Anyone Keeping Magnificents?

Ah, I see the JK on your first post now. I thought you really believed the pic was a BTA. I know mine are mags in these pics--unlike on that other post from yesterday with the pics that kinda look BTAesque and kinda magnficantesque.
 
LOL, but seriously, those are true perculas, not ocellaris.

Wait, what were we talking about? :D

Ok, one of my little guys and what I hope he grows into
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I sometimes wish they were true percs, but they are the nicest orange I've seen in ocellaris (a really deep reddish orange). Both of them are tankbred. They spawn all the time, and the eggs always hatch, but by the next day there is no sign of a single baby.
 
Garygb- If you're ever in a position to sell one, or more of you magnificas, please let me know. I've been searching for a healthy one for many years now. I just cleaned out my 240 cube of all but a few soft corals and 4 rose BTAs to make room for a nice show magnifica. In fact, if I can find a healthy specimen, I will get rid of everything else and let it have the full tank all to itself. A small colony of baby captive bred (here locally in KC!) ocellaris will call it home!
Please keep me in mind. Your's are beautiful!
Thanks for sharing the pics.
Sean
 
Thanx for all the pics! Wow, I read on wet web media that magnificents need 400w M.H. to survive. Thats awesome that they thrive under T5.
 
Thank you Sean, I will certainly keep you in mind if I decide to sell any of these. Finding a healthy one, like you mentioned, is the key. Maybe your lfs could special order one for you, if not in your town then maybe you could contact a good fish shop in a larger city and have them special order it, with the understanding that you only will take it if it has no tears on the base and isn't bleached. I would say even if it was bleached it could recover, but a tear on the base is very iffy.
 
Hi Gary, and thanks for keeping me in mind!
A few of our better local fish stores do get some magnifica in from time to time, unfortunately, they are typically the unattractive brown base/dark tentacle coloration and they almost never come in looking good. I've attempted about a dozen over the past 2 years and had marginal success with only two of them. I managed to keep each of those about 8 to 10 months before the slowly melted away. Very depressing. The one in my avatar lived about 10 months. I enjoyed it more than anything in my tank!
I'm so looking forward to a nice blue base specimen and maybe pairing it up with one of the more rare red based specimens some day as well. That would be my dream tank, a nice blue base and red base sitting on a rock column dead center of my tank!
Again, I am very jealous of your magnifica success! Great job and do please keep me in mind ;)
 
You mentioned that the ones in your store are the "brown base/dark tentacle" coloration. The tentacles might change with your aquarium lighting. I recall mine did. I wonder why they lasted 8-10 months and then died? I think they like full strength seawater (1.026-1.027) and 80-82F.
 
Happyclam, I've read about them needing really strong MH too. Mine have done better under PC's and now T-5's than they did when they were under MH. I would say they lots of light, but I think T-5 HO is ideal.
 
In the wild they are located at a pretty wide range of depths. It is probable that some do better in high light and others in low just because of differences in the individual anemone.

For a new anemone, without knowing at what depth or light conditions the anemone was collected, you are gambling by going with lower lighting until the anemone shows that it does ok (or even better in gary's case).

In other words, just because one magnifica does better in lower light doesn't mean that they all will do better and it doesn't even mean that they all can survive in lower lighting.

Am I making sense?
 
Yup, Out of all of the baby anemones produced in the wild, some will be better suited for high light and some will do better in low. The ones which settle in a place that doesn't fit their genes will not survive. When we collect and ship the anemones we don't get any of the info about what that specific anemone needed in the wild.

So in the end, your best bet is to go with what the species needs in general and then adjust to the anemone if you need to.
 
I have had my H. Magnifica for almost 4 years. Under 2 400w mh, hosting 3 occy's:1 b&w and 2 norms
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this one taken last month after the move from Michigan to North Carolina
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Beautiful Irish. I'm glad it did so well with the move. If I move, I'm going to be writing you to find out what you did to safely get your mag from MI to NC.
 
thank you, it is my most favorite in my reef. The trip was tough but for the most part successful.


I would love to see more photos posted of other reefers H.M.'s hence the purpose of this thread.
 
shutiny has been propagating mags in her giant outdoor reef.


she has so many i think she is trying to get rid of some, sonofgaladrial it might be worth PMing her about.
 
hhmmm.....if she is looking for new homes, I would be interested in another.... I followed her thread, she has an incredible system!
 
she had a for sale thread in the propagated corals for sale forum a month or so ago.

not advertising for her, i just know availability on these guys is limited and most are straight from the wild.
 
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