$200 5" sebae anemone?

[Big E]

Here's a few quick photos I just shot showing the sparse tentacles common to H.Malu. The underside is the same as that photo Marc said to click on.

It looks kinda weird shaped cause it forms itself around the plastic tub it's in.

My Malu also has the horizontal stripes on some of the tentacles........they are white on the yellow tips, but it's hard to see them in these pics.............there aren't as many as on kimsie's.

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[marc price]

...so are you confirming a different color of the upper column due to the presents of zooxanthellae of your malu?
i can see little protruded white banding like dots on the tentacles. F.&Allen made no note of that but your pics and kim's confirm the poss.
what diameter is the oral disc and what length(s) are the tentacles?

 

[Shawn D]

Kim, have you fed yours yet?

 

[marc price]

Shawn, give it time to settle in first. it looks healthy so if it's dug in and situated try a pencil erasure size morsel. if it rejects it remove the food and try again tomorrow or the next day. don't rush it or be discouraged if it doesn't eat within a the first week or two. best to let them acclimate to the new environment first.

 

[marc price]

kim the more i look at your photos vs. liveAquaria's the more i like it. i probably would've skipped the org. post and jumped if divers den provided an alternative more daylight photo. i love how flexed the oral disc lays too.

 

[Big E]

so are you confirming a different color of the upper column due to the presents of zooxanthellae of your malu?

Mine is all white

what diameter is the oral disc and what length(s) are the tentacles?

The oral disc has always seemed small to me in reference to overall size of the nem. It's a small tight slot maybe 3/8". The only time I've ever seen it protrude is when it takes in food.

Some tentacles are an inch long but they seemed to have grown with the nems overall growth so I'm not sure tentacle length is of much importance for id purposes.

 

[Shawn D]

thanks marc, I wont try feeding for atleast a couple more days

 

[kimsie]

Hi guys! Sorry I didn't check in over the weekend. The anemone is still doing great and is continuing to settle in. It still hasn't moved from the same spot.

Shawn - I haven't fed mine yet - I'm waiting for about a week for it to settle in. Did you take new pics of yours yet?

Big E - Someone please correct me if I'm wrong - but I was under the impression that the oral disk size referred to the entire portion of the anemone where tentacles lay - not just the actual 'mouth'.

Marc - I see what you're saying about the picture and the upper column color. In that pic it looks darker than the rest of the column. Do you think that picture could have been deceiving? I ask because from that angle it almost appears that the color they are describing is more of an appearance of color due to the transparency of that shot - meaning the color of the oral disk is seeming to darken the upper column. Sometimes when I look through my anemones - the upper portion of the column (the part underneath the oral disk) looks darker than the rest because the color of the oral disk (zooanthele) is almost shadowing it. Does that make sense? What are your thoughts on this?

 

[Shawn D]

Mine hasn't moved either, and I am hoping that he likes the spot he is in now as it adds a ton of life to that side of the tank

 

[marc price]

yes kim it does make sense. i often thought the same when observing my sebaes. the contrast in that picture is bad, a good % overexposed but i still see a darker color slightly before it begins to flare outward. somewhat rules out shading or translucency of the oral disc (which is the whole top surface from the mouth outward to the perimeter).
will be interesting to hear from "PHENDER" on the sbbject...

 

[Been_There8]

Dude, that anemone looks like its made out of worms!