Finally got a Ritteri/Magnifica
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lifeoffaith
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How long did it take for the clowns to go to the anemone? I will say I appreciate the pairing of the correct new with the correct clown. It seems like so many are pairing up bubble tips with occys and percs which just isn't natural. I have bubble tips, but I got the correct clowns to go with them (naked cinnamon clownfish). Mine so far have no interest in the anemones. I'll probably have to coax them in.
fullmonti
now is the time
These only took a few days, don't remember exactly but seems like just 2-3 days and they were home. I have wanted to do this for years. About 10-12 years ago before I knew why they didn't survive shipping very well I got a big beautiful Ritteri from LA and it didn't make it. Live and learn I guess.
marc price
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Do you still have it and how is it doing?
Asking because I have an H. mag for 14 months now which was just as small, actually probably smaller than yours when I got it. It stayed put from the get-go, the two A. percula clowns took to it in no time but the anemone was dwarfed even by the small 1.75" male A. percula! (I'd post pix only I've had it with Photobucket and haven't figured out another way to post pix), It eventually grew large enough to adequately host the small male percula while growing from the size of a golf ball to a softball. Eventually, the large female clownfish began stealing the anemones morsel of shrimp and what growth it achieved had begun to reverse itself. I then tried feeding sardines purchased at Whole Foods fresh fish department. The clown wouldn't touch the sardines and the anemone began to grow again with every other day feedings. It just about was sizable enough to host both the small male and large female. Then the large clownfish began to swipe the sardine from the anemone only it took me around two months or so to notice and the anemone began to shrink. I then had to physically bat the clownfish away long enough for the anemone to eat and it took pretty long to engulf the food so I switched back to Trader Joes wild-caught shrimp. The anemone has been eating when fed every other day, varying the size of the morsel affects the time it takes to fully engulf it which can be anywhere from 15minutes to two hours of me playing defensive blocker with the clownfish which gets old fast!
For several months now, I've been making sure the food is not being snatched by the clowns yet the anemone still hasn't grown past the size of a hardball and here I read of you not feeding yours for several months and it keeps growing which has me wondering what the heck is wrong with my little H. magnifica anemone?
fullmonti
now is the time
I still have mine. I have not fed it anything extra or directly for a year or more. It has still grown but not what I would call fast any more. Oddly it has been keeping it's tentacles much shorted for months now and has gotten more of a solid purple color. Nem and clowns are doing very well. Sorry I really don't know what is going on with your nem or what to say you should do. hopefully one of the more knowledgeable people here will see this and have some insight to share with us all.
We are going to be selling our house and building a new house and we have started pairing down every thing because we will live in a camper while building. My nem and clown will be moving to a local reefers tank shortly. When ever we get our new house done I will be setting up a 180 tank and already have the center piece rock made for a large Ritteri to live on.
Here is a photo of my guys.
We are going to be selling our house and building a new house and we have started pairing down every thing because we will live in a camper while building. My nem and clown will be moving to a local reefers tank shortly. When ever we get our new house done I will be setting up a 180 tank and already have the center piece rock made for a large Ritteri to live on.
Here is a photo of my guys.
marc price
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I still don't know how you are getting away without directly feeding the mag. What am I missing ... do you routinely dump a cloud of food in the tank and it's capturing lots of small pieces of food? My fish are all tank bred, they like small pelleted food and aren't very interested in frozen, although they will eat table shrimp if I give them some. I feed them at most every other day more as a distraction from the anemone being fed. I only keep SPS which doesn't require "broadcast feeding". I can only guess you are broadcast feeding your fish and LPS which in turn is nourishing your H. mag???
fullmonti
now is the time
I feed frozen foods every day but not a lot, the fish eat it all in just a minute. I know the nem gets a few pieces pretty often. It's my understanding anemones are like corals and can live just fine with nothing more than good light. Just like corals they do grow faster if fed but not required. I don't know how others keep their anemones but this has been working for me, fish and nem all doing well. I do keep pretty low nutrients levels in the tank.
