mystery anemone

[hcr22]

Came on some macroalgae as hitchhiker. Its beautiful with yellow fluorescence strips on it, which don't show up in the picture. Its so bright that its very difficult to photograph. 0.5 inch in diameter. Thanks a lot

 

[Bill2]

Looks like bleached out Aiptasia to me.

 

[hcr22]

No, has nothing to do with aipatsia for sure. This is a nice white anemone. Had aiptasia enough until I got some pepermint shrimp, which took care of it in two nights.

 

[Bill2]

Well whatever anemone it is it isn't happy

 

[tazdevil]

Possibly a very young LTA of some sort? I'm with Bill2, it's not a happy one!

 

[Chucker]

Actually, I have a few polyps that live in my sump, and prefer dark areas - they stay on the underside of the rocks.

One other thing to note - there are literally thousands of anemones species out there, folks. Just because we happen to see it in our tanks doesn't necessarily mean it's one of the 15 or so already familiar to us in the hobby. This goes for many other types of critters we see in our tanks too.

 

[hcr22]

Why do you think its not happy? Only because it has not the usual shape? It somehow has quarter sized plain center part from which tentacles extend outwards. It has radial light yellow strips running from the mouth outwards. It's happlily capurting brime shrimp and moving them into the mouth with the tentacles. It was tentatively identified as Capnea lucida or Heteractis lucida in another forum.

 

[tazdevil]

I think that was brought up as it has a "bleached" appearance to it (which could be its natural color), and anemones get like that when they are not happy.

 

[nilestr]

I think the anemone is maybe a flower anemone. I ordered two of them from a online company and one looks exactly like your picture.

 

[Anonymous]

looks very similiar in shape to the anemones generically reffered to as 'rock', or 'flower' anemones.

i believe they are a sort of 'bridge' species between the corallimorphs (mushrooms) and the 'true' anemones.

it does look as if it has lost most of its symbiont algaes-though it may regain them, eventually.i've jad quite a few different types-and they are quite pretty-with a wide variation of color pattern.

hth

 

[Anonymous]

It is a Rock Anemone.

 

[Will C1]

looks like a sand anemone to me but the color suggests it is a low light species. try putting it in some shaded area of youre tank and see how it does. but if its eating then it should be just fine where you have it. cool find its very interesting.