Anemone ID

[kobold]

I've searched around and can't find anything close enough for me to be sure. Maybe some type tube anemone?

Second pic is under just blue light.

 

[Anonymous]

To give you a positive ID we need a picture of the column and a better picture of the oral disc of the anemone. It's either a Macrodactyla sp. or a Condylactis sp. How is the foot attached, to rocks or the substrate? Is the column buried in the substrate?
From what I've seen of the oral disc I'm leaning towards Macrodactyla sp.

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[Anonymous]

First thought was Macrodactyla doreensis as well.

 

[kobold]

It's hard to get a pic of the base, it's surrounded by rock. Here's one while it's eating a krill, you can see some of it. It is just on the sand, not on the rocks at all. When I first put it in, I placed it next to the side of the aquarium thinking it would just go where it wanted. It never moved. Seemed happy enough, just never moved. Just set there in the sand base and didn't offer to go anywhere else. And I've got two clown fish (false percula) in the tank that I was hoping would go to it. Since the clown fish stay pretty much to the other end of the tank, I moved this "anemone" down to that end to see if that would help. It didn't. I feed it krill about every one day and it seems to be doing fine. Been there now for about a month. A couple peppermint shrimp have made a home back behind it, and a cleaner shimp cleans up any leftover krill. I just don't have a clue as to what it is and if there's even a chance that these clowns will go to it.

Is it safe, or wise, to put another anemone in with this thing? Maybe a bubble or something these two clowns will accept?

 

[SnowManSnow]

hmmm BTA isn't out of the question.

 

[Anonymous]

It's hard to get a pic of the base, it's surrounded by rock. Here's one while it's eating a krill, you can see some of it. It is just on the sand, not on the rocks at all. When I first put it in, I placed it next to the side of the aquarium thinking it would just go where it wanted. It never moved. Seemed happy enough, just never moved. Just set there in the sand base and didn't offer to go anywhere else. And I've got two clown fish (false percula) in the tank that I was hoping would go to it. Since the clown fish stay pretty much to the other end of the tank, I moved this "anemone" down to that end to see if that would help. It didn't. I feed it krill about every one day and it seems to be doing fine. Been there now for about a month. A couple peppermint shrimp have made a home back behind it, and a cleaner shimp cleans up any leftover krill. I just don't have a clue as to what it is and if there's even a chance that these clowns will go to it.

Is it safe, or wise, to put another anemone in with this thing? Maybe a bubble or something these two clowns will accept?

From the last 2 pictures and your description of on the sand not rock I would say Macrodactyla doreensis. Your false percs probably will not host in it.
What size tank is this?

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[dodo99]

Looks like an LTA to me.