Help with anemone ID

[offtropic]

Bought this anemone a couple years ago as a RBTA from a local fish store. It quickly took up residence in a rock/crevice, has never moved or split and probably quadrupled in size (I would estimate extended disk at about 11" with tentacles extending well beyond that). While it is stunning in movement and coloration, I've never seen the tentacles bubble like so many of the pictures here - usually long, stringy with sometimes some crazy looking clumping/zigzag/tangles. The foot and disk are white/offwhite. Is this a rbta, something else or no way to know?

 

[blaxsun]

Bubbletip anemones often lose their "bubbles". It's not really known why, so it's entirely possible it is in fact a bubbletip.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Not bubbletip. Its a long tentacle anemone and likely Heteractis magnifica

 

[Jdadams]

Not bubbletip. Its a long tentacle anemone and likely Heteractis magnifica

Where do you get your anemone I.D. From? No way that’s a mag or a LTA. That’s a big bubble tip.

 

[Jdadams]

Watch this video. All long a stringy bubble tips

 

[vetteguy53081]

Where do you get your anemone I.D. From? No way that’s a mag or a LTA. That’s a big bubble tip.

LTA:

 

[vetteguy53081]

@OrionN

 

[Jdadams]

LTA:

Your giving this guy a false I.D. All these pics are bubble tips.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Your giving this guy a false I.D. All these pics are bubble tips.

Look at the foot of the anemone of OP. Not a bta foot. Ive refeerd this to our most knowledgable anemone person. Will take him a bit to reply and verify AND all these pics are from an LTA site
Heres another : https://images.search.yahoo.com/sea...s_sfp&fr2=sb-top-images.search&ei=UTF-8&x=wrt

 

[Jdadams]

Look at the foot of the anemone of OP. Not a bta foot. Ive refeerd this to our most knowledgable anemone person. Will rtake him a bit to reply and verify

I know who he is. You can’t even see the foot. You don’t need to, to know that’s a bubble tip anemone.

 

[offtropic]

Thanks all! At least now I don't feel bad as to why I am confused as well. I can take more pictures for someone of anything specific if that is helpful.

It doesn't matter too much at the end of the day as it has an established home in my tank. I am very curious though as to what it is and how much bigger it might get (it sort of dominates the left third of a 4' 90 gallon tank (you can see the sting marks on the neighboring monticap).

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

It’s a long tentacle bubble tip. Nice nem. Healthy ty for sharing. Hope u get that Id just to know, for sure.

 

[Jdadams]

@offtropic don’t be confused. The video I posted shows the exact same thing you have. Long stringy bubble tips. When bubble tips are happy they don’t move or split. A long tentacle anemone won’t be so high up on the rock or on the rocks at all since they are sand dwellers and it’s not a magnifica because that not what they look like at all. You have a bubble tip

 

[dedragon]

Not bubbletip. Its a long tentacle anemone and likely Heteractis magnifica

its a rose BTA, more likely than anything

 

[reeferguy3303]

Not bubbletip. Its a long tentacle anemone and likely Heteractis magnifica

The confidence in making a wrong ID

 

[Jdadams]

Look at the foot of the anemone of OP. Not a bta foot. Ive refeerd this to our most knowledgable anemone person. Will take him a bit to reply and verify AND all these pics are from an LTA site
Heres another : https://images.search.yahoo.com/sea...s_sfp&fr2=sb-top-images.search&ei=UTF-8&x=wrt

I see you’ve added to your previous reply. The pics you posted earlier are all bubble tips. The ones in the link are LTA. Here’s another video for reference

 

[karamreef117]

100% Bubble tip anemone. Rose for color. No doubt.

 

[Rtaylor]

Where do you get your anemone I.D. From? No way that’s a mag or a LTA. That’s a big bubble tip.

Agree 100%, definitely a bta. If it’s a bta, you should see white striations around the mouth. The vast majority of lta’s have a red foot and all have extremely prominent verracue like this:

I’ve never heard of a mag that color. Also, the pic looks nothing like a mag. If it splits occasionally that also would lead to an Id of bta, mags do split, but very rarely.