Show off your sebae please.

no its a sabae brow i will post a pic of the foot it looks lie a lta but it is not i have had him for 8 pluss years i am not new at this he has yellow tips a tan base with small bumps.i have a lta also it is different,i will post pics of the base i no its hard to tell but its a sabae.here is a pic of the base to show to you.i also hate just calling them all sabae i stiil have a bebate weather malu or or crispa but the tips are yellow.when i got him he had stubby *** tentacles they grew long over time.
 
Here is my h. crispa, I've had it for 9 years. It hosted a pair of breeding gold bar maroons for a few years until I lost them when a heater broke and electcuted all the fish. It has been hosting a pair of breeding ocellaris since 2006. The tank is 3ft across so I would guess it is nearly a foot across. When I got it, it was bleached (and tiny) but quickly recovered with feedings. I initially fed it silversides and whole krill, but now it just catches what it can when I feed the tank a frozen mix, multiple times a day. Sometimes I do target feed it with a direct squirt of the mix with a turkey baster.
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Can someone advise how long they have been able to keep a sebae alive in their tank? I have a local reefkeeper who has a 340 gallon tank, as well as several others. He has bread clowns in the past and said that no matter what he or any of his friends did, the sebae never lived longer than 8 months in a home aquarium.

Please note that this person has a well established tank and background, and grows and sells corals costing into the thousands of dollars, so its not a matter of his parameters.

I was thinking of getting a sebae and trading in my BTA.

i have had mine for 8 pluss years
 
Thanks. Get them off of the wall is easy with a credit card. That is my source for fish money. I am about to bring 10 Xenia starts to the LFS.
 
i feed my zena to my sabae he eats everything he even ate a dwarf lion fish and a huge sandsifting star.some crazy poop came out i didnt feed him the star or lion they met there own fate somehow at night
 
H.crispas are really nice! are they harder to keep than the BTA's and Maxi Minis? Only I have ever tried and had great success. And yea that wall of Xenia is nuts! Your tank wall must look like its breathing!
 
sqwat, the pics of the column lend additional support to ECs identification of Macrodactyla doreensis. The spotted verrucae are typical of M. doreensis (LTA).
 
no its a sabae brow i will post a pic of the foot it looks lie a lta but it is not i have had him for 8 pluss years i am not new at this he has yellow tips a tan base with small bumps.i have a lta also it is different,i will post pics of the base i no its hard to tell but its a sabae.here is a pic of the base to show to you.i also hate just calling them all sabae i stiil have a bebate weather malu or or crispa but the tips are yellow.when i got him he had stubby *** tentacles they grew long over time.

That is a M. doreensis column and verrucae. A very beautiful, and healthy looking M. doreensis too.
 
Can someone advise how long they have been able to keep a sebae alive in their tank? I have a local reefkeeper who has a 340 gallon tank, as well as several others. He has bread clowns in the past and said that no matter what he or any of his friends did, the sebae never lived longer than 8 months in a home aquarium.

Please note that this person has a well established tank and background, and grows and sells corals costing into the thousands of dollars, so its not a matter of his parameters.

I was thinking of getting a sebae and trading in my BTA.

I've had this H.crispa since 8-13-2007, so...4 years & 3 months.

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Its sharing a 58 gallon tank with an H.magnifica I've had for a little over a year. The H.crispa was very small, less than 2.5 inches in diameter, and had very short nubby tentacles. Its taken along time to get it to its current size of about 6.25 inches in diameter. Its currently hosting a small porcelein crab.

Nick
 
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.
 
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.
 
Here is two pics of mine. First one is three years ago and the second is a year ago. It is now white with purple tips. I will get a new one later.
 

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maybe you have to come see my nem in person it is sabae.they have the bumbs on a cream colored foot not a orange foot like a lta.i will get better pics when i get a good camera.i wish it was a lta to stay smaller but he is not there is allot of differences.it is exactly like spartman 22 when i got him just smaller tentacles.they both share veracue on the column or foot but the crispa has cream colored and lta is red or orange.
 
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