H. Magnifica Picture/Video Showoff Thread!

[OrionN]

I got both of the above at Aquarium Masters, a LFS here in Corpus Christi. I got both establish in a 100 g cube species tank but got greedy and added a 3rd really beautiful Magnifica anemone with bright purple tips. It was sick and passed whatever it got to my other two and all three died within 2 weeks of each other.

 

[G4546]

Oh good lord. I'm sorry to hear that Minh. Though I'd like to thank you for posting a quick pic of the late beauty of yours. PM'd

 

[GoTRiCe19]

Yellow tip purple base mag. 2 months in and grown 2 inch.

Video


<a href=http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v255/GoTRiCe19/?action=view&current=VIDEO0036.mp4 target=_blank><img src=http://static.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vidmg.photobucket.com/albums/v255/GoTRiCe19/VIDEO0036.mp4 border=0 alt=></a>

 

[Conrad25]

My green mag I saved at the end of march this year.

When I got it and saved it from a chicago fish store

Now

 

[elegance coral]

Great save Conrad!!!!!!!!

 

[Ambition]

I have never seen green mags before. I agree with EC on the great save!


Sorry you lost yours, Mihn.


Glad people keep posting pictures and sharing. Been kind of a bad thread owner.

 

[OrionN]

Yellow Magnifica

 

[garygb]

 

[Conrad25]

Gary im envious of your beautiful mag there. The color contrast is wicked

 

[OrionN]

Gary,
What light color is your anemone under? If not under full light, what is the color is like under full aquarium light?

 

[Ambition]

Gary, that mag looks amazing! Envious of every anyone with healthy mags, but especially yours!

 

[garygb]

Thanks Conrad and Ambition. I've had that mag going on 11 years. I wish it had a nice purple or bright red base, but it's the typical reddish/brownish base type. I have a purple based one, but it's tentacles are rather dull. C'est la vie

Orion, I have it under an ATI T-5 Sunpower fixture with 3 ATI blue plus, 1 pinkish looking bulb that I can't recall the exact name (but it's an ATI, too) , and one 6500K GE.

 

[G4546]

Great save +3!

 

[Tmoriarty]

Here is a picture of my mag from a couple months ago as well as a video.

Here is a more recent picture that I took with my phone, not as good but it was taken a week or two ago, shows a little of the extreme loss of color in the female clownfish.

Here is a picture of the tank when I had 3 magnificas in it, the other two perished within two weeks of getting them, I can only assume that with how healthy the original is that the other two had damaged feet. They did not do well after the course of a week and eventually perished within a month. Both of the other two nems also did poorly when seperated to another tank which is where they eventually perished. But the sea of sea anemones is still awesome looking.

 

[Ambition]

Tmoriarty, beautiful mags! Sorry to hear that two of them perished, is a shame. You did your best though. The one you have looks great though! Are you going to try and add more mags, or not?

 

[Tmoriarty]

Sorry for the late reply, yes I am going to be adding more magnificas to the tank, I have heard it is iffy to get it to work and that one of the nems normally dominates and the others will eventually shrink away.

While that may have been a possibility with these magnificas I feel the case is more likely that they were just in bad condition from when I received them and put them in the tank. The center area of my tank is designed for nems, right now I have a BTA within 3 inches of my magnifica and have no problems with chemical warfare. With the magnificas touching they did not exibit signs of stinging or aggression towards eachother.

Right now I am just waiting on the next shipment of magnificas to come in to the supplier I use to buy some more.

 

[OrionN]

Tyler,
Add a new Magnifica to a tank with healthy Magnifica you risk adding a sick Magnifica to a healthy one. The worst thing that can happen, which happended to me, is the sick one transmit what ever disease it have to the healthy one and kill all of them. My sick anemone die in 2 weeks and the others all die within 2 weeks after that. I would not add another anemone to the tank unless you quarantine it first. At home in another tank, or at the LFS. As you know, newly arrive Magnifica have a high chance of having disease. You may luck out but then again, you may not.

 

[OrionN]

My two Magnifica pictures taken just now with my cell phone. IMO, there are at least two distinct variety of Magnifica. One with short bulb type tentacles and one with more pointed longer tentacles.

 

[addictedreefer]

My two Magnifica pictures taken just now with my cell phone. IMO, there are at least two distinct variety of Magnifica. One with short bulb type tentacles and one with more pointed longer tentacles.

I completely agree. May be two subspecies. Would be interesting to see the results of a DNA analysis.

 

[M Woodhill]

here is mine:

yellow tips purple/pink tentacles orange base, gorgeous

the very aggressive skunk clownfish is patrolin its territory tirelessly, no one including the two males can approach