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I bought this as a “LTA”. Can anyone help me with a more specific identification? My Ocellaris clowns don’t care about it but the anemone crab loves it!

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nems love to move haha, i was lucky mine found its spot in a couple days of putting it in, it did however make me rearrange my tank as it literally tried to squish itself between rocks lol
 
it looks kinda like long tentacle carpet anemone
or sand anemone
but im not sure
 
Your anemone and crab pair looks gorgeous.

The anemone is a Macrodactyla doreensis, also known as corkscrew anemone or redfoot/redbased anemone. These stripy variants are sometimes called peppermint stick lta.

Macrodactylas are my absolute favourite anemones and fortunately the Polymnus I keep also loves them.
 
I bought this as a “LTA”. Can anyone help me with a more specific identification? My Ocellaris clowns don’t care about it but the anemone crab loves it!

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Your clownfish is not the type to host LTA but Clarkii Clownfish will
 
Your clownfish is not the type to host LTA but Clarkii Clownfish will
yeah mostly clarkis do that
me myself i take care of 7 clowns and i don't have enough bta s so two of them host in my sand lta
the thing i was wondering is that they didn't host my carpet anemone but they hosted the sand anemone
 

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