Sebea or Bubbletip? Please help!

[r1v2c]

Yesterday at the lfs I picked up what I thought was a white bubble tip. After I brought it home I stared at it for a little too long maybe

I started to think it was a sebea anemone (the lfs had several bubbletips/sebeas in the same tank). I'll take a pic when I can, but since yesterday it moved to the back of my tank behind some rock.
My question is, I read that sebea anemones are harder to maintain and are more aggressive then bubbletips. Is there anything I can look for to really differentiate what I have? The nem has a dark orange foot with white tentacles and pink/purple tips.
If it turns out to be a sebea... I might return it to the lfs ... if I can reach it with tearing apart my rock-work.
Any help is really appreciated Thanks!

 

[braydonosu]

I'm no nem expert, but that sounds more like a sebea to me. All of the sebea's that I have seen are cream to white with a dark pink/purple dot at the end of the tenticles. I have never seen a bta or a rbta look like that before.
I'm sure that there are other people on here that will chiime in with a more definitive answer.

 

[spanko]

http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/ebooks/intro.html
Try looking here.
Here is a little more.
Identification:
Heteractis crispa is generally easy to discern as a species... Most have rather long, slender and numerous tentacles that taper toward their apex, and each of these tentacles bears a more or less prominent pink tip. Their "stalks" are generally grayish in color, with no evidence of verrucae (striations).

 

[braydonosu]

I take that back - if you look at the picture of the bta under the inverts tab you can see small purple dots at the ends of tenticles - maybe you do have a bta after all

 

[lmecher]

Post a photo, there is no such thing as a healthy white bta, if it's white, it's bleached.

 

[r1v2c]

Originally Posted by Lmecher
http:///forum/post/2894614
Post a photo, there is no such thing as a healthy white bta, if it's white, it's bleached.
What does it mean if it's bleached? ... how does it bleach?

 

[lmecher]

When anemones bleach, they expell their zooanthella. This link explains it better than I could.
http://www.karensroseanemones.com/zooxanthellaeloss.htm

 

[invertcrazy]

I have never had a sebae, but from what I have read and heard from others a sebae is harder to keep than a bta.

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by InvertCrazy
http:///forum/post/2897360
I have never had a sebae, but from what I have read and heard from others a sebae is harder to keep than a bta.
+1 sebae's are more sensitive than bta's.