H.Crispa update.

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

If you guys want to post your experience with your sebae you are more than welcome. This is what mine looked like last week.
First it was here...


Then it moved here...


It decided that was a good place and settled in...

Todays pictures..





Does it look the same or does its color look darker or lighter to you guys? I can see its getting some of its green back and a bit of the purple. Unfortunately, those colors I am seeing are not showing up in the pictures. lol. Maybe in a month or so I will see a huge change.

 

[Bmgrocks]

It looks like its getting Darker, Thats a good sign , it seems healthy, leave it be, continue feeding, its good to see a healthy H.Crispa, Congrats!

 

[kimsie]

I think it looks great! Congrats Christina and thanks for posting this thread - I think it's helpful.

 

[garygb]

Looks perfect!

 

[marie]

When I posted this pic in dec I had my doubts it was a crispa

But when I changed the flow around in the tank it now looks like this...definitely a crispa

and for a growth reference the clown in the first pic is the little clown, the larger female didn't really fit very well before and never went into the anemone

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

Very nice sebae marie...I like its colors..what changes did you do to the flow?

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

I know for sure mine ate a silverside yesterday. I watched it slowly take the food to its mouth. Made a mental note, mine doesn't like shrimp. Too bad its not hosting my clowns yet. I know its not a natural host for ocellaris but I'm not brave enough to take on a H. magnifica. I have seen ocellaris in a sebae before..I wish sgarron would post some updated pictures of the ocellaris in the sebae they have.

 

[kimsie]

Marie - beautiful Sebae!!!

Christina - Glad yours ate the silverslide!

I have to get pics of my new one tonight... It did move just a little last night - still attached to the rock I bought it on - but scooted over to the right hand side of it's rock - and back so it's now touching the back of the tank. Only question though is it's close to my HOB filter intake... Some of the tentacles were touching it - but it didn't look like it was being 'pulled' at all. If the Sebae decides to stay there - I'm going to move it. It doesn't have a strong pull at all - but still...

 

[reefman13]

I think I may have asked this question, but what is the lighting? Parameters?

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

Kim where is the pictures?

I could see the digested silverside was coming out of its mouth today..ooh the fish loved that. I guess it was still full from the snail it ate the day before I fed it a silverside. Yeah..I think it ate a snail..the snail fell off the glass and on the anemone. The sebae closed up on the snail then opened up..I didn't see the snail anymore. So, I am assuming it was eaten.

 

[kimsie]

Trying to post a pic of mine... testing

 

[kimsie]

Christina - will you PM me on how to post images like you do?

 

[sgarron]

wicked_NaCl_h2o,
I haven't posted updated pics because the seabae somehow got a tear in it's foot and 2 weeks later I removed a pile of mush from my tank. Don't know how it got torn, maybe too much attention from the clowns. I may try another or I may feed these clowns to a monster Haddoni.

 

[kimsie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11911558#post11911558 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sgarron
wicked_NaCl_h2o,
I haven't posted updated pics because the seabae somehow got a tear in it's foot and 2 weeks later I removed a pile of mush from my tank. Don't know how it got torn, maybe too much attention from the clowns. I may try another or I may feed these clowns to a monster Haddoni.

Oh how sad!!! I'm sorry for your loss!

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

Oh no..thats not good.. I hope mine doesn't have that problem. How long did you have yours before it died? Was it really sticky when you added it to the tank? Did it ever attach and stay in one place? I am just trying to see if the one I have has a better chance than the first one I got from divers den. The first one turned to mush in less than two weeks. Today is the last day of the two weeks for this one ..so I am a bit worried.

 

[sgarron]

it was very sticky, it attached, then unattached. it was also from divers den. it lasted 3 maybe 4 weeks. where did you get this one from?

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

Divers den too...it is the replacement one from the first one. This one seems to be doing better than the first one I bought from them. I don't get it..yours looked very healthy sgarron.

 

[sgarron]

I don't get it either. It seemed healthy. It ate some shrimp the third day but wouldn't eat again after that. That's when I noticed the tare and it was down hill from there.

 

[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

not so good news

not so good news

For the past 4 or 5 days my sebae haven't been looking as great as the other pictures. It also detached from the spot where it stayed for three weeks, mouth is open, and is much smaller then the first pictures.
Our water change schedule is 6 gallons on wednesday and another 6 gallons saturday every week.
When the anemone started to not look good we did a 10 gallon water change on saturday. so four gallons extra then normal. Yesteday I did a water change again to see if that will improve the looks of the anemone.
I didn't take a picture of it yesterday but I thought it looked horrible. All of its tentacles were deflated and it looked like a ball of stringy white and black stuff was coming out of its mouth. I hope it was just taking a dump and that wasn't its insides. Today it looks better but not as good..still haven't reattached to anything so I have to keep the powerheads off. Only water movement in the tank is the return flow from the refugium and the canister filter we use as a power head (there is no filter media in it.) We change the carbon weekly..

water temp 78F
SG 1.026
ammonia 0
nitrites 0
nitrates 0
PH 8.2
Phos 0
mag 1300
calcium 480
Lights 560 watt: 2-150 watt HQI; 2-130 watt 6 lunar

I hope it reattaches soon ..here is a picture

 

[sgarron]

Christina, easy on the water changes. Too much is not good either. If your parameters are good there really is no reason to change more than 10% a week. It doesn't look as good as it did, but doesn't look to be dying either. When mine went it went quick, hopefully you won't find out what I mean. Good luck.

I decided against another sebae. I decided on BTA Island instead. I gave half of my 180 to what is now 3 BTA's (soon to be 4, the large red is splitting).