Different colors of baby S.mertensii

[marc price]

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13896775#post13896775 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shutiny
Thanks Marc. What is the thread located? Can you tell or pm me?

your post is light years ahead of it, i ended up answering my own question- http://www.reefmonkey.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=13341 thanks for the heads up i'll see what shows up at my lfs (one of them gets magnifica several times a year). i dont feel good about special ordering any wild collected anemone but on the other hand if its already there... my 72"x18"x18" aquarium is more suitable for a mertensii or sebae (which i currently have), so i'll prob pass on a mag. we'll see.

 

[garygb]

Interesting thread you posted Marc. One thing I noticed that was different from what I read was about clustering. The article I read, it was recently that I read it but I don't know where, said that clusters of H. mag could be found in shallow waters, but not deeper waters. That article said the same thing as far as size, i.e., larger H. mag are found in deeper waters.

It would be interesting to know what the PAR readings are at the greatest depths (130 feet) where H. mags are found.

 

[MJI]

Hi Shutiny, been away, so long time in replying!

I haven't seen any "starry" merts on my dives. All have pretty much been greens and green pinks of the same size as the one in the pic I posted.

Hopefully going back out in a few months time, so will keep my eyes peeled.

I can use this thread as a reason for me taking a holiday now!!

 

[shutiny]

Thanks for the info Michael, have fun in your up coming holidays.
By the way, may I ask where are you going this time?

Hi Marc,
I understand, and respect you commitment to do the right thing and be patient for the right specimen. Thanks for the link, have not had a chance to read it, yet but hope to do it soon.
Did you have magnifica in your tank?

 

[marc price]

s.t., no never a H. magnifica though i 've kept H. crispa, S. haddoni's and E. quadricolor's's's, long term. had a blue S. haddoni back in1985 that only lasted a few days which was the only clownfish hosting anemone i've lost to date. i have what i think could be a H. malu for just about two years now. my motivation for H. magnifica is for a natural host to my A. nigripes. i can reflect sunlight to the water surface which has lots of movement causing focusing and refraction so i'm not too concerned about halides vs. t5's. however tank dimensions aren't ideal for a magnifica and i dont want to jeopardize the purple tang and copperband butterflyfish, so...

 

[MJI]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13902300#post13902300 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shutiny
Thanks for the info Michael, have fun in your up coming holidays.
By the way, may I ask where are you going this time?

Likely the Maldives...

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13904583#post13904583 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by marc price
s.t., no never a H. magnifica though i 've kept H. crispa, S. haddoni's and E. quadricolor's's's, long term. had a blue S. haddoni back in1985 that only lasted a few days which was the only clownfish hosting anemone i've lost to date. i have what i think could be a H. malu for just about two years now. my motivation for H. magnifica is for a natural host to my A. nigripes. i can reflect sunlight to the water surface which has lots of movement causing focusing and refraction so i'm not too concerned about halides vs. t5's. however tank dimensions aren't ideal for a magnifica and i dont want to jeopardize the purple tang and copperband butterflyfish, so...

Are you fear of the manifica may eat your fish? I have A.negripes and they do love mertensii, magnifica, and haddoni. In the main tank, they always choose mertensii over magnifica and haddoni.
But in small tanks, they will take just about any thing, enven a flower pot and halymania.

 

[shutiny]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13905152#post13905152 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MJI
Likely the Maldives...

Wow, Maldives! Not too many places to see A.negripes, magnifica, mertensii all in one trip... It is going to be a great holiday, no doubt.

 

[MJI]

Yep, have seen them all in one dive at the Maldives - on most dives to be fair....

 

[marc price]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13908198#post13908198 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shutiny
Are you fear of the manifica may eat your fish? I have A.negripes... ...In the main tank, they always choose mertensii over magnifica

yes. phender had said something to the effect of a mag capturing and eating your aquarium fish. my 6ish year old tank bred ora nigripes had a H. crispa when first introduced to my d.t. i traded the crispa for a rbta then didn't like them and sold the rbta's. it now has a H. malu (i think), which was the size of a golf ball when i got it and doesnt seem to get larger than 8". i had wanted a large anemoe, would get a S. mertensii over a mag. but the lfs(s), doesn't get them. in many ways H. magnifica reminds me of a large bta. could competion by other species be the reason your nigrips picked the mertensii carpet?

 

[shutiny]

I am not sure why, but it seems that all clown fish I have ever had would prefer to house in mertensii over any other species of anemones. There are more anemones than fish in my tank, so they may stay in a group of anemones.

H.malu is a difficult specie to acclimate for me. I had only kept one and it lived for 1.5 year and never really thrived. Its great that yours thrives in your tank.

 

[marc price]

it requires much more attention than any anemone i've previously kept. also more diff to read in that it's not as predictable as the other types ive had (if that makes sense), came close to losing it twice. its doing well but must eat twice - at min. once a week. i suspect a greater % of food is digested than had been by my H. crispa and others ive kept - ive yet to find remnents of its morsel. haven't fed it whole fish (guts and bones inc), and it wont take proportionatley larger morsel/mouth size as my crispa and haddoni so not sure of that.

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13917523#post13917523 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shutiny
I am not sure why, but it seems that all clown fish I have ever had would prefer to house in mertensii over any other species of anemones. There are more anemones than fish in my tank, so they may stay in a group of anemones.

My Chrysopterus are weird.... It seems like my clowns favor my purple M. Doreensis over my Mertensii.
The female sleeps in the mertensii but spends most of the day in the M. Doreensis with the male.
They are still young maybe someday they'll learn the Mertensii is the better choice.

 

[shutiny]

Not sure why, may be not all chrysopterus are equal.
When her mertensii got sick, my female chrysopterus left her mertensii and went on to a different one and she never fully returned to her old one. Even after the anemone recovered.

 

[Reefvette]

Akindynos

Akindynos

My GBR clowns hand out in my gigantea all day, the female sleeps in a RBTA and they leave my magnifica alone.


Im telling you if i can find a mertenssi i would ditch the mag and the rbta.


Id also like to pick up a pair of luekranos.

 

[shutiny]

Re: Akindynos

Re: Akindynos

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13924687#post13924687 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reefvette
My GBR clowns hand out in my gigantea all day, the female sleeps in a RBTA and they leave my magnifica alone.


Im telling you if i can find a mertenssi i would ditch the mag and the rbta.


Id also like to pick up a pair of luekranos.

Your clown are lucky, they have magnifica and gigantea all in one tank and they are the most difficult species to acclimate.
Great job!
Any pictures?

 

[Reefvette]

here you go

here you go

 

[marc price]

reefv how long have you had them, what size new/now also what LxWxH tank? fwiw i see more different kinds of similarities between magnifica and E. quadricolor then to its H. congeners. i.e., never had or read of otherwise (or not), healthy sebaes or carpets drop (not torn off as with gigs), tentacles like bta's and mags.. btw i'll lyk if i find a few mertensii at our lfs's. :rollface:

 

[Reefvette]

anemones

anemones

They are both in. 30 gallon breeder tank. 36 18 12. Get this there under T-5. Soon to be moved to 50 breeder hopefully minus the rbta and mag and add a mertenssi.

The lights are a aquatinics TX5. Since the tank Is sooo low the T-5 are more then enough light for both anemones.I'm pretty sure its enough light since I have all kinds of acros growing under it.

Gigantea - when I aquaried this from fellow reefer as a regular carpet. LOL. It looked like an upside down bell in shape. Not spread out and flat looking like it should. It was 8 inches when I got it. Now about 14 to 15 in diameter.Total years in captivity 2 in my care 1.

Magnifica - this was bought about two months ago. It was about 4 inches when I bought it and looking healthy. Now fully open its around 7. Sadly I only bought this anemone to save it and pass it on. They were feeding it live goldfish. I told the store worker if he fed it one more goldfish I wouldn't buy it. He didn't and now its mine. I also noticed that the mag poops a lot more then an other anemone. It also t comepletely shrinks down when it poops and the poops are huge and dark brown or blackish.

Both eating, only thing I notice is that the mag doesn't like mysis.

 

[shutiny]

Great job ReefV.
How often does the critter "pooping" in large dark color"blob"?

Here are some pictures of anemone poops. In general, we could quest the health of an anemone. Consistency and make up of anemone poop has been a good indicator for me in evaluating my anemone progression.

Here are pictures of healthy poops from two different haddoni:

Caulerpa poop, after it ate and digested some caulepa

This is the common "normal" waste that has consistency, may be much smaller and fragmented but has consistency: