Heteractis magnifica--All colors

[Seancj]

I sure hope not! All my other Magnifica look great. I monitor the tank often ( several times per day), and will act accordingly should I see any signs of decline on any other nems.

 

[OrionN]

I hope the rest of your beautiful Magnifica will be fine. Good luck

 

[New&no clue]

I sure hope not! All my other Magnifica look great. I monitor the tank often ( several times per day), and will act accordingly should I see any signs of decline on any other nems.

How does the other one that you got look?

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

 

[Cali9dub]

Day 9 of mine. It has localized occasional deflation (areas maybe the size of a quarter) that lasts about 20 seconds or so…other than that here is mine so far :

 

[hobbyreefer]

Mine arrived looking very healthy. This is day two. I way underestimated the size! Hard to get a decent pic/video based on the location.

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

I really like this. Is this how you would recommend someone setting up a nem tank? with a lot of stacked rocks with bunches of nooks and crannies for them to hide in and not necessarily a sandbed? My tank is a nem tank..but it is set up more in line with what someone would expect for a LPS/SPS set up.

 

[krak256]

Mine arrived looking very healthy. This is day two. I way underestimated the size! Hard to get a decent pic/video based on the location.

Which color did you get?

 

[hobbyreefer]

Which color did you get?

Green tip - yellow base.

 

[tchan]

My nem is still hanging on. I probably can’t take it out for treatment cause the base are grab on tight to the rock. And I have never do any treatments to my fishes or corals. I did fed the nem salmon the past 2 days. It respond pretty well. Here’s some pictures of the mouth and the trunk. Also added a pair of clowns to relax the nem. Hope it pulls through.

 

[tchan]

Those clowns keep poking at the mouth of the nem last night. Don’t know if they are trying to grab some bites of the salmon or cleaning? Happens after the nem completely swallows the salmon.

 

[Ben Pedersen]

I'm considering purchasing one of these anemones. What is the best protocol for acclimating? Should I turn down the lights for the first few days?

 

[OrionN]

I never acclimate Magnifica or coral with regard to light. I just put them where I think they get the light they need.

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

Sunrise at Pacific East Aquaculture

These are such beautiful creatures! I'm still in awe even after 50+ years in the hobby!

They're healthy and gorgeous!

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

 

[Claybird1985]

I sure hope not! All my other Magnifica look great. I monitor the tank often ( several times per day), and will act accordingly should I see any signs of decline on any other nems.

Which one did you lose Sean?

 

[Claybird1985]

Well I have been busy not only chasing all these sticky suckers around their little house but with work also. Note to self: never order six Magnifica at one time unless at the beginning of a month-long vacation.

So first two came Tuesday 4/4. Purple tipped and a lemon-lime tipped. The lemon-lime is doing great and is (the center yellow) in the 65g with the other three. Not once has it deflated or gaped. The purple tipped however arrived seemingly nice but within 1.5 days crawled up the glass and started some really weird stress / splitting deal. It did try to split and was just acting nuts, inflating, deflating, splitting some more, healing, splitting. So after 8 days (Wednesday 4/12) I moved it (and new lem lime tipped) to HT with Cipro regiment. It is now looking tons better after two+ days in there.

happy lemon:

Hospital tank currently (with first round purple and second round lemon):

This shot was just taken. They are both looking good.


Second batch came 4/11. Two violet tipped green, one lemon tipped, one pearl tipped green. This lemon tipped came gaping and deflated.

It puffed up a little bit after a few hours and crawled up to a rock but still looked sad. This was the only of 6 that didn't plant foot right as it landed on rock upon arrival. This lemon tipped was moved to HT on Wednesday (along with the Purple tipped). It is now looking great after the 2+ days in cipro so far (pic farther above). The green pearl tipped hasn't missed a beat. It has crawled all over the place, saying hi to everyone and rubbing all over up on everything. Super nice, no deflation or gape.
The violet tipped guys both look nice but have gone through momentary deflations and gaping but then come back looking good within a few minutes.

One of these violet tipped (far left on its own rock) will be going out to a friend driving 120 miles up in a few days (and I'm sure he will be posting pics of it on this thread once it is settled in ). He is an expert so I am not concerned about this one so much. The violet tipped green ( on the right between pearl and happy yellow) that is staying is big... 12+"!

I am keeping a watchful eye on it and if needed it will go into HT for a cipro run. I will wait til said friend comes to retrieve his and will advise me on what to do with this one-- whether it stays or goes to HT.

So far nothing has been fed to any of them other than any pieces of mysis that have landed on them during clownfish feeding.
As Im writing this the left violet tipped deflated and gaped but is already coming back to looking great. Again we are keeping an eye on the violet tipped ones.

Five minutes before:

We will see!

Over all I am batsh** crazy to try this harem out but like my other tanks I'm in over my head. So why not keep up the madness I say? I am new to nems; waited 3.5 years for the right time to keep Mags and here we are. Maybe I will move one of these to my 310 but I still have several acro colonies to frag and move to frag tank before I risk exposing them to one of these coral terminators that quite entertainingly have a mind of their own.

I'd also like to thank Mac & Rachel at PEA for their excellent customer service, patience with me during this whole process, shipping carefulness, and for making happen these seldom-seen critters available to us. They are definitely tricky !

Will update soon!

Clayton

 

[Cell]

So that's where they all went...

 

[Ben Pedersen]

Mine arrived looking very healthy. This is day two. I way underestimated the size! Hard to get a decent pic/video based on the location.

That is a lot of flow! Is that how much they want?

 

[krak256]

So that's where they all went...

Haha I was eyeing one and then by the end of the day a whole bunch were gone. Now we know why.