OrionN
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[FONT="]Hi everybody,
I am a member here at RC forever but never have a thread about my anemones. Well here is the thread.
I started with salt water aquarium back in 1980 and have keep and breed fish as long as I can remember from Guppies when I was 5 or 6 and Beta fighting fish as a teenager. Clownfish and Anemone were my first salt water love. I killed my first anemone (and the tank raised Ocellaris) way back in 1980. There was not a lot of information back then. I did not buy another anemone until 1997. In the between time, I keep various types of salt water fishtank. Prior to keep a reef tank in 1997, I have keep semi-reef tank with reverse flow under-gravel filter. Keep Caulerpa algae and various fish. I did not keep full blown reef tank until 1997.
After all these years, I am still attached and love clownfish, especially A. percula, and host anemones. I have a small collections of anemones under my care, from a S. gigantea that is 12 years in captivity (most of these time under the care of another reefer) to a red S. haddoni that I have own for the last few weeks. The anemone that under my direct care the longest is a green H. malu, going on 9 years.
H. malu
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Purlpe tip Malu and the green Malu, both are males
Female purple Malu
[/FONT][FONT="]This particular Malu was lost in a tank crack. The purple one is the female and the green is the male. I got them to spawn and got fertilized eggs inside the Purple Malu but my tank crack right after that and I lost the female. I have try to spawn them ever since but so far not able to locate another female. I got two male Malus at this time. H. malu sexually reproduce by internal fertilization and release fully formed babies anemones by the mother. I think we can raise these guy in captivity. You can see the fertilized eggs insider the purple Malu tentacles. They were moving independently inside the mother when I took these pictures. It is really too bad that I lost this anemone, or else we/I would be so far ahead in sexually reproduce H. malu[/FONT]<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]-->. Also below is a picture of the male Malu spew out sperms.
S. gigantea
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <wunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <wontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]-->[FONT="]Another species that reproduced by internal fertilization and release fully formed babies is S. gigantea. Over the last three years, I was able to collected three specimen of this species. One multicolor, one purple and one green. My green Gigantea have a lot characteristic of Haddoni carpet and I am thinking that it could be a hybrid Gigantea/Haddoni. I am putting a large tank together and see if I can get them to spawn. Will see what I will get out of these.
Multicolor Gigantea, I got this one about 12 months. Initially he was tiny and bleached but with good care he is quite a looker
Initial multicolor Gigantea
Current picture of the Multicolor Gigantea
Purple Gigantea new
Current picture
Green Gigantea
Don't have a picture other than in my computer will add later
H. magnifica
I have had multiple Magnifica in the past. I think I was the first to document splitting of Magnifica on line here at RC but at this time I have no Magnifica.
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I am a member here at RC forever but never have a thread about my anemones. Well here is the thread.
I started with salt water aquarium back in 1980 and have keep and breed fish as long as I can remember from Guppies when I was 5 or 6 and Beta fighting fish as a teenager. Clownfish and Anemone were my first salt water love. I killed my first anemone (and the tank raised Ocellaris) way back in 1980. There was not a lot of information back then. I did not buy another anemone until 1997. In the between time, I keep various types of salt water fishtank. Prior to keep a reef tank in 1997, I have keep semi-reef tank with reverse flow under-gravel filter. Keep Caulerpa algae and various fish. I did not keep full blown reef tank until 1997.
After all these years, I am still attached and love clownfish, especially A. percula, and host anemones. I have a small collections of anemones under my care, from a S. gigantea that is 12 years in captivity (most of these time under the care of another reefer) to a red S. haddoni that I have own for the last few weeks. The anemone that under my direct care the longest is a green H. malu, going on 9 years.
H. malu
[/FONT]<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w
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Female purple Malu
[/FONT][FONT="]This particular Malu was lost in a tank crack. The purple one is the female and the green is the male. I got them to spawn and got fertilized eggs inside the Purple Malu but my tank crack right after that and I lost the female. I have try to spawn them ever since but so far not able to locate another female. I got two male Malus at this time. H. malu sexually reproduce by internal fertilization and release fully formed babies anemones by the mother. I think we can raise these guy in captivity. You can see the fertilized eggs insider the purple Malu tentacles. They were moving independently inside the mother when I took these pictures. It is really too bad that I lost this anemone, or else we/I would be so far ahead in sexually reproduce H. malu[/FONT]<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]-->. Also below is a picture of the male Malu spew out sperms.
S. gigantea
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w
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Initial multicolor Gigantea
Current picture of the Multicolor Gigantea
Purple Gigantea new
Current picture
Green Gigantea
Don't have a picture other than in my computer will add later
H. magnifica
I have had multiple Magnifica in the past. I think I was the first to document splitting of Magnifica on line here at RC but at this time I have no Magnifica.
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