Anemone ID help!

[Kalic]

No big deal...it's my husband that's military tho.

[Ninong]

No big deal...it's my husband that's military tho.

Tell him we all said "Thank you!"

[zhenya]

Kalic,

I hope you find this link interesting...
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If you scroll down the page a little you'll find many interesting photos of various anemones found in Pacific ocean, and some description perhaps can help you to identify yours.

Looking at your images on photobucket it makes me think of the H.crispa that I bought at the store some years ago. It looked very similar to yours.
Later on it looked like this and here it is in the bucket when I removed it.
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Why DarthClownfish called it unhealthy? I think the reason he sighted is that your anemone is bleached. With time it should regain it's zooxanthellae, if provided with optimum conditions and feedings on a regular basis. Mine took close to a year to regain it;s coloration of light tan color with purple tips. I think I gave it away in 05. It grew to monstrous size...

[DarthClownfish]

Don't be so touchy, I was just joking.

I'm not as touchy as you think, but it really doesn't read at all like a joke

[DarthClownfish]

Kalic,
Why DarthClownfish called it unhealthy? I think the reason he sighted is that your anemone is bleached. With time it should regain it's zooxanthellae, if provided with optimum conditions and feedings on a regular basis. Mine took close to a year to regain it;s coloration of light tan color with purple tips. I think I gave it away in 05. It grew to monstrous size...

Yep. If it is a sebae, the tentacles are way too short. If it is another species, it is very white and bleached. Tentacles should never be white, except maybe on ritteris and sebaes but that's an entirely different discussion. You can absolutely nurse them back, but go into this with full knowledge

[Ninong]

I'm not as touchy as you think, but it really doesn't read at all like a joke

I guess I shouldn't have pointed out that the particular Latin version of Occam's razor that you attributed to William of Ockham was composed sometime in the 19th century. It can be found nowhere in his writings. This is not uncommon. Many of the famous quotations that are attributed to our country's founding fathers were never uttered by them but were invented by their biographers decades later.

William of Ockham is credited as being the originator of that proposition even though he was simply agreeing with Aristotle and Aquinas. If they wanted to give him credit, they should have stuck with what he acutally did write instead of translating English into Latin to make it look more authentic.

Sometimes I'm too nitpicky and for that, I apologize.

[Ninong]

Kalic,

We aren't going to be able to say that it is H. crispa or any of the ten clownfish-hosting sea anemones (except for E. quadricolor) if you are sure that it doesn't have verrucae on its column.

To be H. crispa, it must have "prominent adhesive verrucae" all the way up to the top of the column. That's an absolute must. We can completely forget about the appearance or length of the tentacles if the adhesive verrucae are lacking.

Attached are pics of what the verrucae on the column look like as well as what the tentacles look like on a mature, healthy H. crispa.

[Kalic]

Thanks for all of your help. I think I'm just going to continue to take good care of the anemone and hope for the best. To be honest, I think it could be a sebae and it just needs good taking care of to get it's tips and color back.