mertens confirmation please.

[Winwood]

I hate you Jordan.

 

[Ron Popeil]

one serving of low quality camera phone pics....coming right up.

 

[Ron Popeil]

this anemone has settled immediately. It has not moved. I have it in a spot where it is hit every few seconds with a slight wave of water movement. i have fed it scallops twice, and plan to continue to feed it every few days to get it to put on size. currently a lone ocellaris sleeps in it wrapped up like a corn dog. i have it under some older T5 lamps, were it under a halide, im sure the color would be far more crisp and vibrant.

i hear many of you blew up a certain inbox of a certain anemone provider....let me know if you guys get a mertens of your own!

thanks for the help!

 

[deangelr]

How big is that thing? it looks so small, never seen one like that.

 

[M Woodhill]

with what do u guys distinguish mentensi, gigantea and haddoni in particular they r kinda stressed in lfs

 

[Ron Popeil]

this one is small. 3 inches or so. like a big ricordia.

 

[taylor t]

Wow, that thing is tiny! Great colors! Thanks for the pics.

 

[marc price]

so small, what a great find!

 

[marc price]

Update Please?

 

[Ron Popeil]

the mertens had been doing superbly. eating well. appearing to be growing. unfortunately its had a rough last few weeks. it moved itself deeper into this crevice, and became quite limp looking. it was around this time i had added a magnifica and small gigantae to the system, which ultimately perished. i am tempted to believe the same forces that were killing the two recent additions were passed onto the mertens and caused it to not do well. some sort of bacterial infection perhaps. the magnifica died failed first, followed by the gigantae...and then the mertens appeared to be limp and withdrawn.

as of last night however, the anemone has moved from its crevice and is moving back on top of the rock back into full light and flow.

my fingers are crossed it pulls itself together.

 

[BonsaiNut]

with what do u guys distinguish mentensi, gigantea and haddoni in particular they r kinda stressed in lfs

Sometimes you can tell just by glancing at them - when healthy their tentacles and oral disks look very different. But when bleached, or starving, or stressed, the only guaranteed way to tell them apart is to look at their column - particularly up beneath their oral disk. Their verrucae look very different (spots on their column).