Stumbling onto a Beauty

[Reefvette]

Last Sunday i went to go grab a sps frag from my local store I took a walk over to the anemone tank naturally because im always looking for a beauty.

My gigantea was sold to me by another reefer but what i saw amazed me.

A purple base green tentacles and a mouth that looked like a nipple. Id like to introduce you to my new Magnifica. They are on opposite ends of my tank and to tell you the truth this is the first anemone i am going to show pictures now instead of waiting to see if it makes it. Its sticky and it grabebd some mysis when i fed my clowns this am. My male akinydos slept in it last night for about three hours.

Well see how it goes im nervous but excited i stumbled upon it.

Also after seeing the purple base version and the verracruce i am thinking the gigantea and the magifica are maybe cross breeds or something

Here it goes

 

[apayne]

Very nice, I hope he does well for you!!!
Aaron

 

[Gig 'em]

nice, good luck

 

[traveller7]

Classic H. magnifica, I would not suspect any cross breeding or hybridization in the pictured specimen.

Heteractis species have verrucae, it is one of the ID characteristics. In H. magnifica, color of verrucae matches the column, but darker. If yours was a red base, they would be dark red/maroon. Green, dark green, etc.

Color of the oral disk, mouth, varies, in H. magnifica although most of mine have had green or yellow highlights.

Best of luck with it, it looks pretty darn good now.

 

[Reefvette]

update

update

So far so good, mouth is still tight hasn't shrunk down yet, it looks preety good.

I wanna feed it but I don't wanna stress it out.

As of now my clowns have not wondered over to sleep in it.

 

[WrinkleFreeZone]

If you want to feed it, consider giving it some mysis shrimp. It looks pretty big, but smaller foodstuff may work out for you. Good luck with a nice find.
-B

 

[Reefvette]

Funny Thing you brought up mysis

Funny Thing you brought up mysis

I dont feed any of my fish or nems silver sides anymore. Too many bad expierences. This morning 15 balled up mysis enriched with selcon right down the hatch watch this for time lapse eating.

Travelr - I mean many many thousand of years about some type of anemone cross bred with gigantea to create magnifica or some cross breed. I never noticed the verracruce was as defined as my gigantea.

Picture Update(Eating Sequence)
Pre Eating

Just grabbed food

Expansion of stomach to eat

Almost Done

Done and back to Normal

Mouth is back to being tight and no signs of stress

So far so good im a very happy camper

 

[tufacody]

Please keep us posted. I've had two mags that looked incredible for the first 30 days and then went downhill for unknown reasons.
I'm not ready to try them again. I wish you the best.

 

[garygb]

Very nice anemone you found. Looks like you got a very healthy one. I think that is the key with this species--and of course good husbandry thereafter. For it to eat so soon after purchase indicates it has already acclimated for you. It took mine a week or more to accept food. Good luck and enjoy it!

 

[redfishsc]

Very pretty, hope he stays well and lives well for you.

I also hope you don't have many other things in that tank with him, I believe the H. magnifica's have a reputation for going on a road trip and leaving a path of devastation behind them.

 

[Indymann99]

Reefvette

"I dont feed any of my fish or nems silver sides anymore. Too many bad expierences."

Would you mind elaborating on the issue with silver sides? I am currently feeding my GBTA a 1/4 silverside every 2-3 days, it also gets occasional flake and mysis but not much.

Thanks

 

[idareefer]

I feed mine a silverside every two weeks or so, loves them, and he's going on 10 years plus with me now

 

[BigJay]

The color is fantastic, that's a great find.

Thank you very much for sharing with us.

 

[Reefvette]

Silversides

Silversides

Do a search on RC alot of people complain about them.

I fed a couple small chuncks of silversides to a couple clone bubble tips two years ago and they both got very messed. It looked as if they were disinegrating from the inside and the area around the mouth was breaking apart. I moved them to qt left them alone.

Both had scars in the area of their mouths where the skin broke down but they both lived.

This Magnifica anemone is doing well so far still tight mouthed and it ate a 3 centimeter peice of thawed rods food today again. \


Its def lookin good

 

[Reefvette]

Update

Update

Looking good and mouth is tight. More pics from today. Looking even better by the way Im going to pick up some llive rock this weekend and see if i can build pedestal for it in the from middle of my tank.

 

[Reefvette]

Excrement

Excrement

It has offcially taken the longest P**p i have even seen.

No i didnt take pics i tryed. Its been about an two hours and i thinks its crapping everyhting ive fed it.

Its actually starting to close back up now.

 

[Reefvette]

New Pics

New Pics

New Pics

 

[rob1991]

wwooaahhh that thing looks huge

 

[GSMguy]

nice

 

[Reefvette]

Its been pretty good so far

Its been pretty good so far

Its eats everything.

Anyone have any other addivtives besides selcon that i can try to boost its food nutrition.