what type of anemone is this??

mdgreene

mdgreene

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Hey all - so I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what kind of anemone this is? I have looked all over the web trying to find an anemone that looks like this and I can't find anything that looks even remotely close. I wish the picture was a little more clear. The fish store said it was a bubble tip anemone, but it doesn't look like any bubble tips that i've looked at online. the tentacles don't look round enough to be bubble tips. it's tentacles are very short and kind of pointy on the ends. they have purple-ish looking likes about halfway up the tentacle, which you can sort of see in the picture. it opens up and the tentacles are much more spaced apart.
i'm corn-fused. if anyone can help, i'd appreciate it.
Thanks!
 
mdgreene

mdgreene

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It's a sebae? it doesn't look like the normal looking sebaes that i've seen at the store and online. i thought sebaes had a round, almost fat cylindrical tentacle with a purple dot at the end of it with a rounded tip. this thing has a pointed tip almost and is short and kinda skinny with no purple dots at the tips. is this like a baby sebae and hasn't developed it's normal shape and color yet?
 
spanko

spanko

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I am sorry but I thought I could see some purple on the tentacles, still do maybe it is the color settings on the computer I am using.
For your info from wetwebmedia
"Has numerous long, tapering tentacles that end in points. Column gray in color."
 
mdgreene

mdgreene

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:) sorry, my description is confusing. it does have what looks like purple lines that circle around the tentacle about halfway along the length of the tentacle, but just not any purple dots on the tips of the tentacle, which seem to be a signature of the sebae anemone. that's why i'm all confused about what this really is.
 
gemmy

gemmy

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When I get home, I'll post pics of my sebae. I have pics from when I got it and it was unhealthy.
 
mdgreene

mdgreene

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awww nuts!!! an unhealthy sebae?? boy am i going to go back to the fish store and give them hell...
gemmy, can't wait to see the pics of what you had and how did you get yours healthy again?
thanks!
 
gemmy

gemmy

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When I first got my sebae:

Now:

I got it healthy by making sure I have adequate lighting. The anemone had expelled all its zooxanthellae. This is an algae that lives in the tentacles of the anemone and survives off of photosynthesis. The zooxanthellae is critical to an anemones survival, since it provides vital nutrients to the anemone. Many anemones also receive their coloring from the pigmentation of the zooxanthellae.
 
spanko

spanko

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Looks great, nice and healthy. Beautiful angel too. Does it pick at your coral or the anemone? Looks like it is thinking about taking a bite in the picture.
 
gemmy

gemmy

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bang Guy http:///t/390599/what-type-of-anemone-is-this#post_3460286
WOW! Looking really good now.
Thanks!! I have almost had this anemone for 2 years.
Quote:
Originally Posted by spanko http:///t/390599/what-type-of-anemone-is-this#post_3460292
Looks great, nice and healthy. Beautiful angel too. Does it pick at your coral or the anemone? Looks like it is thinking about taking a bite in the picture.

Thanks! The angel used to rip food out of the anemone's mouth and some corals. It seems to have grown out of that. However, whenever I break out the camera, the angel is front and center.
 
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