ritteri success stories???

[EnderG60]

ive had mine for almost 2 years now and its doing very well.

Here is a crappy pic of it about 2 months ago.

and the owners

I have it in a 58g which has had pretty steady nitrates of 20-30 and not to much flow. It gets about 300gph from the return and ocasional sweeps from the maxijet 900 with a hyrdo on it.

Tank originally had a 250w SE xm 10k on it which the anenome loved, but when i switched to a 14k hamilton it started to wander.

I now have a 400w 20k xm and its been fine for the past 6 months, and just recently decided to move to the center of the tank, which i was expecting it to do since I got it. Bulb is a bit old which is what I suspect caused the move, but its happy now so ill hold off on a new bulb for a bit.

It has actually been a very good anenome, and ive had 3 different bubbles in the past(green, rose and quad) which were ok at best. Hell I stopped feeding this guy after 2 months because it was growing to fast.

I cant wait to get my 180 now so I can start feeding it again and get it nice and big

EDIT : yeah everything delphinus says is true, especially the wanting to be high up part.

Also I have been trying to figure out where the hell my nitrates are comming from for the past year...never did figure it out and just put on a coil denitrator. Never even considered it was the anemone.

any idea why it might cause this?

 

[sabodish]

you guys are great, thanks for all the info. i guess ill keep an eye out for one that comes in in great shape. this anemone seems to be one that you cannot buy unseen. maybe ill just try to find a super nice RBTA...which is always an impossible task.

 

[delphinus]

No idea why the high nitrates with mine, but it's just something I've noticed I get with it. Others with this species have noticed this too, but not everyone so it's hit and miss (I have a thread about this in here from about a month ago). I even have a sulfur denitrator on this tank, and it's incapable of reducing the nitrates below 30ppm. I thought it was because I fed the anemone generously but I've cut way way back and there's no difference. Well, I guess there's a difference, before I decided to really try to attack the nitrates in this tank, they would run as high as 80ppm. So I guess it's better, but still even 30ppm is far too high for a typical reef.

 

[Flighty]

A few interesting points- on the reef I saw them as deep as 80 ft (below the depth that you would see many acros) and also at a few meters where they would be out of the water at the lowest tides. In some places in the wild they were in very low flow and the tentacles were short(1-2 inches) and stuck straight up. In the strong current the tentacles were 5-6 inches long. Larger predators like stone fish and lions were often seen right next to the magnificas almost like that was their preferred hangout.

The more I work with these and see them the more I think they are pretty hearty, but usually sustain permanent damage from shipping that makes them more delicate or in most cases dooms them to death within a few months. This is even more incentive for some of us to work on propagating them. Smaller anemones might mean easier shipping and multiple generations would almost certainly mean heartier specimens.

 

[spsdude]

I purchased I magnifica thru a sponsor here. It has been two months now. My two true perculas are in heaven! They label it as a yellow tip---which indeed all the tips are yellow.

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9436375#post9436375 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spsdude
I purchased I magnifica thru a sponsor here. It has been two months now. My two true perculas are in heaven! They label it as a yellow tip---which indeed all the tips are yellow.

where did you get it?

 

[spsdude]

Live Aquaria. It was an awesome experience.

 

[ReefTeacher]

I have also had one for about 2 months now. I saw an amazingly healthy looking one at the LFS and picked it up. I had been reading and preparing for one for months. It goes through phases, where it looks health and eats for a week, then slumps over and I think it is on its way out. Next week healthy, plump and active again. I am very cautious as 2 months is a a very short time...but this has been a good week so right now I am optimistic!

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9444407#post9444407 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReefTeacher
I have also had one for about 2 months now. I saw an amazingly healthy looking one at the LFS and picked it up. I had been reading and preparing for one for months. It goes through phases, where it looks health and eats for a week, then slumps over and I think it is on its way out. Next week healthy, plump and active again. I am very cautious as 2 months is a a very short time...but this has been a good week so right now I am optimistic!

what size tank? lights? water parameter.

 

[ReefTeacher]

Tank is 45 gal...but established for 5 years so is very stable. 6 in deep sand bed. Two HOT skimmers, a BakPak and a Remora. I inject ozone in the BakPak about 5-10 mg/hr. Lighting is T5 about 240W 6 tubes: 2 6700K, 2 10 000K and 2 actinic. Alk about 4 meq, Ca2+ about 420ppm as per salifert. Nitrate under 5ppm and PO4 about 0.05ppm. The pH runs a little high usually about 8.5 I have WAY too many fish and therefore feed quite heavily. My sand bed serves me well and I have zillions of pods and worms after 5 years.

anything else?

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9450120#post9450120 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReefTeacher
Tank is 45 gal...but established for 5 years so is very stable. 6 in deep sand bed. Two HOT skimmers, a BakPak and a Remora. I inject ozone in the BakPak about 5-10 mg/hr. Lighting is T5 about 240W 6 tubes: 2 6700K, 2 10 000K and 2 actinic. Alk about 4 meq, Ca2+ about 420ppm as per salifert. Nitrate under 5ppm and PO4 about 0.05ppm. The pH runs a little high usually about 8.5 I have WAY too many fish and therefore feed quite heavily. My sand bed serves me well and I have zillions of pods and worms after 5 years.

anything else?

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

those 6700k t5s i think would help
and the fact that your tank old

Good luck with it and please post pics

 

[BMC]

You guys/gals are a great resource; thanks for all the tips. I guess I'm one of the lucky west coasters; I found a healthy one in a holding tank at my LFS and just couldn't resist the yellow tips (beautiful). He's on the move daily from the 2 X 250-14k. I only keep the wave maker on when I can moniter his movement.
Once he settles I'll post photos.

 

[maxxII]

Here is a thread which might help regarding H.magnifica and survival rates for newly shipped anemone's...

QT Procedures for Anemone's

My thoughts on this and experiances with it are on the thread...but long story short...I'm a big believer in Doxycycline for newly imported anemones...

I've had mine for 1 year as of 03-10-07. Its a smaller H.magnifica and not one of the gorgeous red or purple based ones....but I love it and so do my Onyx percs.


It sits under dual XM10K 250 watt bulbs in a 58 gallon tank. Circulation is provided by a Panworld 100PX-X through an OceansMotions 4 way HD unit. Its on the highest rock in the tank. I tried switching from AB10K DE's to Hamilton 14K DE's and the anemone started to move around....went back to 10K's and it quit wandering.

I ordered it online through www.phishybusiness.com

There is a local guy (to me) who has an H.mag he's kept for over 10 years. Its in a 180 gallon tank, under 250 watt MH's...he kept it for years under 175's....
This thing is litterally the size of a manhole cover... he feeds it a single whole cocktail shrimp a week.

Nick

 

[plancton]

I once got a healthy purple one, it would even grab and eat flake food at the LFS!. But it died in about 3 weeks in my tank, but at the time I had bad quality t5s and bad current.

The LFS owner is my friend and he is an expert and he is not a gold digger, so he is going to get my a new healthy one for my new 175gal.

I now have JBL t5 lighting, individual reflectors, and wavebox, I feel confident that if I get a healthy one, it will thrive!

 

[Pavlo]

I have had one for nearly 5 years, during which time it has split

It sits fairly low down on the rockwork where it gets the best flow.

Lighting is triple 250w 10K halides

Here is a recent picture. (credit to ~Tony~ for the photo).

 

[apayne]

maxxII, or any one else who may know,
Where do you buy Doxycycline.

Thanks,
Aaron

 

[maxxII]

You need a prescription from a vet for it. Used to be able to buy it at the LFS many years ago, but the FDA found out people were buying it for themselves cheaper than they could from pharmacies, so they regulated it. Now you need a prescription...

Nick

 

[andrewr]

or just find somebody with an STD and steal their doxy

 

[maxxII]

LOL....
After getting a RX for Interceptor to deal w/ red bugs for my acros...my vet just laughed when I asked him for the Doxycycline. He asked if I knew it was gonna be fulltime job when I got into this hobby...

Not a problem to get it from him, I'll be picking up some today just to have on hand.

Nick

 

[EnderG60]

so how is the Doxycycline supposed to help?

and mine is still going strong...even got a bit bigger and i had to move the green zoo's out of the way and i dont even feed the damn thing.