Type of anemone?

[ejpreefer]

I picked this up the other day... They called it a shrimp anemone but to me appears to be a carpet gig anemone. It is very sticky..

It is pink, white, and green but may be bleached. It is about 4 to 5 inches when fully open. It just ate two krill.

 

[phender]

Sorry if this comes up twice.

Does the underside have a lot of brown spots or are there just a few blue/purple spots under the disk? Brown spots would mean its an Atlantic carpet (forgot the species name), if the spots are blue/purple its a gigantea.

 

[nemguy]

That's a gigantea carpet anemone


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[nemguy]

I have one just like it it's a bit bleached

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[OrionN]

It is a S. gigantea.

phender was thinking of the Sun anemone, S. helianthus. However, the oral disk of Sun anemone is smaller in compare to the foot and thus does not have the folds of the oral plate like your anemone.

 

[davocean]

Giggity...

 

[Pond Boy]

Nice specimen. Be prepared it will get massive if kept happy, and yes they are sticky buggers ..

 

[ejpreefer]

Anemone

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I finally was able to look they are bright blue spots? Does this mean it is just bleached out? It is doing awesome. Seems like it might be changing colors. It eats squid chunks once every 5 days or so.

 

[ReefMonkey714]

I have one just like it it's a bit bleached

That's a nice black tang there buddy
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