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Oceanarium

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Certainly more neutral than a fire anemone. They are like this one pictured on the left A. Pic B is after it chucked up its sticky guts. :p


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Oceanarium

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That looks very much like it best pic I can find is one in sand but you get the gist.
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They are more neutral than a fire nem and a lot more tank friendly, not sure i want to hug one.

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Found a picture that looks exactly the same as the ones I have - they're labelled fire anemones... One is stuck in rock work and another is in a cup of sand. Either way they're still yours :)
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There is another animal too that looks very similar, cant remember the name off hand other than it starts with an s :p to google some pics and away at the beach shack so no access to the reference books. When i get back will get something. Best way to tell is to see what it looks like closed, or better yet pull out a rock and investigate. I still thing your pic looks more like the holuthrian and if you google hells fire anemone most pics are of the Actinodendron family and live in the sand.

The nem should go down into the rock and disappear.

Close inspection you should be able to see a small Cuc for the holuthrian,

The other thing starting with s looks like it lives in a scrotum :p

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Do you mean sea apple? @Oceanarium At night the tentacles should be out and it will be catching microorganisms then the tentacles will retract to feed the mouth if it is a sea apple/holuthrian @holly
 

Oceanarium

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There are cucumbers that feed just like sea apples.... and yes they lick their lips if food is in the water. :)

Some like the pic i last put up live in the sand others will also live on rocks and can be quite small, just like Michelle's diagram and the other pic.
 

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When I found it at the bottom of the box it was inside a fleshy scrotum sac thing, and then expanded out slowly like an anemone. The one on the rock didn't exist to my eyes until the morning after the rock went into the tank... I haven't had a chance to peek after lights out but will tonight and get a pic :D Someone can poke it today for shits perhaps... if i ply them with enough beer.
 

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132 pound scrotum, huh?
would that qualify as a disability?
you wouldn't qualify for a lot of jobs.
you couldn't be, say, an air steward.
or play a cello.
I don't think they'd let you anywhere near a pool or gym either.
You MIGHT get a job in the 'fucking freaks' genre of the porn industry.
You could get a job as Santa fairly easily, I would think
Tuck it up under your belt and VOILA! instant Santa belly....

This is waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy off topic now.
Sorry, @holly
 

Oceanarium

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I am intrepidly reading along thinking your leading to something else..... Not a santa belly a santa sac :p

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I am intrepidly reading along thinking your leading to something else..... Not a santa belly a santa sac :p

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oh great....fucking great!!!
Now i have a mental image of a great fat jolly Santa arriving down the chimney, throwing his bulging red sack from over his shoulder and it doesn't land on the ground beside the tree but just swings back and forth between his legs...*gag*
 

MichelleShocked

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I don't know, if the plane was going down I know where I'd be going to brace for impact!
yeah...but he wouldn't fit down the aisles...
and I know because i once spent 36 hours on a China Air flight and observed that A) the air hostesses were all that thin, you could've snapped one if you sneezed on her, B) that they probably had a minimum hip diameter measurement in the job application forms and C) that by employing that minimum measurement, they were probably able to fit in an extra row of seats across-ways.