Are these BTAs?

hunt

hunt

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Im starting to have doubts about what kind of anemones i have in my tank. They were sold to me as "baby" BTAs and i got two for 10 bucks because ones foot was attached to the other during shipping and hadnt gotten a chance to detach and the lfs didnt want to hurt them so they gave them both to me. When i bought them they had the white lines around the mouth that btas generally have but those went away farley soon after i purchased them. They look lighter in the picture because my camera is not the best out there but i have a pic of the mouth and tentacles, and foot. Just looking for confirmation (maybe im just paronoid) but ive had a few people say they dont look like your average BTA.

(the light is just reflecting off the foot, theres nothing i can really do about that)

Thanks,
Hunt
 
spanko

spanko

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from wet web
Their columns (pedicles) are straight, columnar and smooth... that is, they lack the warty, raised verrucae of other large symbiotic anemone species. Usually brownish in color, some bases are green or reddish. Their oral discs are the same color as their tentacles.
 
spanko

spanko

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Can't say why so inexpensive. I see why he would not want to try to get them apart. Am I only seeing one in the picture now? If so where is the other? Perhaps it was a split happening? I have seen other posts on what they term Mini BTA's where people are selling the very inexpensively because they split so often and they have multitudes of them.
 
hunt

hunt

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The last three pics of of my biggest and the first of four on my last post is of the second smaller one. There both on the same rock (the biggest (left) one in the pic was the smaller of the two when i bought it.) It wasnt a split because the foot of the second was clinging to th side of the other adn i watched it crawl off while i was acclimating them. I do think that they were split from another anemone before i bought it because the mouth on one was on the veery side of the anemone.
 
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