Id This Please

sharkbait9

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I need this id-ed please i was told its a sebea it don't look any sebea i've seen. Its still cool none the less doing great eats like a champ and it moved to this spot durning the night and has stayed thier for 3 weeks. but i can not find a pic that i can make a pos id with.


 
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thomas712

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The shear number of tenticals rules out BTA's, Condy's and LTA's.
Narrowing it down those tentacles are similar to the Heteractis crispa anemone. Its been there for three weeks where other sand dwelling anemones would have crawled down long before that and headed for the bottom, this includes most carpets as well..
Green color, not to terribly unusual either.
Question is, if it is an H.Crispa why are the tentacles so compact and retracted making it look more riccordia like right now?
When was this picture taken, day or night?
What lighting is it under?
Did it look this way when you purchased it?
Thomas
 

sharkbait9

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Pic was taken at night. I have been watching for a while at the store every couple of days i would go and check out some stuff and the anemone and he was eating fine. He was stuck to the the sand,glass and live rock, So i was a little confused with that but it was under pc lighting not under the mh lights. trying to let it find its self i placed it on the sand in a corner just the way it was at the store. it moved a little up the rock and stayed. The tents get big and puffy in the day time, and close up when the act lights click off then about 20 min later he closes shop for the night. It has been doing the same thing day in day out, it kind of closes up a little during the day if its dropping a duce, after that back open never any "snot" streaming from him except when i got done dripping for 2hrs and then freeing him into the tank. I'm really hoping this is not a carpet of some kind i only have pc lighting, not hqi or mh yet.
 

speg

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Did you buy two of them? :p looks like another smaller one just above it in the second picture.
 

sharkbait9

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no the other one is sopposed to be a bubble tip but i doubt that also. going on the assumtion that it was a bta i put it on the very top of the lr and it did not like that it moved to were you see it in the pic and has been in that spot for the three weeks also bought them at the same time.
 

speg

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Why did you buy stuff when you dont even know what it is? :) no offense or nothing.. but thats what ends up getting you in trouble!
 

sharkbait9

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Well when you go to a store and check things out and see what’s new and something catches your eye and you like it you ask questions, not always taking an answer as fact but for the most part assuming they know what they have in a display case. I tend to lean with "ok that’s what it is" but after letting them get comfy in the tank and after a while thinking Gee mine don't look like what the other boys have. I better look and find out what I have, hence why I am trying to figure it out. On the other hand now that I have them I have no choice but to learn and learn quick and use my brain and make adjustments or additions to the tank for success or get rid of them since I can’t return them no stores around the jersey are will take live stock back, even under misleading info.
 

unleashed

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i would dare to say it resembles this anenome the most
Stichodactyla mertensii Brandt 1835, Merten's (Carpet) Sea Anemone. Family Stichodactylidae. Folded disc exceeding a meter in diameter in some specimens. Lives on hard surfaces that it covers closely. Small pedal disc, striated with some color. Short tentacles (1cm) of uniform color. Close up and further back on specimens in Pulau Redang, Malaysia. other info on this species
The largest sea anemone, with over 1 m diameter. Disc shaped, with sometimes folded edges. Short and regular tentacles, 1-2 cm long, more spaced and longer in the central area and missing around the mouth. Green or brown tentacles, light brown column with orange or pink stains. Adhaesive verrucae under the oral disc edge hold the disc in position. . regeon: indo pacific
Found on rocky bottoms, along the reef front and external reef. Often the basal disc is fixed into crevices, and the whole animal can withdraw (although not quickly).
This is a species with zooxanthellae. Obligate association with anemone fishes (in our area Amphiprion clarkii, A. sandaracinos, A. ocellaris), also associated occasionally with the three spot damsel Dascyllus trimaculatus and with the porcelain crab (Neopetrolisthes oshimai).
simular species
Easy to confound with the 2 species belonging to the same genus, S. haddoni and S. gigantea. Apart from the less tightly packed tentacles, the easiest way to distinguish them is based on the environment: S. mertensii is always on rocky bottoms, S. gigantea and S. haddoni on the sand. hope this helps
 

unleashed

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Originally Posted by sharkbait9
oh crap it helps and i need to up grade my lights once again to high mh, great.
go for blue line MH elec retro kits muck better than magnetic ballest and pendants elec ballest also cheeper to run than magnetic
 
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