Let's ID the Petco Anemone

Pretty sure it’s not h.crispa, they have a leathery foot with prominent verracue. Also I’ve never seen a sebae that fluoresces yellow/greenish like that , they can be yellowish in color. But it’s not really a fluorescent yellow. This foot looks smooth with no spots (although sometimes it’s hard to see the spots in pics if they are similar color as the foot).
I got a picture of its foot. As you can see there are a couple spots near the base. According to Google, BTA’s don’t have verrucae, however several a others types of anemones do. Although they have them going most of the way up and down.
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I got a picture of its foot. As you can see there are a couple spots near the base. According to Google, BTA’s don’t have verrucae, however several a others types of anemones do. Although they have them going most of the way up and down. Same thing with h.crispa, the verracue are under the oral disc.
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Correct, I meant if you see verracue it is a mag not a bta. The spots on a mag are under the oral disc (at the very top of the foot) not near the bottom of the foot. That is probably just some color variation and not verracue.
 
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Photos of one of the other “Mags” at Petco today. The third was not looking good at all, deflated.

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Photos of one of the other “Mags” at Petco today. The third was not looking good at all, deflated.

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I’m so glad you went, I was thinking about running over at lunch tomorrow to see how the others were looking. You saved me a trip.

i see there’s a clown in there, was the anemone hosting it?
 
I think it was just hiding, I didn’t see it leave that spot.

The staff was aggressively scrubbing/cleaning the tanks in the next rack over and I couldn’t tell whether they had done this rack too but I would assume so. Not hard to believe things were stressed.
 

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