Need 2nd opinion on hitchhiker anemone ID

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fballguy

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I am about 99% certain it is not aiptasia. It looks like a rock flower anemone to me. Thoughts?


Sorry about the pics being a little fuzzy. My camera's automatic focus seems to always focus on everything around what I want it to focus on.
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Tough to say. I agree that it doesn't look like aiptasia in those pics. It looks like a bleached mojano or possibly a ball anemone. Any others around it?
 

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I know nothing about anemones but you should be able to adjust where your camera focuses. Sometimes there's a center focus and a multi-focus or side focus, you might just need to change that settings. Or it's focussing on the glass instead of inside, you might need to switch it to manual focus. Not much help for you ID hopefully still some help.
 

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After playing with the settings on my camera, this is what I came up with. Note how the tentacles taper to a sharp tip. From what I can find via google image search, majano anemones have more of a rounded tip on their tentacles. From what I can tell, this is the only 1 of this particular type of anemone in my tank. I do have 4 ball anemones on 2 separate rocks, and this anemone is definetly not one of them. I turned the rock so the anemone is facing outward and recieving some light, hopefully this will help it gain some color and make it easier to identify.



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greech

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Actually starting to think that is a fungia. But you are right, it does have the tentacles of a rock flower nem and it clearly looks to have a foot in the 1st pics. What does it do if you touch it?
 
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