Rainbow Long Tentacle Anemone
A variant of Long tentacle anemone (Macrodactyla doreensis)
Representative Long tentacle anemonephoto — a dedicated image of this exact morph isn't available yet.
A premium wild color morph with a multi-colored oral disc blending greens, purples, pinks and oranges, and tentacles that can show contrasting tips. The combination of disc coloration and the orange foot drives the demand.
📜 Backstory
"Rainbow" LTAs are exceptional wild-collected individuals selected and graded up by importers and frag vendors for their unusual disc coloration; there is no single named mother lineage and the term is a trade descriptor rather than a clonal line. Because Macrodactyla doreensis does not split readily in captivity, each rainbow specimen is essentially a one-off wild piece, which is why colored examples command a steep premium over the common green form. Origin of any given piece is debated and is best treated as wild import rather than aquacultured.
Keeper tips for this variant
Light it under moderate PAR (around 100-150) so its zooxanthellae stay colorful without bleaching, and keep it in a deep sand bed away from high-flow returns.