What kind of anemone is this?

[grandmaester]

Got it about a week ago and everything has been fine. He was paired with a tomato clown at the store, but I got another clown instead. The new clown and this nem haven't paired, but now my clown has completely disappeared. He had lymphocystosis so he may have passed from that, but I have a feeling this nem ate him.

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[Dkuhlmann]

That anemone didn't eat your fish. I'm pretty sure that its a BTA, and a bleached one at that. I'd like to see it's foot for a positive ID but pretty sure it's a BTA, and BTA's don't eat fish.

Lymphs would have to be many to kill a fish, and they're usually pretty easy to get rid of with either fresh water dips or treating with Prazipro.

As far as the BTA being a host anemone to Maroons, Clarki's and tomato's there are a few others but BTA"s are not natural hosts to Percula and Ocellaris.

 

[OrionN]

That is a M. doreensis or LTA. He does nto apperat well. Very stressed. He is a sand bed anemone.

 

[grandmaester]

Thanks for the help guys. The clown I think must have gone deep under the rocks to die...he wasn't doing too well with that infection. The anenome is looking better than when I got him. Is he bleached because too much light? He moved down to where he is now from a higher rock and looks comfortable...closing at night and eating mysis shrimp.

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[OrionN]

I am not sure which clowns but LTA is not the natural host of Ocellaris or Percula and have been known to eat Ocellaris and Percual

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Minh, I originally thought it was an LTA because of the sort of curly tentacles, but that anemone has the white lines outward from the mouth, I was pretty sure that is only a trait of BTA's. Please explain

 

[SeaCucumberFan]

Minh, I originally thought it was an LTA because of the sort of curly tentacles, but that anemone has the white lines outward from the mouth, I was pretty sure that is only a trait of BTA's. Please explain

Search up Long tentacle anemone on google images and check out the bleached one a one scroll down

 

[OrionN]

Other anemones have these type of lines too, just not H. magnifica. These line can be use to distinguish H. magnifica vs E. quadricolor only.
Here is a clear M. doreensis with these white line around the mouth (not my picture). The shape of the tentacles, and the spacing of these tentacles make it fairly easy to ID as M. doreensis