Is this aiptasia?

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Hi I'm not sure if this is aiptasia?
It came from the seller I that I don't trust anymore and it has multiplied.
Please help me identify.
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Umm no aiptasia tend to stay small largest they get is like a quarter maybe a bit bigger but not much. Plus they stay is the pink brown color ranges.

Those look like long tentacle anemone to me. What was it sold as?
 

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Agreed with Untamedrose. I'm looking at old pictures of my 1st aiptasia sighting and they were much smaller with thinner pink bodies.
 

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Did you buy one and now there's that many? I'm rolling with Aiptasia. Regular anemones don't reproduce like that. There's lots of species and I've seen some odd, non-traditional looking ones over the years.
 
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Aiptasia :mad:
 

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Anemones will split if they reproduce. When you see them showing up around your tank over time that's a Aiptasia.
 

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What? The look of these? They've been kind of common in my area, actually. They were hard to get rid of because of their size.
 

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There are a lot of different types of Aiptasia, they do not all look identical to Glass Anemones.
I would be concerned if they are a pest anemone, which they appear to be. If it were my tank I would remove them.
 

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