My new merten's?
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Gary Majchrzak
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no doubt here about the anemone being a Merten's....
phender
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The spots on the column are often a reddish purple(magenta) on mertens whereas the gigantea normally has bluish purple spots. The spots are way to dense and extend too far down to be a gigantea.
I don't know why the spots don't go all the way to the foot. Hopefully it's just a local color variation and not a sign of poor health.
The small one I have took a turn for the worst when I increased the light in its tank several months ago. I have not been able to turn it around. I was finally able to remove it from the tank and try a different situation, but it may be too far gone. I noticed that most of the color on its column has faded out.
I don't know why the spots don't go all the way to the foot. Hopefully it's just a local color variation and not a sign of poor health.
The small one I have took a turn for the worst when I increased the light in its tank several months ago. I have not been able to turn it around. I was finally able to remove it from the tank and try a different situation, but it may be too far gone. I noticed that most of the color on its column has faded out.
illcssd
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Update!
Update!
Just a picture up date on my mertenssi anemone:
It is doing great, eating very well, hosting both my clowns, it actually moved down a little bit to an area of less flow/light, partially shaded by a green monti-cap colony, that was right after i got it and hasent moved since...Anyways, here are pics. Sorry about the quality, im no photographer...
Update!
Just a picture up date on my mertenssi anemone:
It is doing great, eating very well, hosting both my clowns, it actually moved down a little bit to an area of less flow/light, partially shaded by a green monti-cap colony, that was right after i got it and hasent moved since...Anyways, here are pics. Sorry about the quality, im no photographer...
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
looking good austin. any full tank shots?
illcssd
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Wow, didnt noticed you posted till just now jordan, i would have a fts, but this is the thing.
Under a terrible mishap of events a bit earlier this month, my house got "something" in it. That apparently wasnt good for any of my aquariums. Because i came home from work and had gasping fish laying on the sand, and all my corals and inverts looked terrible. Worst of all, my 5yr old magnifica. Which no matter how many water changes i tried and how much carbon i ran, i lost two days later. IT was terrible, but i was not going to lose anything else if i could help it. So after the water changes, my 60 still had nothing in it that was really looking good, and my 29 had recovered as it seemed way better than the 60 has of yet. So i moved my mertenssi and all his tankmates, which was just two clowns and a few corals. Now he is in my 29 temporarily which i basically lost all the inhabitants anyways when my magnifica died. So its not much to look at after all this.
I currently have most the rock from the 60 in a bucket with carbon trying to rid it of whatever is in there. Just in case.
Thats my story.
The mertenssi is doing fine on a good note though. I move the two rocks he was attached to in the other aquarium to the 29 to try and help him not be stressed out. It worked apparently because he is absolutely fine except a little wandering.
A couple pictures in a second.
Under a terrible mishap of events a bit earlier this month, my house got "something" in it. That apparently wasnt good for any of my aquariums. Because i came home from work and had gasping fish laying on the sand, and all my corals and inverts looked terrible. Worst of all, my 5yr old magnifica. Which no matter how many water changes i tried and how much carbon i ran, i lost two days later. IT was terrible, but i was not going to lose anything else if i could help it. So after the water changes, my 60 still had nothing in it that was really looking good, and my 29 had recovered as it seemed way better than the 60 has of yet. So i moved my mertenssi and all his tankmates, which was just two clowns and a few corals. Now he is in my 29 temporarily which i basically lost all the inhabitants anyways when my magnifica died. So its not much to look at after all this.
I currently have most the rock from the 60 in a bucket with carbon trying to rid it of whatever is in there. Just in case.
Thats my story.
The mertenssi is doing fine on a good note though. I move the two rocks he was attached to in the other aquarium to the 29 to try and help him not be stressed out. It worked apparently because he is absolutely fine except a little wandering.
A couple pictures in a second.
Ron Popeil
Love them clownfish.
wow austin, sorry to hear that. especially about the magnifica, i know very well how hard those are to come by (in health, and especially healthy and colorful). hope things have smoothed out since, has the mertens grown? have you talked to patrick since about any others?
illcssd
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The merten's has grown about and inch i believe, i have to turn All the flow off to get him to fully expand, otherwise he just does the roll thing you see in the pictures.
If you hear of any healthy magnifica's in the next couple months lmk.
Patrick has asked his supplier(s). Since they had no idea what they sent in the first place he said it will be hard. But i have been visiting almost every shipment day and checking out the underside looking for one lol. I will let you know. If he or anyone else local get's one I'll find it lol. He also said he would keep a lookout now that i informed him of the difference between merten's and haddoni.
Austin
If you hear of any healthy magnifica's in the next couple months lmk.
Patrick has asked his supplier(s). Since they had no idea what they sent in the first place he said it will be hard. But i have been visiting almost every shipment day and checking out the underside looking for one lol. I will let you know. If he or anyone else local get's one I'll find it lol. He also said he would keep a lookout now that i informed him of the difference between merten's and haddoni.
Austin
illcssd
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Yea, thats the thing, what exactly happened. I have no idea, before things were dead the water tested fine for all the thigns i could test for, except ph was low; In both aquariums. supposedly they were spraying something gross or toxic in the field behind my house one of the neighbors said but its seroiusly hard for me to believe that got in my house. Thats my only guess as of now though...
Thanks for sharing your anemone progression, and it is too bad what happened. Is it still doing well? It looks OK on the above pics.
I think Mertensii is much tougher than other anemone. Mine been through an incident where a care taker accidentally added one gallon of white vinegar to the tank. Good luck.
I think Mertensii is much tougher than other anemone. Mine been through an incident where a care taker accidentally added one gallon of white vinegar to the tank. Good luck.
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