Another Anemone ID

[orreefkeeper]

I bought this as a “LTA”. Can anyone help me with a more specific identification? My Ocellaris clowns don’t care about it but the anemone crab loves it!

 

[Dytrix]

sorry dont know the type but that looks really cool

 

[orreefkeeper]

Oh it’s a cool nem for sure! It’s huge!! This is the 4th home it’s made in the tank. *shurg*

 

[Dytrix]

nems love to move haha, i was lucky mine found its spot in a couple days of putting it in, it did however make me rearrange my tank as it literally tried to squish itself between rocks lol

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

What more do you want than lta?
Lol
D

 

[hsn izd]

it looks kinda like long tentacle carpet anemone
or sand anemone
but im not sure

 

[James M]

It’s long tentacle anemone

 

[Birdbrains?]

Your anemone and crab pair looks gorgeous.

The anemone is a Macrodactyla doreensis, also known as corkscrew anemone or redfoot/redbased anemone. These stripy variants are sometimes called peppermint stick lta.

Macrodactylas are my absolute favourite anemones and fortunately the Polymnus I keep also loves them.

 

[Terry Le]

I bought this as a “LTA”. Can anyone help me with a more specific identification? My Ocellaris clowns don’t care about it but the anemone crab loves it!

Your clownfish is not the type to host LTA but Clarkii Clownfish will

 

[hsn izd]

Your clownfish is not the type to host LTA but Clarkii Clownfish will

yeah mostly clarkis do that
me myself i take care of 7 clowns and i don't have enough bta s so two of them host in my sand lta
the thing i was wondering is that they didn't host my carpet anemone but they hosted the sand anemone