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Old 01-08-2004, 10:19 PM
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There is egg on my face. I was looking at your anemone again ... and .... I don't think you have S. gigantea. Looking at the pictures here http://www.geocities.com/fish_boy1986/anemone.html it's quite apparent the carpet has tentacles much, much longer towards the centre of the oral disk versus the periphery of the oral disk, and this is a classic ("textbook") trait of S. mertensii.

Not to alarm you, but S. mertensii is perhaps the largest of all the hosting anemones. They can easily get to a meter in diameter in the wild

But don't get me wrong, it's a VERY cool anemone still, whatever species it is.
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