Pink gigantea?

[OrionN]

Malu and Haddon stay on the sand bed, they won't walk unless there is bad condition. Crispa and Gigantea tend to stay on the rock near the sand and don't walk around much either. Happy anemone, other than BTA, tend to stay put,
Gigantea and Haddoni are known fish eater and danger to fish in the tank, Malu and Crispa are not a danger to fish.

 

[blackgate]

that is going to be a beautiful anemone!! please update with pictures if possible!

 

[AkoAung]

Malu and Haddon stay on the sand bed, they won't walk unless there is bad condition. Crispa and Gigantea tend to stay on the rock near the sand and don't walk around much either. Happy anemone, other than BTA, tend to stay put,
Gigantea and Haddoni are known fish eater and danger to fish in the tank, Malu and Crispa are not a danger to fish.

Awesome. I'll put one in a mixed reef. I guess it's a good thing it's not a gigantea.

 

[AkoAung]

that is going to be a beautiful anemone!! please update with pictures if possible!

thanks! I hope so! yes I'll give progress updates.

 

[AkoAung]

a bit of an update - the little OC I had with the nem seems to have some parasite on it as it started rubbing the sides so I moved him into QT. I have placed the nem into the main DT as of last night in a lowest flow area. As of this morning, it still has not attached itself to the sand nor the rocks. Any suggestions as to how to help it get sticking to one place? I fed it 2 days ago.

I do have a pair of white OC in there but these domesticated clowns have no idea what nems are. completely ignored the two nams I have in there.

 

[worm5406]

Any new pictures?

 

[AkoAung]

Hey worm, here's a pic as requested. I wasn't able to take a proper photo as my main computer that has the software to process RAW files has crashed. the photo is a bit washed out due to the blue actinic. the little nem still is purple (I thought it was pink lol).

I had placed it in the DT as mentioned earlier. It has two new residents in a pair of wyoming whites. and that pair has no idea what anemones are. and I have two hosting kinds in there.

but back to this little purple nem. I had placed it in the lowest flow area of the tank. It doesn't seem to be sticking to anything, except the bamboo stick I had used to gently guide it to the low flow spot. since it won't let go of the bamboo stick I'm leaving it in there till it lets go. otherwise, it seems fine, and poops a lot despite me not feeding it all the time. You can see some of it's black mess on the disc. It could be eating fish poop, or pods that are in the tank.

 

[worm5406]

The 'poo' is xooanthae That is not a good sign.

Is it feeding? If so what and how often?

 

[davocean]

That sure looks like a Malu to me.
What do you mean you have two hosting kinds in there, two nems or more than one pair of clowns?
That nem will want to be near an area where it can pull in and out of light as needed, and if more than one nem there is often chem warfare/allelopathy, make sure to run carbon.

 

[AkoAung]

The 'poo' is xooanthae That is not a good sign.

Is it feeding? If so what and how often?

yeah it wasn't quite open when I took that pic. the light just turned up then. it's not expelling zoox as I've seen what that looks like. just poo. I've been feeding it fish, marine pellets and mysis. it doesn't like food grade pieces of fish. feeding it once every three days.

 

[D-Nak]

it doesn't like food grade pieces of fish. feeding it once every three days.

I've never heard of or seen a nem refusing food grade fish. What were you trying to feed it? My nems eat mysis because it's what I feed my tank, along with a mix of other foods like Rods as well as flake. But they've never refused salmon, sushi grade tuna, scallops, or shrimp.

Also, I would guess it's a malu as well.

 

[AkoAung]

That sure looks like a Malu to me.
What do you mean you have two hosting kinds in there, two nems or more than one pair of clowns?
That nem will want to be near an area where it can pull in and out of light as needed, and if more than one nem there is often chem warfare/allelopathy, make sure to run carbon.

The other nem is a doreensis I believe. Do you think they will have chemical warfare? here's a pic of the other :

 

[davocean]

Yes that certainly looks like a doreensis.
Allelopathy is always possible when keeping multiple species, I don't like to do that myself these days, but in times when I did I ran carbon to be safe.

 

[davocean]

This was my Malu which looks pretty identical to yours.



This is that same Malu after I fed a reefers mix of seafood that contained silversides that I did not know of until it was too late.
I am NOT a fan of feeding silversides, I lost this malu and had a seperate species tank of LTA's that all dies after a silverside feeding, not sure why exactly, but I long ago stopped feeding them, and have not had issues since.
there are too many options that are much safer.

 

[AkoAung]

Yes that certainly looks like a doreensis.
Allelopathy is always possible when keeping multiple species, I don't like to do that myself these days, but in times when I did I ran carbon to be safe.

hmmm ok... I'll work on removing the doreensis to be safe. I'll introduce it to the wild OC in a separate tank once it's out of its QT.

 

[AkoAung]

This was my Malu which looks pretty identical to yours.



This is that same Malu after I fed a reefers mix of seafood that contained silversides that I did not know of until it was too late.
I am NOT a fan of feeding silversides, I lost this malu and had a seperate species tank of LTA's that all dies after a silverside feeding, not sure why exactly, but I long ago stopped feeding them, and have not had issues since.
there are too many options that are much safer.

That's a purty malu. sorry to hear about that. and thanks for the warning. I will stay away from silversides. Have you heard of other people's nems dying from silverside feedings? I'll double check foods I got. that's pretty strange.

 

[AkoAung]

By the way Daveocean, how did you get those captive bred clowns to be hosted by the nems? My captive breds have no clue.

 

[davocean]

By the way Daveocean, how did you get those captive bred clowns to be hosted by the nems? My captive breds have no clue.

They definitely prefer a natural host nem species, but they can be fooled a little if tentacle length is longer.
They hated my hadonni I'll tell you that, 4 months and nothing, my mag took all of one day.
They took to my LTA's, Malu's, and BTA's, but it did take a bit longer.
There are a number of people that had bad exp w/ silversides.
I used to be one to argue this, until I had a species tank of LTA's that all 3 just curled up and died after a feeding, just like that, watched it happen.

 

[D-Nak]

By the way Daveocean, how did you get those captive bred clowns to be hosted by the nems? My captive breds have no clue.

It doesn't matter if they're captive bred. They're attracted to their host nem via their innate sense of smell. Think a cat and catnip.

 

[davocean]

It doesn't matter if they're captive bred. They're attracted to their host nem via their innate sense of smell. Think a cat and catnip.

Agree, or how dogs still walk in circles to "lay down the grass" before they lay down.
Captive bred or WC, makes no difference, and while many will accept nems that are not natural hosts, they will usually accept a natural faster, even if they have never seen one.