rhs Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 Is this a bubble tip anemone ? Link to comment
BKtomodachi Posted December 13, 2004 Share Posted December 13, 2004 That is messed up... it has split tentacles an stuff... My guess is a lta.. they get massive as well. Link to comment
BKtomodachi Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 Which gets truly massive as well. Link to comment
Fant Posted December 14, 2004 Share Posted December 14, 2004 it could be a torch coral.. which isnt an anemone and not a natural host for any clown.. Bubble tips arent natural hosts for percula or ocelleris clowns.. but sometimes both species will take to btas in captivity.. btw bta's can have split tenatacles my rose has several. Link to comment
BKtomodachi Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Fant- Really? I cant say I've ever seen that on our GBTA at work before, I'll have to look more closely. I like "Deep Thoughts" (your sig) as well, haha. Link to comment
rhs Posted December 15, 2004 Author Share Posted December 15, 2004 It walked around quite a distance, so I'm confident it's an anemone. Link to comment
kamalehi Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 were did you buy this anenome? Link to comment
rhs Posted December 15, 2004 Author Share Posted December 15, 2004 Oceans and Seas, LFS in Michigan Link to comment
kamalehi Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 o. did they say where its from? Link to comment
kamalehi Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 does it look any thing like this when clowns arent in it? Link to comment
kamalehi Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 does it look any thing like this when clowns arent in it? Link to comment
rhs Posted December 15, 2004 Author Share Posted December 15, 2004 No, but I thought it resembled the "bulb anemone" from the www.liveaquaria.com site. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Di....cfm?pCatId=604 Link to comment
kamalehi Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 that is a bubble tip, but i dont think their tenticles branch Link to comment
rhs Posted December 16, 2004 Author Share Posted December 16, 2004 Those tentacles are not branching. The picture only looks that way. Link to comment
Doc Shake Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 It looks like what is called a "sebae" anemone, Heteractis malu or H. crispa. Look at the base, if the verrucae are in rows, its a H. malu, if they are all over its a H. crispa. Link to comment
rhs Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 I saw an "L.T. Plate" tonight that looked like it. Is an L.T. Plate an anemone or does it have a boney skeleton like a brain ? Link to comment
Doc Shake Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 A LT Plate is a Heliofungia sp., it is a hard coral not an anemone. What you have is an anemone. Just take a look at the verrucae on the basal column and you can ID the species. Link to comment
SaltyDawg Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 Yes they do. I still say SADDLE ANEMONE. Bulb tip, no . Fungia, no .Sebae, no. Tortch coral? WTF! Got any more drugs? LOL!!!!! On a saddle anemone the branches do fork and form "U"shaped tenticles. They get INSANLEY HUGE so if it is be prepeired as it grows to sell it or relocate it to a much larger aquarium. I mean they get like 3 FEET in diameter. Not at a fast rate though. They are also varacious stingers when they get larger. If they sting your hand or arm it will sloth off the skin around the burnt/stung area. ( Got me once in a buddy's aqarium trying to rescue a broken peice of tortusa.) They are also a VERY expensive animal so you got lucky in that aspect too if it is indeed a saddle. Link to comment
Doc Shake Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 What are commonly called "saddle anemones" are Stichodactyla haddoni, they are carpet anemones and there is no way that any of the anemones on this thread are carpets...no way. Also, a branching tentacle cant be used as a key in anemone identification as bifurcation is very common in many species. Think Heteractis sp.. Link to comment
SaltyDawg Posted December 19, 2004 Share Posted December 19, 2004 Doc: Never said it was, that is I never made a posetive ID for him. Just an observation and an opinion. I also wanted to point out that the tenticles were branching, as some one said that they were not and that the pic just made it look that way. BTW they arent called carpet anemones. They dont even resemble them. A carpet anemone lives at the base of a reef system and spreads out with thick short tenticles. They are yellow, pink, blue, red you name it. A saddle anemone is pink to tan in coloration and has longer more pronounced tenticles and lives either near the top of a reef or midways. They also get 4 times the size of a carpet anemone. carpet anemones, saddle anemones = two different animals within the same order. Not trying to start anything here just saying I have seen plenty of carpets and plenty of saddles. They dont resemble eachother to me. EDIT: Saddle anemones are also found in green tipped and purple tipped variations, buut prodominatley pink to tan. Link to comment
brahm Posted December 19, 2004 Share Posted December 19, 2004 the splitting tenticales means nothing. I've had that happen with several diffrent spieces of anenome. It just happens from time to time, I'd say a sebea. Link to comment
SaltyDawg Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 yep could be brahm. The size is throwing me off though. I have never seen one that size before. I mean I have seen them like 9 inches in diameter but that one looks like it could get MUCH bigger when fully expanded. Link to comment
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