marc price
Active member
sad being lost to high temps after all those years. i'm looking at it's pic in 12/95 fama, back then it was a good size in relation to the female onyx perc and the male and clearly my idea of H. crispa. much like my first sebae. interestingly i fed my current sebae yesterday and just measured a 3.25" tentacle today. that is much longer than i'd expect from H. malu. one in the same? hard to say.
i had been thinking that these brown/magenta sebae's may just be young as opposed to what was a 12"+ when collected, bleached and shrunk to 3" by the time it reached the lfs. would explain the rapid growth of those sebae's as opposed to ours.
i'd like to post the pic from the article cited in my last post but don't want to push copyright infringement any more than i already am. suffice to say it looks like a small "crispa" with translucent tentacles. i.e. the tentacle size and shape in relation to the overall size of the anemone. the size at which these animals are found in those waters and size at reproducing is what's puzzling to me. based on photos of H. crispa spawn's i'd of thought crispa wouldn't be sexually mature till larger. but who knows after all we don't even know how long they live.
i came across a few small ~2"-3" translucent yellow tentacle with bright orange columns marked as "sand anemones" at a lfs this past january. i don't think they were dyed. was at "the hidden reef" if anyone here has one please post pics. looked to me like what i expect of H. malu, short tentacles, blotchy colored column and so on, (i've seen small sebae's with the white rings around short tentacles and blotchy yellow/orange lower column which screamed H. malu), was told they came in a shipment from hawaii. a few were dug in the sand, most flip flopped. prob. should've got one if for no other reason than i.d. purposes. called back two days later and was told they sold out. perhaps a sub-species or something else.
unfortunately i haven't been given a grant from exon to classify these animals and can only go on what little information we can gather. this topic has been bought up before on this forum and left unresolved. would be nice if we could better define them.
i had been thinking that these brown/magenta sebae's may just be young as opposed to what was a 12"+ when collected, bleached and shrunk to 3" by the time it reached the lfs. would explain the rapid growth of those sebae's as opposed to ours.
i'd like to post the pic from the article cited in my last post but don't want to push copyright infringement any more than i already am. suffice to say it looks like a small "crispa" with translucent tentacles. i.e. the tentacle size and shape in relation to the overall size of the anemone. the size at which these animals are found in those waters and size at reproducing is what's puzzling to me. based on photos of H. crispa spawn's i'd of thought crispa wouldn't be sexually mature till larger. but who knows after all we don't even know how long they live.
i came across a few small ~2"-3" translucent yellow tentacle with bright orange columns marked as "sand anemones" at a lfs this past january. i don't think they were dyed. was at "the hidden reef" if anyone here has one please post pics. looked to me like what i expect of H. malu, short tentacles, blotchy colored column and so on, (i've seen small sebae's with the white rings around short tentacles and blotchy yellow/orange lower column which screamed H. malu), was told they came in a shipment from hawaii. a few were dug in the sand, most flip flopped. prob. should've got one if for no other reason than i.d. purposes. called back two days later and was told they sold out. perhaps a sub-species or something else.
unfortunately i haven't been given a grant from exon to classify these animals and can only go on what little information we can gather. this topic has been bought up before on this forum and left unresolved. would be nice if we could better define them.
