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Hey guys

Can someone tell me what kind of anemone is this please ?
And what proper care would be placement/lighting/flow/feeding wise

Might not be very clear but tentacles are white/blue and the tip is yellow

Thanks
 

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Dont know if this helps

Sorry pictures with phone not great
 

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With the long tentacles and no dot on the end it's not a sebae. A couple pictures look like it has a bright red foot, and the oral disk from what I can see looks like a long tentacle anemone.
 
Hey guys

Can someone tell me what kind of anemone is this please ?
And what proper care would be placement/lighting/flow/feeding wise

Might not be very clear but tentacles are white/blue and the tip is yellow

Thanks

Tips are yellow. Reason I though sebae.
 
Yes the foot is definitly red

Assuming its a long tentacles anemone

what proper care would be placement/lighting/flow/feeding wise ?

Thanks
 
Tips are yellow. Reason I though sebae.

Sebae have yellow tentacles with a purple dot at the end. Except for the few that are truly purple. There are some that are, unfortunately, dyed by unscrupulous dealers.
 
Yes the foot is definitly red

Assuming its a long tentacles anemone

what proper care would be placement/lighting/flow/feeding wise ?

Thanks

It will place itself. There's not much you can do about that with an anemone. You just need to provide stable temp, salinity, and zero nitrates.
Regular water changes to keep up calcium and other nutrients are important as well.

It will need a LOT of light, and at least enough flow to make the tentacles gently sway. Powerheads can be dangerous though as they can suck in a wandering anemone.

The best thing you can do is research for yourself before you buy such delicate animals, and make sure you know what you are getting before you bring it home. An anemone in its death throes can kill everything in you tank if you're not careful.
 
I would say long tentacle too, but agree with Faye, it does look dyed. Can you get a good daylight pic without the blue lights?
 
I took some more pics dont know if it helps

basicly i think i got hustled by my LFS lolol
I had never owned a anemone before and when i saw this one i said to myself "wow finally a anemone that aint pink or green" i like it so i asked the lady at the LFS and she said it just came in and it was a very rare color wich is (blue/whitish with a lil yellow at the tip) so i bought it .... I might of fell for a dyed anemone after reading the post here :(

Anyways i just want to know do i have to burry his red foot all the way in the sand so it touches the glass ?? Or will he find a confortable spot on his own without my help ? And also id like to know if he dyed will he ever regain his original color with time ??

Thanks
 

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Let him bury it himself. Is all your lighting so blue? Just asking because it seems super blue if those are daytime lights. It does look like a LT but the oral disk looks speckled which is weird. If it is dyed, the dye will wear off but it's harder to tell if he's bleached. Just like what was already said, keep your parameters in check and hopefully he'll be fine.
 
The blue color of your lights does make it harder to tell what us going on with your anemone. While it is nice to have some actinic light to make you inverts shine, and it does help if you have a deeper tank, it is important to have good, white light even for your photosynthetic animals. Most of the stuff we are keeping isn't really from the depths where they only get the blue wavelengths. If you look at the typical coral reef it is still very white light.

The blue/yellow color of this LTA is likely due to some amount of bleaching. If you give it good water, plenty of light and LEAVE IT ALONE it will probably recover its zooanthellae and color back up. It may actually be a differently colored individual. In which case you are lucky because they are rare among LTAs.

It actually looks pretty happy for a newly introduced anemone. It is relaxed, and has accepted the porcelain crab. The oral disk, that shows in the pictures is the normal striped pattern. I think that you will find that it will expand more as it settles in. You can feed it a small chunk of fresh fish or shrimp. That is if you can get it past the crab. Don't feed it more than once a week. The process of digesting solid food can actually take energy away from a stressed or bleached anemone.
 
Oh that's a crab in the middle! Haha never mind. Sorry. I thought it was the coloring of the nem. Yeah I def think its an LT. Good luck with him!
 
Yeah its a anemone crab that came with it when i bought it.. Thanks everyone for the replies hopefuly everything goes well and it regains color
 
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