Sebae health???

[Bmore88]

Hello All,
I got this Sebae on Friday in hopes of it an my Maroon Clown being friends. However, since he has been in he has not left the back, and has yet to "fill" up and get as big as he was in the store. His foot still has a good color and is sticking to the rock. Water params are great.

Think he needs more time to get comfortable?

 

[ThRoewer]

I can't find a sebae in the picture.
Also, for a maroon I would get a BTA since it is their natural host.

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[Bmore88]

..the bright geen in the center of the frame. Or are you insinuating that it was not as the lfs advertised and rather is a diff type of nem?

 

[ThRoewer]

That looks more like BTA to me on the phone screen. If it's a BTA you got the right anemone for your fish.

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[ThRoewer]

BTW: sebae anemones (H. crispa) is never green. They only come in shades of tan to brown with more or less purple tips. Some are almost completely purple.

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[Bmore88]

thanks.. I thought it was a bta but the guy told me at the store because it had purple tips it was a sebae.. Either way... you think it will open in time?

 

[ThRoewer]

Hard to tell from that picture.

 

[Bmore88]

Ill try to get a better one tomorrow when I cut the powerheads off... Thanks Roewer

 

[zooman72]

BTW: sebae anemones (H. crispa) is never green. They only come in shades of tan to brown with more or less purple tips. Some are almost completely purple.

I would hesitate to say "never" - Ron Shimek's Marine Invertebrates Guide shows one on page 90 (T.F.H. Pocket Expert Guide series); Joyce Wilkerson's Clownfishes shows a pale green one on page 39, noting that they are occasionally "green or pinkish white"; and Scott Michael's Damselfishes & Anemonefishes (from his Reef Fishes Series) shows one on page 170 (might be same animal and skunk clowns from Shimek's photo, although the picture is not exactly the same???), and he also notes that they can be green...