WTB: RBTA!

[Delphinus]

You can't really tell by the foot unless you have a REALLY trained eye. BTA's and ritteri's can share a lot of characteristics sometimes.

It looks like H. magnifica though. First of all, it just looks like a classic ritteri. But further, you can tell because of its behaviour with respect to substrate and position. Attached to the top of hard substrate, and you can see the edges of the pedal disk.

BTA's like to attach to hard substrate too, but rarely have their pedal disk exposed like that, they prefer to keep the pedal disk within a crevasse or under a cave, and only have their oral disk (the "top" basically) and their tentacles out in the open.


One cautionary note ... They happen to be one of the most spectacular anemones, they also happen to be perhaps the most demanding. If they are happy and well cared for they can be easy but to compare a BTA to a ritteri is absurd, they are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of "ease of care."

They are also the largest hosting anemone. In terms of sheer diameter only S. mertensii surpasses it, but H. magnifica is capable of getting up to 36" in diameter and 12" - 14" in height so in terms of "most volume occupied" this anemone wins hands-down.