Are they good for the baby anemone?

[shutiny]

I am wondering, are they doing damages to the baby "mergaintea"? Tehy do feed the anemone at times.
They are not rough, but way too big, I think.

<img src="http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r111/shutiny/anemones067.jpg">

 

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One more:
<img src="http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r111/shutiny/anemones069.jpg">

 

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One more:
<img src="http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r111/shutiny/anemones069.jpg">

 

[Bones18]

I think that they are to big....get them a larger host nem.

But def keep that one ...where did you find it?

 

[GSMguy]

she has lots of nems i think they just chose that one
that nem is a beauty

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10237747#post10237747 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bones18
I think that they are to big....get them a larger host nem.

But def keep that one ...where did you find it?

I am not at in Cali but may do that when I get home. They won't go to any other anemones and they are a happy family I didn't want to break it up.
Thanks.

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10237835#post10237835 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GSMguy
she has lots of nems i think they just chose that one
that nem is a beauty

Thanks, you are right.

 

[Slakker]

Cutest. Picture. Ever.

No one knows your nem like you do...I don't know if I'd separate them from their nem unless the anemone started looking stressed. I also have no experience with anemones or Polymnus clowns...so grain of salt is probably in order here.

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10240104#post10240104 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
Cutest. Picture. Ever.

No one knows your nem like you do...I don't know if I'd separate them from their nem unless the anemone started looking stressed. I also have no experience with anemones or Polymnus clowns...so grain of salt is probably in order here.

Thanks for your input. The anemone was a little distressed early this morning.

I got home early this am and all three of them were on top of the poor little anemone. I took a specimen container and scooped up the two large ones and transplanted them into the main display tank.

The anemone is looking much larger and is assuming a relax, more of a mertensii posture now the large clowns are gone.
It has open up to almost 2.5" across. Before it was only 1.5-2".

The sad part is the two large ones are now being chased out of every anemone they tried to host in the main tank, even the vacant anemones that not occupied by clowns.
May be they will be accept soon.

 

[phender]

I'm not sure that is a carpet.
It looks more like what I have seen sold as "purple mat" anemones.
I think they are related to H. crispa and H. malu.
Does it have yellow splotches/stripes on the base?

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10253403#post10253403 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
I'm not sure that is a carpet.
It looks more like what I have seen sold as "purple mat" anemones.
I think they are related to H. crispa and H. malu.
Does it have yellow splotches/stripes on the base?

Phil,

It only has light pink/mergenta(not orange or brown) verrucaes all the way down except about 2-3mm of its foot. Parts of it foot has pink verrucaes that all merged into lines. No stripes but more like verrucaes that merged together.

I have seen a few baby gigantea and haddoni but never a mertensii. Every one that I have seen in wild.

Here is a picture that you could see the trunk:
http://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r111/shutiny/?action=view&current=anemones068.jpg

 

[phender]

I can't really see anything in the pictures, but what you are describing are mertens characteristics.
Here is a pic of the underside of the small one that I lost when I upgraded my lighting. When it started to go downhill the spots faded quite a bit.

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10254348#post10254348 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by phender
I can't really see anything in the pictures, but what you are describing are mertens characteristics.
Here is a pic of the underside of the small one that I lost when I upgraded my lighting. When it started to go downhill the spots faded quite a bit.

The verrucaes in your mertensii is rather distinctive. Mine large brown/green one has always got the light brown faded verrucaes, not magenta like yours. But, the tentacles are very similar. The large one was bleached when I got it over a year ago though the tentacles has regained its colors, but the verrucaes have not.

I am remain perplex about the little baby anemone; I guest only time will tell.
Thanks for your help

Shu Tin

 

[marc price]

hum .... is the little clownfish a small a. nigripes ? it looks like the same clownfish in the first pic. sharing the anemone with two a. polymnus . yesterday when i looked at your post i didn't think it was a polymnus . if it is i find it interesting that the polymnus pair seemingly adopted the little nigripes .

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10254714#post10254714 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by marc price
hum .... is the little clownfish a small a. nigripes ? it looks like the same clownfish in the first pic. sharing the anemone with two a. polymnus . yesterday when i looked at your post i didn't think it was a polymnus . if it is i find it interesting that the polymnus pair seemingly adopted the little nigripes .

Yes, they are the same fish in all the pictures I posted. The polymus adopted the baby negries right away. It swam right to the much larger pair with out any hesitation.

 

[shutiny]

Phil,

I will try to get a better picture tomorrow. It is oral disc sits on sand but foot is up on a rock. I am not sure it is a carpet, either.

I can't find any thing on purple mat, you know where I may find the info?
Thanks

 

[phender]

I'm sorry I don't know the species name. They have been around the hobby for as long as I've been keeping tanks. They have always been called purple mats. I think they are probably H. malu, but I am not sure.

 

[CombatVet]

Nice pic of the three together

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10257177#post10257177 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CombatVet
Nice pic of the three together

Here is another pic of the happy family before I sepaerated them:

 

[shutiny]

New pictures from yeasterday