ID please

dirk_brijs

dirk_brijs

Member
can someone positive ID this.
On the pics it looks like the clowns do host it but in real they seem to be very willing but seem to jump away every time entering the anemone??


 
meowzer

meowzer

Moderator
I almost want to say Long tentacle anemone....and if that is the case, I believe they like to bury their foot in the sand....not on rock
 
spanko

spanko

Active Member
 
 




Looks like a LTA to me. Here is a description from wet web media.
 
 
Macrodactyla doreensis (Quoy & Gaimard 1833), the Corkscrew Tentacle Sea Anemone, Long Tentacle Anemone (LTA), Sand, Red Based... Anemone. Column colored dull orange to red on lower part, to white above, buried in sediment that it can completely retract into. Oral disc flared widely, with few, but long sinewy, tapering, corkscrew-like tentacles. Distinctive (eye-like) verrucae in rows Disc often with radial appearance. In N. Sulawesi typically w/o fishes, in the mud, and in captivity.




 
dirk_brijs

dirk_brijs

Member
ok guys.
How sure are we about it being an LTA??
reason me asking is after reading up on LTAs and listening to you all LTAs supposed to be sand dwellers right. So took it of the rock i placed it on first and put it in the sand. Now it doesnt seem to attaching to anything on to of the sand in the sand... even dug a hole for it to the glass and tried that but it seem to do everything possible to wriggle itself out of it blowing itself up to the max??
Now tried again to place it on a rock and there it seem to be attaching itself??
Anyway I placed it back on the sand for now as I wanted to check with you guys first before sending it back permanent to a rock maybe??
Please help??
Some more pics of it early this morning no lights on yet
just 5 minutes after a dug a hole for it burying its foot complete but you can see it blowing itself up trying to come out of it.



 
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