Should I pass?

First, I want to commend you on posting the pic and asking the question before bringing the animal home. We don't see this to often.
It will be challenging to pull that anemone through. The color looks good, but it is deflated. If it looked worse before, it's probably cycling. Inflated. deflated, inflated, deflated............. Such anemones need perfect conditions to survive. With the anemone being that dark, it will be very sensitive to bright lighting. I wouldn't advise anyone but an experienced anemone keeper to attempt such an anemone.
 
+1 x 1,000 Too many people leap and then ask questions just as they're about to land in an empty pool. As I'm constantly learning myself, patience is a virtue that is eventually rewarded, especially in aquarium-keeping.
 
Depends on how confident you are in your tank.. saving an anemone from sure death at the LFS can be rewarding
 
Also did you download the photobucket app for the iphone? I have it and it makes posting pics with the phone very easy..
 
Cycling is a bad sign generally. It's not unusual for an anemone to cycle some while acclimating, but the less it does the better the prognosis.
 
If giganteas and maxima clams can be kept successfully under LEDs, unless yours aren't especially strong, I expect a mag would do fine under them. They do fine under other high intensity lighting such as MH and T-5s.
 
Got home and I can use my computer now as long as I don't get a stupid wicked busy




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I see quadracolor and crucifer in the tank with the magnifica. Are there any other anemones in this system? If they aren't taking very good care of this system, allelopathy could explain why the mag is acting up. I doubt they run carbon.
 
There's also four huge damsels that pick at everything that's not doing good. I saw one when they first got it nipping at the insides of the magnifica. Not sure if they run carbon on this system. I didn't see anything else in there other than what you mentioned. I thought about that as well, but didn't want to take the chance of purchasing it and then it dying and being out $90. I believe I could sustain it, but bringing it back to life in the condition it's in I'm not so sure about. I don't know how sensitive these anemones are. I know they're supposed to be one of the most difficult anemones to keep though. Might swing by tomorrow and snap a pic and see how it looks, although I don't know if one day will make a difference.
 
That's down at Seascape, right? If it's their usual nem tank in back the nem may get worse by staying there. There's not near enough flow and no rock for it to set on. It will likely be stressed every moment it's in there. Just my 2 cents.
 
Yeah, it's seascape. I saw that, all they have is the return pipe for flow and the lighting was pretty high up for how deep the tank is. Maybe if they're willing to reduce the price of it I'll take it. I just don't think it's worth it if it ends up not recuperating. Maybe buy it cheap now and if it survives, pay the rest later! :lol: Wishful thinking
 
LOL yea if that's how this worked I'd have their "strawberry (some word I forgot) anemone" AKA Heteractis Aurora. It was bleached but for half price I've been kinda looking for one and I woulda chanced it. But not at full price I'm already helping 4 other nems recover as is.

If you end up getting I'd love to get a chance to check it out sometime. Never seen a H. Magnifica in person and won't likely get by there this week.
 
It's all good, I'll pm you my number and you can text me anytime to swing by and check out my tank, with or without a nem :lol: I'll see if I can talk them down in price tomorrow, but we'll see how it's holding up. I'd hate to be responsible for the death of it and then it nuking my system if it goes bad and I'm not at home since I usually am gone 10 hours of the day which is pretty much the whole time of my light cycle.
 
bradleym said:
That's down at Seascape, right? If it's their usual nem tank in back the nem may get worse by staying there. There's not near enough flow and no rock for it to set on. It will likely be stressed every moment it's in there. Just my 2 cents.
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Mine gapes its mouth if there isn't enough flow(maybe to help increase surface area for diffusion??). If you prepared enough random flow for it in your tank the nem could turn around.
 
elegance coral said:
I see quadracolor and crucifer in the tank with the magnifica. Are there any other anemones in this system? If they aren't taking very good care of this system, allelopathy could explain why the mag is acting up. I doubt they run carbon.
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I am the store owner. The nem is doing better every day. We added a gentle flow with a 1400gph Koralia to that system. We have several that we move from tank to tank. There is a 6 lamp 54W T-5 fixture above that tank which is on the low side but we just replaced bulbs 2 weeks ago.

We do run a large fluidized carbon reactor and GFO in that system as well as a UV sterilizer. We also do a 20% waterchange each week in addition to the replacement water from selling out of the tank. All is logged in a notebook and verified by one of our 3 degreed biologists or our chemist. We far exceed the requirements of MAC certification and in the long run it is not expensive but it is labor intensive. We have had documented instore death rates under 2% last June and July.

Please do not assume LFS are harming these animals. If I didnt care, I would not have spent all of New Years eve in the store after a freak tornado took out power. Insurance would have taken care of everything.

This is not an advertisement but defending my store reputation. If the post is deemed commercial then please delete all references to my store as well.

Joe Faszl
A different kind of LFS owner.
 
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