Magenta Magnifica
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sonofgaladriel
Shiny!
I'd be happy to fork out $80 for a healthy mag right now.
I can seriously tell that I'm desiring these magnifica all too much! Last night I had a dream that I walked into a local fish store and they had dozens of large healthy magnifica of all the various colors, even red and magent based! I walked around the many tanks filled with them and got so excited as I watched them move back and forth in the current. I was giddy as a school boy on Christmas morning!
I picked out 4 or 5 of the most beautiful specimens to take home and was ready to fork out the credit card, but, when I asked them to bag 'em up, none of them were for sale!
I felt my chest sink and I woke up......depressed.
I'm going through serious magnifica withdrawal!
I can't find any here in town! I had a large blue base coming in today, but I was just called and told they left it off the shipping list
I can seriously tell that I'm desiring these magnifica all too much! Last night I had a dream that I walked into a local fish store and they had dozens of large healthy magnifica of all the various colors, even red and magent based! I walked around the many tanks filled with them and got so excited as I watched them move back and forth in the current. I was giddy as a school boy on Christmas morning!
I picked out 4 or 5 of the most beautiful specimens to take home and was ready to fork out the credit card, but, when I asked them to bag 'em up, none of them were for sale!
I felt my chest sink and I woke up......depressed.
I'm going through serious magnifica withdrawal!
I can't find any here in town! I had a large blue base coming in today, but I was just called and told they left it off the shipping list
Flighty
Premium Member
Ooooo, I was hoping to hear from someone who got one of the "siblings" of my anemone.
I'm trying to get any more info that I can about the source of the anemone. I know the fella who transshipped them.
As far as have heard, they are from the area around Madagascar. That would make me guess that they live with a little higher salinity and temp in the range of reef tanks. I keep my salinity at 1.0265 or so and my temp is about 79.5 this time of the year (although a heater programing error on my part already put this guy through a drop to 75 and up to 81 a few weeks ago. I didn't see any signs of stress through that.)
This is just a guess with these specific anemones, but the white tips make me think they were in shallower higher light water and the tips will probably go away for us. I don't know how fast the length of tentacles changes, but mine had very short tentacles for a magnifica which makes me think it came from a lower flow area. I have mine directly under a 250 DE MH 10,000k bulb and in indirect random flow from a tunze 6100.
I'm trying to get any more info that I can about the source of the anemone. I know the fella who transshipped them.
As far as have heard, they are from the area around Madagascar. That would make me guess that they live with a little higher salinity and temp in the range of reef tanks. I keep my salinity at 1.0265 or so and my temp is about 79.5 this time of the year (although a heater programing error on my part already put this guy through a drop to 75 and up to 81 a few weeks ago. I didn't see any signs of stress through that.)
This is just a guess with these specific anemones, but the white tips make me think they were in shallower higher light water and the tips will probably go away for us. I don't know how fast the length of tentacles changes, but mine had very short tentacles for a magnifica which makes me think it came from a lower flow area. I have mine directly under a 250 DE MH 10,000k bulb and in indirect random flow from a tunze 6100.
sonofgaladriel
Shiny!
Have your friend 'tranship' a few of these to me, will ya! 
Thanks for sharing your specific tank info with us. Hopefully, origin locale and specific tank info sharing like this will allow more of us to keep these beauties long term.
Thanks for sharing your specific tank info with us. Hopefully, origin locale and specific tank info sharing like this will allow more of us to keep these beauties long term.
anemoneguy
Member
i will get some pics this weekend. i have not had good luck posting pics. i may need to email to someone to post for me if anyone would. i do hope the tips dont change color or at least stay a different color. i saw one of theese last year at a high end lfs and it was more brown with white tips, but it was under 65k lighting only. very healthy, and he had had it for a good while, and of course when i was ready to try it someone took it home first. so ive been looking hard for a year now. so im excited and worried at the same time. wish me luck.
anemoneguy
Member
thats a good question. seems to ring true.
sonofgaladriel
Shiny!
anemoneguy- I'd be happy to post pics for you on my photobucket account.
I definately think they are seasonal at least for the most part. None were available all Winter, now they seem to be popping back up.
I definately think they are seasonal at least for the most part. None were available all Winter, now they seem to be popping back up.
elegance coral
They call me EC
I'm just guessing, but they may have a quota on the number of mags that can be collected in a years time. Especially if most of them come from the same country. This could explain why we see them in sperts.
elegance coral
They call me EC
How well does your Mag and Xena get along? I had to move all the Xena away from my Mag because he wouldn't fully open up in the areas where there were Xena.
Flighty
Premium Member
I have never noticed a problem with the xenia, but I try to trim it and limit the contact. I have had a magnifica kill a branch of the nepthia overnight though. They don't seem quite as bad on sps as I would expect. I do have a big water volume to help mitigate any chem warfare so YMMV.
elegance coral
They call me EC
Excuse my ignorance, but what does YMMV stand for?
elegance coral
They call me EC
LOL. I would have never figured that out.
sonofgaladriel
Shiny!
I may have one of these beautiful magenta based, AND a blue based mag coming in later this afternoon!
Keeping fingers crossed! I'll post pics if they come in.
Keeping fingers crossed! I'll post pics if they come in.
