Anemone ID? Another update. Anemone Relocated.

[TheReefGeek]

No, I dont understand any of that, I left my giberish dictionary in my other pants where I store my PhD in biology.

The link to the pictures helped though, thanks.

I have seen that identical pic on a different site, it is a great pic!

[OCDP]

oh man Tony.. that was a chore to read that information you posted

Great picture... That is such a beautiful anemone... if mine is magnifica I sort of wish it had the typical common riterri colours haha.. oh well.

Have you seen any other colours ilke this before on riterri's Tony? It's such a different colour.. dark brown/dark purple with bright neon green tips! I always thought of riterri's as tan coloured or cream/yellowish.

[OCDP]

Alright. I took some pictures, but they aren't the greatest. This guy didn't want to close up... I turkey basted him.. rubbed it a bit.. and this is all I got. Hopefully it helps.. I'll keep an eye on it after lights out and see if it closes up or not.

[OCDP]

One last shot..



So going by the information.. I would guess now that this is a GBTA.

Hope those pictures help,

[OCDP]

Update, the person I was dealing with on RC has now said that it is an H. Magnifica. But no one else has responded yet but him.

[Delphinus]

Marina's guess has equal weight though. I'm still on the fence, I think it's more like Entacmaea quadricolor than it is Heteractis magnifica but it still really does have some vague ambiguity about it. That is the freakiest looking rim I've ever seen BTW, it looks like alien teeth. I should add neither my BTA's nor my ritteri have a rim like that (well I guess that goes without saying since I already said "I have never seen..." oops).

Here's the thing ... over time that ambiguity will lessen. So it will be interesting to see in a few month's time what we can learn.

I don't see any verrucae at all on that column. A little hard to tell since it has a slight wrinkled appearance instead of fully inflated smoothness. I was looking at my ritteri last night to see if there's anything I can extrapolate here. What I noticed is that I can't see the verrucae on the column by colour alone, since they are the exact same colour as the rest of the column. But by looking at the texture, you can see they are there still (so it's not as obvious as that picture of the pink base above, they are evident only if you really look closely enough).

The tentacle shape is also something that I'm noticing. In the second set of photos they widen a little, then are blunt ended with a tiny "nipple" at the very tip. This is something I've never seen on my ritteri. But I have seen it on BTA's.

In the end: my guess == BTA. With about a 60-70% certainty.

But like I said, maybe in a few months time it's possible we can take another stab at this and there will be something new to help with the ID.

[OCDP]

Thanks for your post Tony.

hahaha, Alien teeth.. that's funny. It does have a funky looking rim, doesn't it. Just as one last note, the person I got the anemone from said this was purchased from Ocean, as a GBTA.

Thanks for all of your information and help Tony.. appreciate it. I think what I will do is feed him today, see if he closes up some more, and try and get another shot that way. I rubbed him and he would NOT close last night.

I never seen any verrucae on the column myself Tony.

The tentacle observation is something I had been meaning to point out. They do have a blunt shape with that nipple appearance. I thought riterri's for the most part had stricly that blunt shape.

It will indeed be interesting to see what this turns out to be. But as far as observations I have made.. if it is Riterri, it definately likes the low flow/high light it is in. Because it is not recieving a strong flow. I can see a BTA loving the high light/lower flow area though...

Like I said, I'll try one more time ... feed it and see if it closes up some for an even better picture.

Thanks again all