Nem ID Please?

[SE7ƎN]

I’m thinking this is a Long Tentacle Anemone, but unsure. Can someone help confirm this or identify?

I got it bleached like this 3 months ago in rough shape, however, it’s been doing good ever since (Closed mouth, foot attached to the bottom of 3.5 - 4 inches of sand, very sticky compared to my other BTA’s, and always eating/accepting food). Do they usually get their colors back?

TIA!

 

[fishguy242]

@Eagle_Steve ?

 

[OrionN]

That is not a BTA for sure. What it is, is hard to tell. It looks tiny. I guess there are tiny LTA. More pictures of the foot and column is needed to be sure. If you don't want to dig him up then keep feeding him for a few months and retake the picture. Detail picture of the mouth may help ID him.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

That is not a BTA for sure. What it is, is hard to tell. It looks tiny. I guess there are tiny LTA. More pictures of the foot and column is needed to be sure. If you don't want to dig him up then keep feeding him for a few months and retake the picture. Detail picture of the mouth may help ID him.

This right here. Need pic of foot and column. Or if you remember, LTA will look like the below pic for the foot and column.

Pic from google. Foot isn’t always red.

 

[SE7ƎN]

Thanks @OrionN. Yeah, definitey not a BTA. It likes the sand. It’s small, but can easily stretch to 5 inches (likes to that when I turn off the flow - Might have become a Pavlovian response to feeding time). Next time I do sand maintance, I will take a picture. A few times I did this though, his foot is planted to the bottom and he stays rigid while I’m vacuuming the sand and re-doing his little sand-area. You can see his foot attached the bottom of one the pictures below.

 

[SE7ƎN]

This right here. Need pic of foot and column. Or if you remember, LTA will look like the below pic for the foot and column.

Pic from google. Foot isn’t always red.

Thanks @Eagle_Steve. The column and foot looks just like that picture you uploaded, just not as reddish/orange, but orange. The top is completey bleached and much smaller, but the column and foot looks identical. Hopefully he gets his color back in time.

 

[Poof No Eyebrows]

Behavior sounds like an lta. They like deep sand. Does it have any white striping?

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Thanks @Eagle_Steve. The column and foot looks just like that picture you uploaded, just not as reddish/orange, but orange. The top is completey bleached and much smaller, but the column and foot looks identical. Hopefully he gets his color back in time.

With proper care they will. I have 3 bleached ones I am bringing back to life, so to speak. LTA take a little time, but small bits of mysis here and there help. If it stays looking healthy, minus being bleached, zoo transplants can help. Sound cruel, but I use frogspawn for doing that. Being as frogspawn will pop a tip off easily if pinched, I do that and then feed that to the nem with a piece of mysis. The nem will not digest the zoo and it will slowly repopulate inside the nem.

@OrionN has also done zoo transplants as well.

 

[SE7ƎN]

Behavior sounds like an lta. They like deep sand. Does it have any white striping?

Thanks @Poof No Eyebrows. I have him in 4-5 inches of sand and he never moves from that spot. No white spots. Completey bleached white since I got him back 3 months ago. Hoping to get him back to health and see what it really looks like!