Long story and Anemone ID?

triggerfish1976 · 03/29/2007, 10:52 AM

I recently bought an Anemone that was labeled as an Orange/Flame variant RBTA. I had been looking for one of these for a while and one of my LFS told me that they could finally get me one. They ordered it and I went and picked it up as soon as it came in.
After accimilating it for over an hour I placed it in the tank and I immediately noticed that it looked different than any BTA I have ever seen. It had a puckered mouth and its tentacles were hanging away from the mouth almost disc-like. The tentacles were also fairly stringy but had nice round bulbs at the end. I have seen many BTA's and RBTA's wild and AC'ed and I had never seen one look like this even when unhealthy but I was still thinking that it is a BTA just in bad shape from shipping. I decided to try and feed it just to see if it was acting this way because it had not eaten anything in a while so I fed it a small silverside. It grabbed the silverside immediately (tentacles were nice and sticky) and ate it without hesitation. I thought this was a good sign so I have continued to feed it every other day for the last week. The appearance has not changed at all and it also has stayed in one spot since I placed it in the tank, which is odd because all of my BTA's have moved shortly after introduction.

The kicker to this is I was searching online sites for odd ball livestock and I stumbled across a listing for a Orange Sunflower Anemone on Atlantis Aquariums site.
http://www.atlantisaquarium.net/images/invanemsun.jpg
This is the same Anemone that I have and have been thinking is an RBTA.
Does anyone know what this Anemone is? I have searched the internet for more info but cannot find anything. I have already emailed Ming at Atlantis for any info on his Anemone but I also thought I would inquire on RC.

GSMguy · 03/29/2007, 10:54 AM

not an RBTA check out the post your insane anemones thread someone posted a brown one
we think they might be a coralmorphian

triggerfish1976 · 03/29/2007, 03:20 PM

Mine is almost the same colors as the one at ATL but it is a little bleached because I have it under 400 watt MH's.

03/29/2007, 10:52 AM	#1
triggerfish1976 Registered Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Land of Smiles Posts: 2,980	Long story and Anemone ID? I recently bought an Anemone that was labeled as an Orange/Flame variant RBTA. I had been looking for one of these for a while and one of my LFS told me that they could finally get me one. They ordered it and I went and picked it up as soon as it came in. After accimilating it for over an hour I placed it in the tank and I immediately noticed that it looked different than any BTA I have ever seen. It had a puckered mouth and its tentacles were hanging away from the mouth almost disc-like. The tentacles were also fairly stringy but had nice round bulbs at the end. I have seen many BTA's and RBTA's wild and AC'ed and I had never seen one look like this even when unhealthy but I was still thinking that it is a BTA just in bad shape from shipping. I decided to try and feed it just to see if it was acting this way because it had not eaten anything in a while so I fed it a small silverside. It grabbed the silverside immediately (tentacles were nice and sticky) and ate it without hesitation. I thought this was a good sign so I have continued to feed it every other day for the last week. The appearance has not changed at all and it also has stayed in one spot since I placed it in the tank, which is odd because all of my BTA's have moved shortly after introduction. The kicker to this is I was searching online sites for odd ball livestock and I stumbled across a listing for a Orange Sunflower Anemone on Atlantis Aquariums site. http://www.atlantisaquarium.net/images/invanemsun.jpg This is the same Anemone that I have and have been thinking is an RBTA. Does anyone know what this Anemone is? I have searched the internet for more info but cannot find anything. I have already emailed Ming at Atlantis for any info on his Anemone but I also thought I would inquire on RC.

03/29/2007, 10:54 AM	#2
GSMguy Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northern New Mexico Posts: 17,420	not an RBTA check out the post your insane anemones thread someone posted a brown one we think they might be a coralmorphian __________________ Nick. Conehead. Shallow Reef club. Current Tank Info: 48"x27"x14" Envision Acrylic rimless, 6x39w ATi Sunpower, Custom ATB Deluxe Skimmer, 4x tunze nano stream,ATB flowstar 1500, ACJR, Tunze osmolator.

03/29/2007, 03:20 PM	#3
triggerfish1976 Registered Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Land of Smiles Posts: 2,980	Mine is almost the same colors as the one at ATL but it is a little bleached because I have it under 400 watt MH's.