anemone ID

[almarktool]

i was told this is a Long Tenticle Carpet Anemone, can anyone confirm this for me, also can anyone explain how my yellow tang and coral beauty keep going into the center of this anemone steeling food etc, and not get eaten ?
Anemone
Thanks

 

[azonic]

Never heard of a long tenticle CARPET anemone...but it sure looks like a long-tenticle anemone to me....
As for your fish not getting eaten...if they are large or fast they shouldnt get eaten by an anemone....the only fish I have ever had eaten by one was a very very tiny cowfish....Anyone who has one...knows that these guys are SLOW. The anemone never died from it either, which was surprising..

 

[mr hanky]

not sure by any means,but it looks like a sebae, i have never seen one that color but it looks kinda similar to one ie, tentacles about an inch to two inch long and a bare spot between the mouth and the tent. as i said though not sure!! maybe youll get some other info from the board!! robby

 

[hawkypro]

your picture of the Anenome looks like an Heteractis ( ritteri ). If this is in fact a Heteractis, keep an eye on you pH level as they react poorly to rapid pH changes. Happy reefing

 

[almarktool]

ph is always between 8.0 and 8.22
got it 5 months ago whaen it was 4"inches in dia., now it is 12 " or so want to move it to my 200 gallon tank next month but afraid of losing it as i have heard other people losing there anemones when moving from one tank to another

 

[sistrmary]

Do you have a picture of the base/foot/stalk/whatever your particular term for it is? It kind of looks like H. Magnifica to me, but you really don't see these in the aquarium trade very often as they get huge.

 

[almarktool]

mary sure do let me go take pic and i will post back ere again when it is up prob 3 min or so

 

[finland]

Could be a long tentacled anemone. Never heard of a long tentacle CARPET anemone either. What color foot does it have. A long tentacle anemone usually has a red or orange base. My tangs always pick food out my LTA. They have a mild sting which doesn't hurt them. A carpet is another story. They have a nasty sting.

 

[sistrmary]

The two major reasons I don't think it's a LTA:
1. They usually don't do very well. Although your tank water may be perfect, lighting perfect, still, they typically move around a lot until they end up in your powerhead. If you can keep them out of the powerhead long enough for them to settle and begin to do well, they don't typically grow this fast. (Although I'm sure there are exceptions)
2. It's blown up on top of the rockwork. LTA's like to bury their columns in either the sand or between rocks..again, *typically*

 

[almarktool]

here is 2 more shots of it ,
foot with cleaner shrimp
another top shot

 

[sistrmary]

I'm sticking with H. Magnifica. Although I could be wrong, you could just have the biggest, weirdest acting LTA around
Does it move a lot? Does it ever look like the column has swallowed the oral disc and just left the tentacle tips hanging out?

 

[mr hanky]

definatly not a ritteri dont think sebae either anymore i think i agree w/ h. magnifica by sister mary if you have the reef aquarium vol 2 check pg 126 looks pretty close to me! hth

 

[almarktool]

well , when i first got it it was small i put it where i wanted it to be but it had a different opion on that after about a week and moved behind the rocks for 2 months then one day it came out and climbed to the top of the rock pile knocking one of my rocks over almost breaking my glass prob and has been there for the last 3 months or so , it's neck does look weired once in awhile like it has something stuck like a disc or something in there but i don't know what it is , i feed it every 2-3 days now with shrimp or silverslides and it just keeps getting bigger do u think it will be safe to move it to the new tank

 

[sistrmary]

I want to say yes, simply because if it is H. Magnifica it will over run your tank if it lives (Not that I want it to die! I'm just saying, yaknow how anemones are.) But it's beautiful. It looks healthy...if it hasn't moved in 3 months, then apparently it likes this spot in this tank. I'd say leave it there unless it poses a problem with the tank. How long has the 200 been set up?

 

[mr hanky]

if you wanna move it see if you can move the rock its on as well so as not to tear its foot (that would surley kill him) as long as the water matches the same in ph, nitrates,etc. you should be fine. when i said not ritteri , let me clairify not a typical looking one(purple colored foot). sorry had to correct myself!

 

[sistrmary]

Well, the different colored foot is a typical thing amongst aquarium anemones..which is why people have such a hard time identifying them. They expel a good portion of their zooxanthellae when they're "harvested" from the wild. This often affects the coloration of the foot/tentacles.

 

[mr hanky]

t m a also says it needs strong light and strong water motion and should be placed on a isolated tall rock as if a pedastal. fact:can grow to just over one meter in dia. whoa dats huge!!!!!

 

[almarktool]

mary,
200 is set up 2 weeks ago with 250lbs LR and 10 days ago 300lbs Ls still -0- reading not expecting a cycle even although i put 4 shrimp in there to try and force a cycle not looking to move it anytime soon just that i am moving from the 72 yellow tang lion coral beauty etc, so i can make the 72 more reef i thought perhaps the anemone might be too aggresive for other corals but maybe not since it doesn't want ot eat the shrimp tang or angel, if i do move it i would of course move the rock and all that is no biggie

 

[sistrmary]

I know that this has nothing to do with the thread, and I'm sorry to sidetrack, but I have to ask...has Chevron Tang always been one of the nicknames? Am I that unobservant, or is it a new one?
Okay, back on track: Yes, that is huge lol

 

[sistrmary]

I wouldn't move it to a newly set up tank. If it's not hurting anything, I'd leave it where it is unless it gets too big to do otherwise. (Like if it starts tumbling other pieces of rock out while it's extending or contracting)