Anemone ID

[tosiek]

Can anyone ID this? it descided on letting go of the rock with his foot and keeps trying to grab onto the sand but its not working too well for him looks like. He was labeled "some sort of bubble tip" when i got him and noone knew what it was.

 

[tosiek]

Another pic. my camera sucks. sigh

 

[Deanos]

IMO, a dyed Heteractis crispa

 

[crox99]

It's definately dyed. Maybe a sebae?

 

[House of Laughter]

It is definately dyed (sorry T) and it's a purple tip Sabae. IMO

Give it time T, it'll color back to normal.

House

 

[prattreef]

I disagree. I saw this in person at Greenwich Aquaria and it did not look dyed to at all to me.

 

[Deanos]

I disagree. I saw this in person at Greenwich Aquaria and it did not look dyed to at all to me.

While I was skeptical when I saw it a Greenwich Aquaria, that photo convinced me more.

 

[Vic8361]

When I first saw it I thought it was dyed myself but
If it came from Greenwich Aquaria I don't believe it's dyed. I've known Jasson for a while now and thats not his style of doing things. He is able to find some rare stuff though.
Tosiek let us know how the color holds up.

Vic

 

[Deanos]

Vic! :hug:

I'm not accusing him of dying it, but even the best vendors can be fooled by their supplier.

 

[reefman]

1 way to check if the anemone is dyed is the base. the base should be brown, not purple. dyed ones usually expel the color which u may see a tint of it in your skimming. i dont think this anemone is dyed. i believe jason would not allow this practice either.

 

[tosiek]

Its a wierd thing, the bubbles in the middle are always teensy and were when i bought him (thats why i think he looks bleached). I've only had him for 2-3 weeks, and for a week and a half he was inside my rockwork before he descided on popping out. And even then he was half inside a hole in my rockwork not getting much light. Although the middle opened up alot before now but my anemone crab was hosting him and the constant moving on the anemone made his bubbles get small.

so thats his little history in the tank so far, and the pic was taken about an hour after lights were turned on.

He started to dig his foot into the sandbed so i'm hoping thats a good sign. I kept placing him on the rocks and he would curl up and then open up just the right way to catch the current then roll himself off the rocks back on the sand. Pretty cool imo, these guys have a mind of their own =0)

 

[Vic8361]

I hear you Dean, I just find it hard for them to pull a fast one on jasson not that it's impossible but Jason has been around for a long time and really knows his stuff.

Vic

 

[ReeferGoneMad]

nice. Even looks like a ritteri but I doubt it. Very hard to tell the species it is small though which makes me beleive its a purple varient of sebae. Hard to tell from pics but does not look dyed, IMO.

 

[JasonE]

Hi Guys,

I have seen this anemone on two other occasions, and have yet to be able to properly identify it. Dyed anemones always look blatantly dyed, with all the tissue looking the same color.
Personally I am convinced this is not dyed, I initially thought it was a crispa, but with it being as small as it is it really is hard to tell. The foot was certainly not purple.
Sorry for not being more helpful, though I will try to find out where exactly it came from.

 

[reefs4life]

I have a natural sebea anemone and by the shape of it and tantacles it looks exactly the same. I'd have to say it's just a different color then usual ones, original color is usually white tentacles with purple/blue tips.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I don't know why it is that everyone automatically assumes things are dyed if they have an intense color. There are anemones with feet the same color as the body (Ritteris for example). There are also Sebae anemones that are a deep purple, foot and all. You cannot always ID specimens from pics especially corals since the morphology can be effected by captive conditions. Anemones that are possibly not fully open cannot be positively ID'd just by a picture alone. There is also an anemone from the west african coast that is a deep blood red on the foot and a slightly lighter blood red on the disc. On first look the color appears impossibly deep but they are in no way dyed. The are too many specimens out there with varying color morphs to just assume something is dyed because it has intense color. That anemone is not dyed and it is a nice find.