HAHAHA...jerk

 

[55semireef]

You had me going there Phender but I was still going to ask how much it costs anyways.

 

[bluerug]

Phender very nice trick, could you imagine an anemone of that sort? That would be awesome.

 

[Mikigo]

Yeah. I saw bunch of them the other day.

In my dreams.

 

[Boat_Drinks]

I picked this one up a few months ago at my LFS.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/117097Anemone_0292.jpg

 

[Boat_Drinks]

Apparently I'm not too good at posting pictures...

I'll figure it out one of these days... I picked this one up at my LFS a few months ago. They were selling it as an Australian White-tip rose anemone.

 

[b.branscombe]

Here you go:

 

[55semireef]

 

[55semireef]

No my picture was not enhanced in any shape or form.

 

[phender]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10503788#post10503788 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Boat_Drinks
Apparently I'm not too good at posting pictures...

I'll figure it out one of these days... I picked this one up at my LFS a few months ago. They were selling it as an Australian White-tip rose anemone.

I saw a couple white-tipped rose anemones last week. They were very nice. One of them was about 18" across. I had never see a BTA that big before.

 

[onecrzyboi4u]

very nice anemone!!! i'm jealous

 

[Boat_Drinks]

Thanks b.branscombe!

18"... holy smokes, that's a huge BTA!