Discussion Thread: Anemone List and Pictures

[OrionN]

Healthy Gigantea and verrucae of Gigantea

Gigantea with breeding clowns

 

[taylor t]

Minh, that's a real heart breaker what happened with your malu. Beautiful nems they were. And to think it was on the verge of babies... How they grew/survived could have really been good info.

 

[OrionN]

Purple and greenish Gigantea

 

[OrionN]

Blue Haddoni

 

[OrionN]

Newly imported but recovering tan Gigantea

Same anemone recovered

 

[OrionN]

Tentacles of a healthy Gigantea, notice the tapper shaped tips. Haddoni's tentacles often enlarged and blunted tip.

 

[OrionN]

Pink/red Haddoni. this one just made do with the condition of the tank. They really need deep sand bed

Same anemone, different tank and different light

 

[taylor t]

S. Mertensii

 

[taylor t]

Minh, you've had some beauties come through your tanks. For sure, wow!

 

[OrionN]

Comparing tentacles of Haddoni, Mertensii and Gignatea. Haddoni tentacles are blunted with slight enlargement near the tips. Shape to Mertensii and Gigantea tentacles are the same except Mertensii tentacles are longer near the center.

One word of caution, these rules only apply to healthy anemones. All bets are off when we look at stressed like newly imported anemones. It take multiples minor characteristics to ID an anemone, especially a stressed anemone. One cannot put everything into just one characteristic and make positive ID due to this character alone in disregard to other finding. Sometime I seen and keep anemones that have characteristic of both Haddoni and Gigantea. Most likely these anemones are hybrid of the two species.

 

[OrionN]

Minh, you've had some beauties come through your tanks. For sure, wow!

Thanks. You have a few nice anemones yourself

 

[OrionN]

My Magnifica today. I have had him for ? 4 years

 

[Jasanden]

Who has a healthy Mertensii?

 

[taylor t]

Who has a healthy Mertensii?

I do, I posted some pics above. I've had it for a few years.

 

[Jasanden]

Lol, it was in the middle of Mihn's full page of pics. I thought it was his brown Gig . The tentacles seem slightly longer than other picks I e seen so I just pat over it.

 

[benjho]

My two bta's
IMG_8445 by iscolymia, on Flickr
IMG_8450 by iscolymia, on Flickr

 

[adtravels]

my mertens is still doing well

 

[adtravels]

 

[taylor t]

Adtravels, looks like you have percs in your mertens, right? Have you seen them rip off tentacles and eat them? I've watched for the last few weeks with mine. I had a dozen baby onyx percula. Not just one, multiple different clowns, would rip off tentacles and eat them. I got rid of my last trio of chocolate glaze clowns because of this. Last night/dark morning (with a cup), I removed my clowns. They don't do this with gigs. Only mertens. Have you noticed this behavior with yours?

 

[taylor t]

Pay no attention to the photo bomber chromis, but after the clown rips off the tent, you see the anemone retract from it. Multiple clowns do this. My trio also did this. They don't do this, that I've ever seen, with a gig. I'm beginning to think clowns eat mertens in the wild, maybe? Even after being fed, it still happens.
http://vid256.photobucket.com/albums/hh180/dave1748/Mobile Uploads/trim.287LYM_zpssxqlz28r.mp4

They swallow what they rip off, all of them.