[karun]

The picture looks a lot like my bubble tip. Mine has more tentacles and is larger but the colour and shape of the tentacle is very similar.

Karun

[RudeBoy]

I'm going to agree with Karun and Callie... this anemone was a hitchhiker on a piece of LR that I bought almost 2 months ago. I asked my LFS what it was and they said it was a BTA. I couldn't tell because it hadn't opened up since I had it. It moved itself from the front of my tank to the back because it wasn't accustomed to my lighting. Since I've been feeding it (along with my smaller clownfish) it has opened more and more everyday. Being a novice to the hobby, I doubted my LFS when they tried to convince me that it was a BTA. Now that I have good photos of it, I'm getting some good responses from folks here at Reefland. THANKS!

[ravenmore]

It's possible it's a BTA....if it grows bigger than it's current size you'll know for sure. A lot of rock anemones can have bulb tips like this also, though.

Also, wanted to add some comments to my response to Petpoor. I did a little more digging and asks some questions about zoox and feeding of anemones.

Basically, zooxanthellea provides energy for the short tem (I believe in the form of sugars...according to Dr. Shimek). Zoox does not provide protien, nitrogen, and other nutrients for the animal to grow, reproduce, or heal itself from injury. (again, this info was courtesy of Dr. Shimek). Also, the zooxanthellea itself has to reproduce and grow within the host. It requires protiens and nitrogens FROM THE HOST to accomplish this. SOOOOOOOOOO, bottom line, if you don't feed your anemone and other zooxanthellate animals, they WILL likely starve to death over a period of time.

Side note: Dr. Shimek has a book out about anemones that sounds pretty good. I think it's available at Amazon.

hth
-Mike

[SurfStone]

I have a carpet anemone shade is a maroon purple has lived for 6 years in a 40 gallon tank with 1 40 watt bulb over it. I feed it every day 3 silversides it is huge probably 23" around takes up half of tank it lighting may not have to do with their survival as much as nutrition IMO the silversides I give it are soaked in garlic guard, zoe, and zoecon over night. I also have a lot of flow in my tank the anemone has never moved since I purchased it. I also have a very deep sand bed and it 7-8" it has burried its foot all the way to the bottom pain of glass to wear I can see it its foot is about 15" it is a beast. Never has ate any fish infact I have a mated pair of ocellaris clowns living inside it that also feed it when i feed them so it gets plenty of food. I feed it extra inorder to make up for lake of light and it has worked for 6 years. it may just a hardy anemone. water conditions are perfect. ph at 8.2 in the morning and at 8.3 at night nh3/nh4 0 no2 0, no3 0, phosphate 0, I run a emperor 400 for filter and seaclone hang-on the back skimmer, change 4 gallons of water a week. I also do not mess with it I leave it alone only the clowns touch it. I think that people messing with their anemones may have something to do with them dieing I use a feeding stick to feed the silversides, never my hand, other live stock include 2 yellow tail damsels and 2 convict wormfish, 1 cb shrimp, and asst snails and hermit crabs, I also have some tonga fuzzy mushrooms about 4 inches from anemone at its most stretched out point. other than that I think it is purchasing a healthy anemone in the first place. Make sure it has plankton inside it brown appearances are good so are darker ones. a bleached anemone is a sick anemone, you can really tell the difference in seabaes when they are healthy they are brown in appearance the white ones at most lfs are bleached and sick. it is harder to tell in other species but generally if the look dark on the inside they are healthy you can really see the difference once you know what to look for.