Ron Popeils Anemone Reproduction System!

[Ron Popeil]

the last tier of the system houses several clowns and anemones. as well as a number of miscellaneous frags and such.

there is a lone female yellow tail chrysopterus. i tried to pair her with a little juvenile but she would have none of him. i tried again with a juvenile white tail, she nearly killed him as well. so...she gets to hang out with a lone black ocellaris.



she has a wavy midbar on one side of her body, brilliant yellow orange fins that this picture really isnt showing.

next door is a pair of yellow tail chrysopterus. the interesting difference between this female and the other is that she is much more dark. the fins are much darker as well as the body, but the blue bands are far more vibrant than the other female.




the male has been doing lots of aggressive cleaning in the last few weeks

 

[Ron Popeil]

the last section houses my prized species that eventually will have their own system. any guesses to what species?





they live in a heteractis malu anemone, which is good because the female really gives the tiny male a beating when she catches him.



in the same little section i also have an empty and lonely s. gigantae. not pretty as everyone elses as of late, and frankly im surprised its alive with so many other species in the same system, but one day it will be huge and lovely.




so there you have it.

clowns:
akindynos
chrysopterus white tail
chrysopterus yellow tail
ocellaris
chrysogaster

anemones:
LTA
BTA
mertensii
malu
gigantae
aiptasia


bubble algae, bryopsis and aiptasia are rampant in some of the systems and i will eventually QT some fish/inverts to take care of them. but with so many fish in one system, i hesitate about adding anything that could possibly introduce any sort of disease. so, in the meantime they are all removed manually.

i run UV, a tiny calcium reactor and biopellets in addition to feeding as much food as i can every day to these fish to fatten them up and hopefully get them spawning as soon as possible.

thanks for looking!

 

[Winwood]

Love the update!

 

[Winwood]

Oh and the last pair is blacker ice clowns right?

 

[OrionN]

Great updat.
I also find that Gigantea, Malu and BTA do well together with no problem of chemical war. As long as they not touching they are fine. Maxi Mini, Mini Mini and Micro Mini are all in this system also and all doing fine.

 

[worm5406]

So... no anemone reproduction yet... Or did I read we are now switched to prize clownfish holding, with a touch of lets see what the anemones do on the side?

I still want to make a LARGE (20'x20') wade pool with anemones and either natural sunlight or artificial. But again.. price IS an issue there.

 

[Greg 45]

How are the mertens doing
They seem to take a while to color up
The one's that come in bleached seem to do very well

 

[ezhoops]

Everything looks great.... Making me very jealous...especially because i am currently clown less at the moment

 

[OrionN]

Ron,<O</O
Very few people have anemone addiction to the degree of you and me. At least my disease is limited to anemones, it does not really extended to clownfish like your's.

 

[Greg 45]

Orion make that three people
System is now over 1000 gallons
anemone list
Mertens to many to list assorted colors
Hadoni red,s green,s
Gigantea 2 at this time green
Purple base mag's 2
purple long tenticals

 

[OrionN]

My total volume is over 1000 soon. Red, Green, Blue Haddoni. Malu X2 Purple and green, Purple, Green and tan/multicolor Gigantea Carpets. Muliple Maxi mini, Mini Mini, and Micro Mini. a few BTA. I am hunting for Magnifca once I have the tank space, a Purple H. crispa and possible Purple LTA (maybe)

 

[Pinkskunk]

Hi Ron

can you give us updates on how the Mertens react in this system? i am cusious how the mags or the mertens would get along in the same system...

thanks.

- mertens, like the haddonis ive had in the past, react negatively to magnificas. the mertens, though bleached, was doing great for the several weeks i had it. i decided to move over two of my largest and nonfavorite magnificas over to the system and get them prepped for their cuttings. almost immediately, the mertens began to deflate. the magnificas were placed in the smaller cubes down below under the 175w halide. they too seemed to not expand as large as they had under my 400w halides in my main system. but they never deflated.
the mertens would continue to go through periods of deflation, inflation, mouth open, mouth tight. but it never appeared to be dying. its been two months now and while the mertens has not regained zooxanthellae or increased in size, its never continued to decline like a dying anemone. just a steady phase of looking awful and fine, it just wont give up. i moved it over to my main system to see if it would improve. although it also has three other magnificas and a crispa in it. we'll see.

 

[Reefvette]

Mertens

Mertens

Magnifica and Mertens dont mix. Every time i have tried this they have both reacted badly and gone on moving streaks.

I am guessing since they are some of the larger hosting anemones, they dont like neighbors.

 

[Pinkskunk]

Greg ,

is all that tied to 1 system?

Orion make that three people
System is now over 1000 gallons
anemone list
Mertens to many to list assorted colors
Hadoni red,s green,s
Gigantea 2 at this time green
Purple base mag's 2
purple long tenticals

 

[Pinkskunk]

how about mag and gigs?

:lol2:

Magnifica and Mertens dont mix. Every time i have tried this they have both reacted badly and gone on moving streaks.

I am guessing since they are some of the larger hosting anemones, they dont like neighbors.

 

[Ron Popeil]

pinkskunk, that mertens never seemed to do well. it never deflated, but it never was sticky, it never regained any zooxanthellae. so it was rehoused in a friends tank to see if his water conditions could improve the anemone....unfortunately it never did.

as of today here are the following anemones being housed in this system:

entacmaea quadricolor
stichodactyla gigantea
stichodactyla mertensii
heteractis malu
heteractis magnifica
macrodactyla doreensis

 

[OrionN]

all in the same system
Any carbon?

 

[Pinkskunk]

an interesting mixture of these 2 species in the same system.....

thanks for the info.

pinkskunk, that mertens never seemed to do well. it never deflated, but it never was sticky, it never regained any zooxanthellae. so it was rehoused in a friends tank to see if his water conditions could improve the anemone....unfortunately it never did.

as of today here are the following anemones being housed in this system:

entacmaea quadricolor
stichodactyla gigantea
stichodactyla mertensii
heteractis malu
heteractis magnifica
macrodactyla doreensis

 

[Ron Popeil]

all in the same system, no carbon.

to be fair though, the magnifica has only been in the system for just over a week.

 

[Siapin]

Is carbon bad for nems?

What's the significance in no carbon system?