Anenome identification

Anthonytaylor · Mar 13, 2023

Hello folks, I've searched through here and can't find a similar one but. I bought this lil chap on ebay and its been very happy munching shrimp but any idea on the ID of the thing and is it safe for a reef tank (soft corals, goby, clowns & CUC). What arrived is not like the pictures on ebay and he's not coming forward with a name just its sourced in Malta.
Many thanks folks all help appreciated.

blaxsun · Mar 14, 2023

What was it sold to you as? (do you have the picture of what it was advertised at?)

yanni · Mar 14, 2023

Unsure on the species, but looks awesome haha

KyRo · Mar 14, 2023

It looks somewhat like a Condy Anemone I used to have. It definitely was NOT for my tank and it was the biggest pain to remove

Anthonytaylor · Mar 16, 2023

blaxsun said:
What was it sold to you as? (do you have the picture of what it was advertised at?)

They just sold it as a purple tipped anemone on ebay. Was £16 including postage they picture they had looked like a condy but some of the bad feedback is that its a snakelock anenome.

Anthonytaylor · Mar 16, 2023

KyRo said:
It looks somewhat like a Condy Anemone I used to have. It definitely was NOT for my tank and it was the biggest pain to remove

It tried to get into the goby cave so I put a glove on and moved it, it was near impossible to get it off my finger. Did yours eat anything it shouldn't have?

KyRo · Mar 16, 2023

Anthonytaylor said:
It tried to get into the goby cave so I put a glove on and moved it, it was near impossible to get it off my finger. Did yours eat anything it shouldn't have?

It didn't, it latched itself onto my rock and grew SO FAST. It basically took over half of my tank within a couple months, I couldn't really put much else in there

Anthonytaylor · Mar 16, 2023

Right I'll remember this warning and if it gets big it's going in its own tank haha. Its like watching an alien eat.

blaxsun · Mar 17, 2023

I'm not sure if it's a condy. This is the condy anemone I have in my tank. You can tell the sifference right away just by the color (kind of a translucent blue that changes to purple during the day). They're also a lot "stickier" than regular anemones.