H. Magnifica
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AQUA DAVE
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Elegance maybe you will appreciate this one
This is in a 75 that I set up two years ago. I had the elegance for two years myself. I recieved it and the bag had busted and it was dry.... looked like it was barely hanging on. Since then it has gone from the size of my fist to the size of a basketball..... I had a flood in my apt and had to break down my tank and sold it to one of my customers so that I can still take care of it.
This is in a 75 that I set up two years ago. I had the elegance for two years myself. I recieved it and the bag had busted and it was dry.... looked like it was barely hanging on. Since then it has gone from the size of my fist to the size of a basketball..... I had a flood in my apt and had to break down my tank and sold it to one of my customers so that I can still take care of it.
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elegance coral
They call me EC
Beautiful, and very healthy. You don't see many Elegance corals that healthy in the hobby any more. If anything ever happens and they no longer want to care for it, please look me up. It would be a shame for that coral to go to someone that doesn't know what they have. Truly an amazing Elegance! One in thousands.
Joe LoPresti
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I just finished going through the postings and wow is that a beautiful anemone!! I love the color of the base, is really that deep of a purple?? Absolutely gorgeous...
I think my favorite pic you posted is of it balling up like that, totally cool!! I only have RBTA's and they're nice looking too, but man am I impressed with that Magnifica!!!
I think my favorite pic you posted is of it balling up like that, totally cool!! I only have RBTA's and they're nice looking too, but man am I impressed with that Magnifica!!!
elegance coral
They call me EC
Thanks for the bump, and yes, he is that purple in person. If anything the pics don't do him justice.
He has made it for more than a month now. He expands well and I feed it every three days. He also eats every day when I feed the fish, and snacks on tiny particles in the water. He has continued to lose zooxanthellae though. Which has me a little concerned. I have dosed the tank with a SMALL amount of iodine, vitamins, and amino acids. I'm cutting back down on the MH today. It will only be on for 4 hours. This is another problem with having different species of anemone in the same tank. If I don't run the MH long enough, the carpet will take off. Trust me, you don't want a 16" Haddoni wandering around in a 55gl tank. He is a bulldozer.
Here are some pics from last weekend. The one month mark.
He has made it for more than a month now. He expands well and I feed it every three days. He also eats every day when I feed the fish, and snacks on tiny particles in the water. He has continued to lose zooxanthellae though. Which has me a little concerned. I have dosed the tank with a SMALL amount of iodine, vitamins, and amino acids. I'm cutting back down on the MH today. It will only be on for 4 hours. This is another problem with having different species of anemone in the same tank. If I don't run the MH long enough, the carpet will take off. Trust me, you don't want a 16" Haddoni wandering around in a 55gl tank. He is a bulldozer.
Here are some pics from last weekend. The one month mark.
Reef Mongoose
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that purple really is sweet
Pacific Reefs
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Looking sweet. I was worried about all those other nems in your system but everything looks great.
ento-reefer
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That mag is absolutely stunning. I love nems and someday when I have more experience I am going to set up a tank for one.
elegance coral
They call me EC
I think you're right again.
When I changed the timer for the MH I accidentally turned the switch off. For the past few days it has been living with no MH. The tank has four 55W compacts and two 40W standard florescents. It's zooxanthellae seem to be coming back. The bleaching was patchy. It seemed to be most obvious on the crest of the folds and the higher portion of the anemone. Now the color seems to be more even and maybe a little darker. I'm taking tomorrow off work, so I'll be home to see how he reacts to the MH. It's set to come on at 1:00 and off at 5:00.
elegance coral
They call me EC
Thanks for all the nice comments. 
If you count the aptaisia:mad2: , I have 5 different species of anemone in this system. All is well for now, but could go wrong tomorrow. My personal belief is that anemones don't waste resources producing toxins and constantly discharging them into the water. Most toxins and venoms are very biologically expensive to produce. Animals don't just go throwing it around for no reason. I do believe it's possible for an anemone to release toxins in self defence, or for some other unknown reason. Because we don't know what an anemone will preserve as a threat, we have no way of knowing when or if an anemone will discharge toxins into the water. I hope no one reads this thread and thinks there is no danger in mixing anemones. I believe there is always a risk.
If you count the aptaisia:mad2: , I have 5 different species of anemone in this system. All is well for now, but could go wrong tomorrow. My personal belief is that anemones don't waste resources producing toxins and constantly discharging them into the water. Most toxins and venoms are very biologically expensive to produce. Animals don't just go throwing it around for no reason. I do believe it's possible for an anemone to release toxins in self defence, or for some other unknown reason. Because we don't know what an anemone will preserve as a threat, we have no way of knowing when or if an anemone will discharge toxins into the water. I hope no one reads this thread and thinks there is no danger in mixing anemones. I believe there is always a risk.
Slakker
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Yeah, that's a great point. No one really knows when an anemone "feels" threatened, so it's impossible to know if/when allelopathy will occur.
I'm glad you ended your post the way you did...it's stuff like this that helps the hobby to move forward, when an aquarist takes a risk, in order to truly be successful i believe (s)he must not only acknowledge the risk involved and try to reduce it as much as possible through husbandry practices, but also do what (s)he can to try to understand the reasoning.
I'm glad you ended your post the way you did...it's stuff like this that helps the hobby to move forward, when an aquarist takes a risk, in order to truly be successful i believe (s)he must not only acknowledge the risk involved and try to reduce it as much as possible through husbandry practices, but also do what (s)he can to try to understand the reasoning.
elegance coral
They call me EC
Well, the bleaching continued. He lost most of his zooxanthellae. I think I just have to many lights on this tank. He looked even lighter in person.
In an effort to stop the bleaching, I dosed a small amount of iodine. It worked. Within days the zooxanthellae had returned.
Unfortunately, so did his difficulty adjusting to my lights. His mouth started gaping and his tentacles would deflate to the point that they looked like string, and he started discharging zooxanthellae again.
Now I have taken drastic measures. Everyone here has me a little paranoid about the whole aleopathy thing. With the rough behavior of the Saddle Back I added for the Haddoni, I fear the carpet may be leaking internal fluids into the water. I have removed all my Elegance corals from their tank and moved the Mag in. This is a much more stable system, with a very small bio load. I have much more control over the lighting with 8 different lights I can turn on or leave off. It is a 29gl tank with a 55gl sump.
In an effort to stop the bleaching, I dosed a small amount of iodine. It worked. Within days the zooxanthellae had returned.
Unfortunately, so did his difficulty adjusting to my lights. His mouth started gaping and his tentacles would deflate to the point that they looked like string, and he started discharging zooxanthellae again.
Now I have taken drastic measures. Everyone here has me a little paranoid about the whole aleopathy thing. With the rough behavior of the Saddle Back I added for the Haddoni, I fear the carpet may be leaking internal fluids into the water. I have removed all my Elegance corals from their tank and moved the Mag in. This is a much more stable system, with a very small bio load. I have much more control over the lighting with 8 different lights I can turn on or leave off. It is a 29gl tank with a 55gl sump.
Reef Mongoose
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how much light did you have on it? casue my mag can't seem to get enough light, sometimes he climbs right up the glass and sits right under the halides
elegance coral
They call me EC
I hope so. I can't seem to get the light just right for him. When he was under the bright 10K MH he would expand and look beautiful, but he slowly bleached. He never seemed affected by the bleaching though. He continued to expand and eat anything that touched him. (but the clowns.) He won't expand well under lower lighting. Today I had him under an old 14K MH, one 55W compact 50/50, and mounted to the sides of the tank are two 20W actinic compacts. When I got home, his mouth was tight, but he was only about 8 inches across. He should be about 12. Tomorrow I will pick up a new 14K MH bulb and see if it makes a difference.
This is basically a species tank. Outside of the normal LR critters like sponges and feather dusters, there are just a few small SPS frags, one open brain, and a couple of shrooms. There is only one fish, and I don't feed him. It's a mandarin goby. Aleopathy is no longer a concern. If he doesn't improve in this tank, I don't know what else I can do for him.
