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[wicked_NaCl_h2o]

small purple LTA 1.5" got this in october 07


Now its about 12"

 

[garygb]

Salty, alot of folks ask about how to keep their LTA from moving. I had one for years that remained stationary in 6 inches of fine aragonite in a PVC pipe. Since you've had yours for 10+ years, just curious what you have learned and what you do to keep yours stationary.

 

[gspgretchen]

Its H. aurora found a pic doing google search that looks just like it.

 

[salty316]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12197162#post12197162 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by garygb
Salty, alot of folks ask about how to keep their LTA from moving. I had one for years that remained stationary in 6 inches of fine aragonite in a PVC pipe. Since you've had yours for 10+ years, just curious what you have learned and what you do to keep yours stationary.

If you look just under the front, you can see the PVC pipe that it's housed in. The pipe is 4" diameter x 5" long. I drilled holes in the bottom walls of the pipe so that rigid airline tubing could be inserted forming an X in the middle. Then placed eggcrate with fiberglass screen on top of the X. The sand in the pipe is aragonite that's just coarse enough not to pass through the screen. Plus I feed it alaskan bay petite shrimp from Red Lobster to keep it content to stay put as well.

 

[marc price]

gretchen, it looks small in the photo and i'm not convinced that it's H. aurora,
can you tell me the diameter of it's oral disc?
also what color is the column and can you post a pic of it's column?

 

[NCSUsalt]

hope you didn't pay 34 for it (what LTA are usually priced at Petco), it should have been marked 9.99. unfortunately it is extremely hard to get people who know stuff about saltwater to work for petco (so damn infuriating with some of their BS)


(I'm the saltwater guy at a petco)

 

[gspgretchen]

I paid 31.99, again I didnt think it was an LTA, but I couldn't let it die in there underlighted tank. It had been there 2 weeks. Also it it some much more active than my BTA it is fun to watch.

 

[marc price]

i stopped in a petco today and found a young LTA / 2"ø oral disc which had a degree of beading present on it's green tentacles. it has a uniform orange-red colored column. i've seen others in the past with lots more beading like the one pictured in Julian Sprungs book and like your anemone (you didn't answer my questions about it's size and column color).
below is the pic i snapped of it today. the beading doesn't show up well via the cell phone camera, looking more like slight dots and bands of shades of color change. you'll have to take my word for it. i'm not about to run back there with a better camera.

 

[gspgretchen]

It is diffenately H. Aurora.

 

[marc price]

...could be. ime they aren't as commonly found at lfs as lta's and young M. doreensis resembling H. aurora. i offered you another possibility. i didn't see it but can add that at a small size one way to tell the two apart would be by the presents of adhesive verrucae on the upper column of H. aurora. M. doreenisis has non-adhesive verrucae.
good luck with it.