H. Magnifica

[E.J. Coral]

Before i gave it away, my magnifica did this on a nightly basis.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12469756#post12469756 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by elegance coral
He made it 3 weeks and did the whole ball looking posture. I see pics of them like this in the wild all the time, but have never seen a pic of them doing this in captivity. He only did this for a few minutes, then he opened right back up. I wish I knew what caused it.

 

[fishkid6692]

my mag died after lasting for a little more than 2 weeks. i had a tank crash and lost all my corals so i will try again once it's up and running.

 

[garygb]

Very sorry to hear that fishkid.

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12471168#post12471168 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by E.J. Coral
Before i gave it away, my magnifica did this on a nightly basis.

Do you have any idea why? Lighting, capturing pods that come out at night?

 

[Mirror Pond]

I've got two mags and one has balled up a couple of times a day since I acquired it but I have only seen my other one ball up once in the last 1.5 years. It seems to react to the lights, usually balling up when they first turn on and then later in the evening when the first set of halides turn off, although it has also done it in the middle of the day.

 

[Gig 'em]

To me it seems strange for an anemone to ball up. Since it's tentacles are one of it's only forms of protection, balling up leaves it's foot susceptible to attack by predators. Or balling up could be a defensive position. Whatever the reason I would really like to know the true reason

 

[benzc01]

Mine does it every night and its def the lights , why I have no clue but its def the lights haha

 

[Pacific Reefs]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12469756#post12469756 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by elegance coral

Well I guess it's not a BTA :lol:

 

[elegance coral]

My Magnifica eats like a pig! I feed it about every third day. He also eats the fish food I feed the fish twice a day. I couldn't find my Yellow Tang this morning before I left for work. I thought that my 16 inch carpet may have eaten it, but when I came home from work I found this.

 

[reefman13]

That sucks!

 

[Gig 'em]

oh man!!!! That totally sucks!!!! Sorry to hear that. Hey look on the bright side, at least you know he is extremely healthy

 

[benzc01]

wow thats the most awesome thing ive ever seen!!!! sorry to get such enjoyment out of your tangs demise but i think its amazing

 

[Gig 'em]

I have a similar story when my RBTA ate my flame angel. At least a couple days later it split and I believe the large feast encouraged the it so I wasn't TOO disappointed.

 

[Pacific Reefs]

Wow he caught a tang? Dude I can't believe it! I would have thought the carpet would be the guilty one. Sorry about your loss.

 

[elegance coral]

Thanks everybody.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12487228#post12487228 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gig 'em
I have a similar story when my RBTA ate my flame angel. At least a couple days later it split and I believe the large feast encouraged the it so I wasn't TOO disappointed.

I hate the fact that I lost the Tang, but if the Magnifica splits, he can have the other one too.

 

[elegance coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12487441#post12487441 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Pacific Reefs
Wow he caught a tang? Dude I can't believe it! I would have thought the carpet would be the guilty one. Sorry about your loss.

That's what I thought when I got up in the morning and couldn't find the Tang. I just knew the Carpet had finally got one. I was shocked when I came home and found that the Magnifica was to blame.

 

[OrionN]

It look like he did not eat it after all. He seem to regurgitate it out.
I think this is the first ever that I heard that H. magnifica kill a fish (with documentation of it). I have keep these anemone for a long time and never lost a fish or heard of anybody lost a fish to one.

 

[elegance coral]

I think it is the over crowding issue that caused this. I have been studying Elegance Corals for a very long time, and the only time I know of them capturing and eating SW fish is when they are confined in a small space together. If this was a larger tank, it would be easier for the fish to avoid the tentacles.

 

[Gig 'em]

that would make sense that being crowded in with a sticky predator would make it easy to accidentally bump into a stinging tentacle. Once they are caught by a couple tentacles then they are pretty much gone.

 

[VictorD]

Just read thru your thread.
Wow! Congrats man!
Amazing anemonies!