Mag Garden

[Reefvette]

I wanted to see if i could get magnifica anemones to colonize it seems to be working with some help from Diamonds of the Reef.
Blurry pics, early morning shot and a night shot

 

[deangelr]

Those clowns are great too..

 

[Reefvette]

The one on the lower part of the rock is coloring up nicely in the tentacles the other is starting to color up. Both eat Rods food like its candy.

 

[sonofgaladriel]

Very nice! You have my 'Holy Grail' of nems there! I am desperately looking for a nice red based white tentacle mag. Very jealous!

 

[Reefvette]

Mertens

Mertens

If i find another mertens carpet you can have them.

I wish i could find one or two more but i need to change my rock work first.

They love flat surfaces and i need to build some.

PS i hope they dont stay WHITE

 

[psusocr]

Reefvette,

Are the tentacles bleached on those? was that how you bought them? or did they lose their color from lighting?

 

[Reefvette]

I bought them bleached. Since im an anemone head and i love them. I rehab anemones in my tanks.

The lower one has been gaining color quickly the one on top hasnt its mouth if fully closed and it never deflates but its not pickin color as quick.

I run AI SOL at 37 percent white and 80 blue.

 

[AlexS95]

If that crab wasn't red, he'd blend in pretty good... xD

 

[Reefvette]

My rocks is purple yo

 

[trueblackpercula]

Nice idea

 

[Conrad25]

Hope to see them on a color up recovery road. Those look pretty bleached out

 

[Reefvette]

As you can see the lower one is coloring up nicely the top one eats but hasnt picked up an color yet.

 

[Reefvette]

More

 

[Gig 'em]

nice anemones! I'm so jealous, I wish I could own a pair of mags. The red based one is gorgeous, it does look bleached, but I think I've seen pictures of red based mags with white tentacles in the wild, so there's a possibility that it won't color up. I'm not sure if that's how they are naturally or if they're bleached, but I guess you'll find out eventually

 

[Reefvette]

Im getting the brother and sister to the darker colored one next week It will officially be a mag garden

 

[BonsaiNut]

I've not had a problem keeping mags together, but I'm pretty sure I had clones (I brought some home from Tahiti a long time ago). Just know that mags can detect the difference between clones of themselves and other individuals, and have occasionally responded aggressively toward other individuals when they touch. In the wild when I see several individuals close together that are clearly not clones (ie different color morphs) they can be very close, but they never seem to touch. They seem to leave a little space between individuals. Clones on the other hand are so close that they appear almost to be a single individual - bases and tentacles touching, etc.

 

[Creetin]

Very nice love the latz!

 

[Reefvette]

Bonsai they all came in from the same collector same shipment same day of arrival. The store got 5 and sold me two and now they are selling me thenother two.

Right now the two i have intermingle tentacles when lights are o. Full blast

 

[elegance coral]

I don't know what this is worth, but I'll share it anyway. I had a blue base mag for a little over a year. It was growing, eating, and doing fine. I purchased a red base mag, and placed it on the pedestal right next to the blue one. The blue one moved as if to get away from the red one. The blue one started to shrink, stopped eating, and started looking pretty bad. I separated the two so they weren't touching. The blue one spent the next couple of months trying to split. I finally helped it out with a razor blade. One half died, and I still have the other.
It's well documented that colonial anemones will do battle with other colonial anemones, even when we consider them the same species. I'm sure your experiment is possible, and it should be an incredible display when you're done. I'd just keep an eye out for stress when two are close together, and obviously not clone mates.

 

[BonsaiNut]

My point was not to try to dissuade you from doing what you are doing - I think it will be cool. Just giving you a heads up. I read about non-clonal aggression in mags in a recent paper and it stuck in my head. If I can remember which paper it was I'll post a link here.

The mags I brought back from Tahiti were all from the same bommie where there was a group of seven or so in one big clump. I brought back four (?) of them? The problem I had was with size - they were so big I had to get the four smallest (which were still about 1' diameter).