Show off your sebae please.

[maxxII]

Nick, IMO, you have a H. malu instead of H. crispa. The tentacles count is much smaller and the tentacles are longer in the outer and shorter in the inner tentacles.

I agree. He's also had the anemone for over four years, and it's only a little over six inches. Crispa would be much larger in that amount of time. Even if it did start out in bad shape. I'd like to see the column/pedal disk. My money is on a small pedal disk, and thin column.

Hey guys,

It was sold to me by Diver's Den as an H.crispa....not that they havent goofed up on anemone ID's before...

I thought it was an H.malu early on and posted pics up on this thread:

H.crispa vs H.malu and it was tentatively ID'd as being an H.crispa....

So I've referred to it as an H.crispa ever since.....I dont have anything invested in it being an H.crispa or an H.malu so either way, I'm fine with it as I like the anemone.

ETA- its foot is not attached to the bottom of the tank, but rather wraps around underneath the rock to its right and is attached to that.

Nick

 

[davocean]

^^ The malu has become my favorite nem for a mixed reef, stays smallish at about 10" max compared to my crispa that took up 2' plus a good buffer zone area, sand dwellar, so even if it moves destruction is minimal, and the colors are very bright.

 

[elegance coral]

Hey guys,

It was sold to me by Diver's Den as an H.crispa....not that they havent goofed up on anemone ID's before...

I thought it was an H.malu early on and posted pics up on this thread:

H.crispa vs H.malu and it was tentatively ID'd as being an H.crispa....

So I've referred to it as an H.crispa ever since.....I dont have anything invested in it being an H.crispa or an H.malu so either way, I'm fine with it as I like the anemone.

ETA- its foot is not attached to the bottom of the tank, but rather wraps around underneath the rock to its right and is attached to that.

Nick

Wow man....... I really don't know what to say. In the old thread, the anemone was stressed, but it appeared to have thick leathery tissue and a fat column like cripa. It also has traits that suggest malu. With the number of anemones we see that seem to have traits of both species, even when healthy, I wouldn't be surprised if these species were hybridizing.

 

[maxxII]

Its got a solid, thick column, has visible verrucae all about the underside of the oral disc, and has random orange sploches on the column as well, (barely visible in the pics from the old thread).

Its had some serious clownfish occupying it and stealing food from it since pretty much the minute I got it. I assumed that was part of the reason it grew so slowly....
It does have different sized tentacles on the oral disc at the moment, but they are newly formed, so I'm not suprised. Otherwise, the tentacles are about the same in overall length.

On the other side, clowns, (Percs, and A.leaucocranos) have preferred both my H.magnifica and a purple M.doreensis to it. Expressed no interest in E.quads in the same tank. I assumed the preference for the M.doreensis was to that anemone being a good 9 plus inches across to the H.crispa/malu being only 4 inches across at the time. The clowns being hosted in another anemone across the tank did not prevent them from crusing over and stealing food from the H.whateveritis....

I dont know. Like I said, I'm not emotionally invested in it being an H.crispa or an H.malu...its one or the other and I like it regardless. H.malu is sort of a feather in the cap since they are harder to keep. H.crispa is a natural host for clownfish. Currently, this nem is hosting a single porcelein crab so its really a moot point.

I'd like to know what it is exactly, but dont care which it really is.

Nick

 

[maxxII]

When I get a chance, I will try to take some recent and better more detailed pics of the anemone.

Nick

 

[david_lee]

not the best picture but heres mine:

 

[maxxII]

More detailed pics of the H.whateveritis...

From the begining

03-21-07

Underside showing orange splotches on column

Top down

Craptastic shots from today using a point and shoot camera. I'm right handed and was holding the rock & anemone up with the right, while attempting to take pics with the left....sorry.

Starting to get annoyed at being upside down and moved around.

These most recent pics are far from good and might actually hinder and ID more than anything else...having said that, if someone does know if this is either an H.crispa or is in fact an H.malu, I'd love to know.

Nick

 

[OrionN]

Nick,
That look like a Malu to me. The column looks like a Malu but a recent picture of the healthy anemone would help confirm it.

 

[OrionN]

I just went back and look at the pictures you posted earlier. It is a Malu for sure, no doubt at all.

 

[maxxII]

Okay,

H.malu it is.....

Thanks Minh!

Nick

 

[fdonophan]

My new Sebae. How do I tell if it is Malu or Crispa?

The pictures aren't too great, sorry. It's more of a cream than a white, but it needs to color up some still.

Here's a pic for size reference. I have the lights off on his side of the tank until he settles in for a while.

 

[Wistler]

Here a couple of pics of our Sebae nem, just a week after being in the tank.
The female has taken up sleeping in the nem and resting there during the day.

Our clowns ignored the green BTA for a month and it disappeared for 2 weeks in the rocks. It extended every day and seemed healthy, so I guess he was just chilling in the shade.

Today the green BTA has popped out in a new location and is fully extended and looks better than ever.

My LFS has a bigger white anemone, and I am thinking of trading the sebae in for the bigger one.

 

[Toddrtrex]

My new Sebae. How do I tell if it is Malu or Crispa?

It is an H. crispa

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My LFS has a bigger white anemone, and I am thinking of trading the sebae in for the bigger one.

I wouldn't -- when it comes to hosting anemones, white = bleached, keep the healthy one that you currently have, there is no guarantee that the bleached one will recover.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Here's my H. crispa from 2008 in my 120. Note also the unusual situation of how close the spawning pair of pink skunks in it are to the spawning pair of ocellaris clowns (at left). They got along that way for years until I lost the crispa not long after trying to add a carpet anemone.

 

[Winwood]

Here's my H. crispa from 2008 in my 120. Note also the unusual situation of how close the spawning pair of pink skunks in it are to the spawning pair of ocellaris clowns (at left). They got along that way for years until I lost the crispa not long after trying to add a carpet anemone.

Stunning specimen Randy!

 

[davocean]

^^ Nice pic RHF, and that seems to be one of the rare exceptions I see now and then on having more than one pair in a tank, occs and pinks, and once or twice I've seen percs and pinks, though no matter what it is still a gamble mixing clowns and mixing nem species for that matter.
I'm a amazed they were both spawning and getting along, especially so close.

 

[davocean]

My LFS has a bigger white anemone, and I am thinking of trading the sebae in for the bigger one.

I wouldn't trade a healthy nem in for a bleached one either, believe me, it will grow, and in a 90g w/ a BTA and a Crispa it won't be long before you are chock full of nem to the point of rearranging things to keep from stinging.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Stunning specimen Randy!
Nice pic RHF


Thanks, folks.

 

[Rippinfrags]

Here is a couple pictures of my Purple and Green H. Malu, still learning how to take pictures:

Close Up:

Laying Flat:

 

[rockytop47]

Here's my Sebae, sorry for the photobucket link, my laptop doesnt load pics very well.

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