Anemone Identification help

Anthony Scholfield · Oct 21, 2020

So I received this Nem from a friend who got it in a trade and intended to sell it. Well when I went to his place this last weekend, I walked downstairs to check his tanks out and found this nem being sucked into the power head. Who knows how long it was happening but it was pretty mangled and wrapped up in it. I finally got it untangled and as you might imagine it wouldn’t be sold now. My friend was in no way set up to house this thing or treat it so I took it.

I believe it is likely a rose BTA but I’m a little unsure. It is quite large and has some interesting green marks around the mouth.

Today is day 5 of its cipro Treatment and it is doing quite well and should recover nicely.

StlSalt · Oct 21, 2020

I think those lines around the mouth mean it's for sure a BTA. Looks like a rose, but I'm not really an expert on all of the color variants. Props on rescuing it though, nice work.

James M · Oct 21, 2020

Looks like a Sherman bubble tip anemone.

ThePhoReefer · Oct 21, 2020

I second with Sherman, but he’s really stressed

vetteguy53081 · Oct 21, 2020

Pretty bubble tip. As pretty as the watermelon version

ScubaFish802 · Oct 21, 2020

@OrionN could probably confirm for us. But I say BTA as well

OrionN · Oct 22, 2020

It is a Rose BTA. I am not sure if it is a named clone or not.

Anthony Scholfield · Oct 22, 2020

Thanks everyone for your input, I was leaning towards a rose too. It does have a nice watermelon color in person and the green around the mouth is quite neat.

Anthony Scholfield · Oct 24, 2020

@OrionN is more than 7 days cipro treatment ever recommended? Today was day 7 and i just added fresh water (8th change). I think the nem is doing well and healing but the last two days the water has gotten cloudy. Not sure if that is a sign it needs more treatment or not.

D-Nak · Oct 26, 2020

I typically don't recommend more than 7 days. At that point, the nem is either going to make it or it's a goner. Based on your photos the nem looks fine so I would just do a water change to get rid of the cloudy water and just keep it in QT another week to observe it.

OrionN · Oct 26, 2020

I agree with D-Nak

Anthony Scholfield · Oct 26, 2020

Great, thanks

I didn’t do another treatment. Just did a 100% water change. Ill continue to watch it and probably need to change the water again before it goes into the display.

Nemguy123 · Oct 29, 2020

Anthony Scholfield said:
Great, thanks I didn’t do another treatment. Just did a 100% water change. Ill continue to watch it and probably need to change the water again before it goes into the display.

Sherman rose bubble tips are the kind of rare ones. They don’t have any green in them just the dark rose/maroon color sometimes some brown but never any green. Once that colors up you’ll know better if it’s just a rose or a Sherman. But I’ve seen bubble tips change colors all the time in other people’s tanks so I really don’t go too much by all the special names. In my opinion it’s a rip off if you’re not matching the sellers tank parameters perfect, there’s a risk you’ll change the color of the bubble tip