Puffy Anemone ID Help Please.

[Joy]

I have been unsuccessfully trying to identify this creature. He came to us in a piece of live rock from our LFS. We love him. Just wish I knew what he was. During the day, with all lights on, he is all puffed up like in the photo. Currently about 1.5" in diameter and about a 1" in height. In full darkness he flattens out, and then you see tentacles and a center mouth. We do feed him pieces of shrimp, at which time he flattens out a bit so his tentacle appear to grab the food. At times the "puffy" body mass will also become flat against the rock with no tentacles showing.

 

[Joy]

Night photos

 

[Aquarian]

Flower or rock anemone is my guess. It's hard to tell

 

[Joy]

Thank you Steve for your reply. We will research flower and rock anemones. My 4 year old and I target fed him some liquid coral/larval food tonight. He loved it. Very cool to watch.

 

[Aquarian]

Anemones a a very interesting animal.

 

[salt_for_brains]

There are sooooooo many non-clown hosting anemones that you may or may not get a positive ID but Steve gave you a good place to start.

 

[ReeferRob]

That first picture looks like a Cynarina, but the rest look like an anemone.