Yellow anenome ID?

[Nemo's Dada]

I saw a small, maybe 1-2 inch diameter, yellow anenome with a red foot at the LFS and wondered if anyone knew what kind it was? I asked the staff at the LFS and they said "it's a yellow form of anenome". Ummmmm...ok.

I think it may be a carpet but wasn't sure if they came in yellow colors.

Thanks.

Bill

[offsprg0]

i have the exact one you are talking about apparently some of the big importers got a bunch of these guys ion becuase i see them in almost every pet store in my area. i think they migh be a color morph of h. aurora. here's a link to my thread on nano-reef.com


http://nano-reef.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56371&highlight=h.aurora

[Nemo's Dada]

Hey offsprg,

Thanks for the ID. It's so small right now that I can't tell if it has bands around the tentacles. The LFS had 3 other anenomes that definitely looked like the beaded anenomes in your post on the other forum. They also had an LTA and what looked like a sebae. The clerk kept calling the sebae a BTA. He also called another one a "magnificant". Geez, these guys sit there all day with like 20 books behind them and none of them are trying to ID any of their livestock!

I'm going to go back tomorrow and take another look.

[Large Polyp Dave]

It's an H. Malu

[ViPeR_930]

I have one, always thought it was an H malu.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/ViPeR_930/FlameSabaeSmall.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/ViPeR_930/FlameSabaeMacroSmall.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/ViPeR_930/FlameSebaeUnderSmall.jpg

[Amphiprion]

None of the host anemones naturally occur with this yellow color. Some Cerianthids do, but these are dyed with an antibiotic (can someone remember what it is-stuff stains like crazy-in the penicillin group). In all honesty, the thread here looks like H. malu, while the other at nano looks like H. aurora.

[Nemo's Dada]

I went back to the LFS and it looks more like the h. malu. The tentacles did not have the bubbles that the h. aurora has. Isn't the malu and the crispa also known as sebae?