Baby anemone ID

[Rtaylor]

Just noticed this baby anemone in my nem tank. It was mostly closed with tips of tentacles poking out when I first noticed it. Then of course I messed with it, it completely closed up and it must know I’m trying to get a pic, cuz it hasn’t opened up at all in an hour. It’s currently about the size of a pencil eraser closed up. Anyway, my best guess would be rfa based on it closed up. In the tank there are rfa’s, h.crispa, h.malu, Haddoni, and lta’s. Once it opens up I’ll add pics. What do y’all think?

 

[SudzFD]

Can’t tell from the pic. But I expected Aiptasia when I came to the thread and it’s not that! So that’s good. Update a pick opened up if you can.

 

[Rtaylor]

Can’t tell from the pic. But I expected Aiptasia when I came to the thread and it’s not that! So that’s good. Update a pick opened up if you can.

I suspect it might not tonight since lights went out. I’ll update tomorrow hopefully.

 

[Rtaylor]

Still haven’t gotten a pic totally opened up, here you can see tentacles some…looks less like an rfa to me, but probably still not good enough pics for id. I’ll try again later

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Huh! This is a tough one. It almost looks like a baby LTA or Malu because of the defined verrucae and incurved tentacles! @Eagle_Steve @OrionN @Nemguy123 Yall have any thoughts?

 

[Rtaylor]

Ok, finally got some better pics. Currently it doesn’t fluoresce at all under blues. Just a pink color with the spots on the column… and maybe faint striping on some of the tentacles? I should mention it could possibly be a bta too as I moved a few rocks around and my other tank does have bta’s. The verracue makes me think that unlikely however.

 

[Rtaylor]

Idk….now I’m leaning more towards lta? Has anyone ever found a baby lta in their tank?

 

[Rtaylor]

Idk….now I’m leaning more towards lta? Has anyone ever found a baby lta in their tank?

 

[Nemguy123]

Interesting! I honestly couldn’t tell from the pics

 

[Rtaylor]

Probably won’t help, but here are a few more pics. I do have magnificas in my other tank as well, so I suppose that’s a possibility as well (though it seems unlikely). I guess I’ll just need to be patient and wait to see what it grows into.

 

[DeniseAndy]

So tiny. Maybe as it grows it will be easier to identify.

 

[Taylor t]

Wow that’s awesome!

 

[Duncan62]

Still haven’t gotten a pic totally opened up, here you can see tentacles some…looks less like an rfa to me, but probably still not good enough pics for id. I’ll try again later

Even tiny rfa are symmetrical. Maybe a long tentacles. It's cool either way

 

[Rtaylor]

A few updated pics, don’t mind the color, blue lights are on, it’s still pink in color. I know it’s not much different, but I’ll try to post updated pics every couple of weeks. Thinking lta or maybe h.aurora?

 

[Chrisv.]

Very cool, whatever it is. I too expected to see an aiptasia when I clicked the thread...

 

[Duncan62]

Very cool, whatever it is. I too expected to see an aiptasia when I clicked the thread...

How big will it get? Very cool.

 

[Rtaylor]

How big will it get? Very cool.

Hard to say since I’m not sure what it is

 

[Rtaylor]

Updated pics. It’s moved to the sand and will fully bury itself in the sand if disturbed too much

 

[Duncan62]

Updated pics. It’s moved to the sand and will fully bury itself in the sand if disturbed too much

Any positive id? Majano maybe. Hope it grows up to be beautiful.

 

[Rtaylor]

Any positive id? Majano maybe. Hope it grows up to be beautiful.

No, not yet. Pretty sure it’s not majano.