Hi everybody,
I am new here but I have keep aquarium for ever. I stared with salt water aquarium back in 1980. Clownfish and Anemone was my first love. I killed my first anemone (and the tank raised Ocellaris) way back in 1980. There were not a lot of information back then. I did not buy another anemone until 1997. In the between time, I keep various types of salt water fish. Prior to keep a reef tank in 1997, I have keep semi-reef tank with reverse flow under-gravel filter. Keep Caulerpa algae and various fish. I did not keep full blown reef tank until 1997.
After all these times, I am still attached and love clownfish, especially A. percula, and Anemones. I have a small collections of Anemones under my care, from a S. gigantea that is 12 years in captivity (most of these time under the care of another reefer) to a Red Haddoni that I have own for the last few weeks. The anemone that under my direct care the longest is a Green H. malu, going on 9 years.
The following are soem of the pictures of some of my anemones
Green H. malu. With a Snowflake A. ocellaris
Purple H. malu. This particular Malu was lost in a tank crack. The purple one is the female and the green is the male. I got them to spawn and got fertilized eggs inside the Purple Malu but my tank crack right after that and I lost the female. I have try to spawn them ever since but so far not able to locate another female. I got two Male Malu at this time. H. malu sexually reproduce by internal fertilization and release fully formed babies anemones but the mother. I think we can raise these guy in captivity. You can see the fertilized eggs insider the purple Malu tentacles. It is really too bad that I lost this anemone, or else we/I would be so far ahead in sexually reproduce H. malu
Another species that reproduced by internal fertilization and release fully formed babies is S. gigantea. Over the last three years, I was able to collected three specimen of this species. One multicolor, one Purple and one green. The green Gigantea hav ea lot characteristic of Haddoni carpet and I am thinking that It could be a hybrid Gigantea/Haddoni. I am putting a large tank together and see if I can get them to spawn. Will see what I will get out of these.
Multicolor Gigantea, I got this one about 12 months. Initially he was tiny and bleached but with good care he is quite a looker
Initial picture of the multicolor Gigantea
Current picture
Initial picture of the purple anemone
Current picture of the purple Gigantea
Pictures of the green Gigantea. This anemone have been in captivity for 11 or 12 years. He does have characteristic of Haddoni but clearly is a Gigantea. The Gigantea in the back is the Multicolor Gigantea before I move him to higher light.
I have keep Magnifica in the past but right now I do not have one. I also have several Haddoni carpets. Here are their pictures
Blue Haddoni
Green Haddoni
Red Haddoni
I also raise some baby clownfish Here are the Onyx babies
And the SnowOnyx
I am new here but I have keep aquarium for ever. I stared with salt water aquarium back in 1980. Clownfish and Anemone was my first love. I killed my first anemone (and the tank raised Ocellaris) way back in 1980. There were not a lot of information back then. I did not buy another anemone until 1997. In the between time, I keep various types of salt water fish. Prior to keep a reef tank in 1997, I have keep semi-reef tank with reverse flow under-gravel filter. Keep Caulerpa algae and various fish. I did not keep full blown reef tank until 1997.
After all these times, I am still attached and love clownfish, especially A. percula, and Anemones. I have a small collections of Anemones under my care, from a S. gigantea that is 12 years in captivity (most of these time under the care of another reefer) to a Red Haddoni that I have own for the last few weeks. The anemone that under my direct care the longest is a Green H. malu, going on 9 years.
The following are soem of the pictures of some of my anemones
Green H. malu. With a Snowflake A. ocellaris
Purple H. malu. This particular Malu was lost in a tank crack. The purple one is the female and the green is the male. I got them to spawn and got fertilized eggs inside the Purple Malu but my tank crack right after that and I lost the female. I have try to spawn them ever since but so far not able to locate another female. I got two Male Malu at this time. H. malu sexually reproduce by internal fertilization and release fully formed babies anemones but the mother. I think we can raise these guy in captivity. You can see the fertilized eggs insider the purple Malu tentacles. It is really too bad that I lost this anemone, or else we/I would be so far ahead in sexually reproduce H. malu
Another species that reproduced by internal fertilization and release fully formed babies is S. gigantea. Over the last three years, I was able to collected three specimen of this species. One multicolor, one Purple and one green. The green Gigantea hav ea lot characteristic of Haddoni carpet and I am thinking that It could be a hybrid Gigantea/Haddoni. I am putting a large tank together and see if I can get them to spawn. Will see what I will get out of these.
Multicolor Gigantea, I got this one about 12 months. Initially he was tiny and bleached but with good care he is quite a looker
Initial picture of the multicolor Gigantea
Current picture
Initial picture of the purple anemone
Current picture of the purple Gigantea
Pictures of the green Gigantea. This anemone have been in captivity for 11 or 12 years. He does have characteristic of Haddoni but clearly is a Gigantea. The Gigantea in the back is the Multicolor Gigantea before I move him to higher light.
I have keep Magnifica in the past but right now I do not have one. I also have several Haddoni carpets. Here are their pictures
Blue Haddoni
Green Haddoni
Red Haddoni
I also raise some baby clownfish Here are the Onyx babies
And the SnowOnyx
