Heteractis magnifica--All colors

[Clownreef]

It grabbed on immediately after a 2 hour drip acclimation. I’m a bit concerned at the mouth but it’s hanging on to that rock. Hasn’t moved.

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

It grabbed on immediately after a 2 hour drip acclimation. I’m a bit concerned at the mouth but it’s hanging on to that rock. Hasn’t moved.

It looks good. Give it a day to settle and the mouth will be normal and it will open completely.

 

[Clownreef]

It looks good. Give it a day to settle and the mouth will be normal and it will open completely.

It’s absolutely beautiful just hanging on its rock. Seems to like the flow a lot.

 

[xiongsy]

They are fed strategically. I keep water parameters at natural saltwater levels as best I can, this includes Iodine which I consider critical! ICP testing is crucial for accurate Iodine dosing. I use ESV brand 5% Iodide for dosing. Iodine levels are very important and impactful to bacterial popopulations.

What is your recommended Iodine levels or where do you keep your Iodine levels at?

 

[PacificEastAquaculture]

What is your recommended Iodine levels or where do you keep your Iodine levels at?

About 60 ug/L

 

[Clownreef]

Three days in. Hasn’t moved from the exact spot I put it. High on a rock getting tons of light and flow.

 

[Clownreef]

How are your magnificas doing??

 

[OrionN]

All settle in. Morning shot as the light come up.

 

[Clownreef]

Can the magnifica pros chime in on behavior? Mine deflates once a day. It just deflated and pooped a big poop..lol..

Mouth is normal, hasn't moved, loves the spot. Seems like they behave way different that E. quadricolor which I have 4 of.

Current situation..lol

 

[tchan]

My 1st magnifica is still hanging on. Deflated from time to time. Mostly for a period of 1-3 hours. Sometimes once a day, or once every other day. I think it’s adapting my water conditions. Obviously we all have different water parameters. Hopefully after a month or two it will stop.

I love the anemone so much I bought 2 more after that. They also deflated from times too. I do inspect the nems for tissue healths. All looks good. I’ll just leave them alone for now.
The only difference from my anemones to PEAs is the colors. Dr macs seems to have more brighter tips. Probably it’s his lighting are more natural. I used all leds, radion blue and or3 bars. Here’s the nems in order of purchase.

 

[Clownreef]

Absolute stunners!

i just got home from work. It’s now full and happy,. They’re such weird animals lol

 

[OrionN]

They are very sensitive to pH spike. So if you add Kalk or Sodium bicarbonate need to add it slow.
Healthy Magnifica rarely deflates. It can contracted when feeding or at night but not all flabby and tentacles flat deflated.
Good luck with your anemones.

 

[Clownreef]

Eating some krill this morning. I noticed they don’t like a ton of flow when trying to keep a hold of their meal. Turned pumps down, and it chowed down. I’m not going to target feed too often. How often do you guys feed you’re?

I love this beauty!

 

[Cali9dub]

it’s been 25 days so far and mine is doing very well. Went through a period of localized deflation. It also did a little bit of moving but has stayed put the past few days. I had a clogged drain while at work and my ATO dumped a bit of fresh water in. After that the Ritteri was not happy and deflated for almost an entire day while I slowly raised the salinity over the course of 2 days. It did another deflation but other than that it has stayed tight lipped. I have been keeping a close eye and it definitely acts a tad different than the first Ritteri I had about 7 years ago. No doubt it’s quite healthy or I believe the fresh water dump would have done him in. I’m waiting to see if it will ball up at night like my previous one !

 

[Claybird1985]

Well guys mine are all still alive. Just like everyone else mine deflate for a few hours, purge the doodoo, then come back to action. My violet-tipped green actually officially split around 10 days ago... i let the new splits try to ride and heal but they stayed deflated three days too long and werent attempting to heal their split, so off to hospital & cipro they went:

Day 6 treatment now and they look excellent and seem to be healing:

And the four in the 65 have stopped moving around and found a nice spot. Periodic deflating, purging and inflating but they look really nice otherwise:

And the money shot (taken before they all stopped wandering) There are three here all fighting for the same rock real-estate and the clown took advantage of the photo op!:

Clayton

 

[Cali9dub]

It’s a shade over a month and this guy is pretty settled in. No more moving and haven’t seen any localized deflation spots in several days.

 

[Claybird1985]

It’s a shade over a month and this guy is pretty settled in. No more moving and haven’t seen any localized deflation spots in several days.

Awesome,

You feeding it anything yet?
Just curious about where your no3/po4 levels are at?

Mine are all OK. Need to move the last split green back to tank here.. waiting for split foot to close up some more. Looks like it'll be fine though. Pic here was several days ago of the two (now one remaining, bottom right on glass) in HT:

The rest in the 65g are good for the most part i reckon; some local deflating here and there but always followed by mouth poop purging then back to glory a cpl hrs later.

One yellow nem has been moving a couple inches here and there and back for some reason the last 36 hrs.. maybe a little bit of water parameter fluctuations making them a little irritated. Had temp issues last week with radions warming the water way too much due to the old solid acrylic top. That has been remedied.
Salinity issues (ato still not set up, hand watering atm), undetectable no3/po4 (hanna HR-no3 and hanna ulr/ppb-po4, feeding more now the 2 clowns, 1 yellow watchman, 2 fire shrimp), alk probably around 6.5dkh (not regularly testing or adjusting yet, apex & trident still in box for this system)..
Basically taking these guys for the ride of their lives...

Plan is to tie this system into the 50g lowboy frag tank next to it, hook up the neptune stuff and get this whole system more stable...its coming and would help the mags out I'd imagine. Risking my no-tech husbandry skills I've learned using all-tech on my 310 system with these $$$ nems!
But for now they're alive and doing presumably well.

Anyway

Thanks for the update !

Clayton

 

[Cali9dub]

Awesome,

You feeding it anything yet?
Just curious about where your no3/po4 levels are at?

Mine are all OK. Need to move the last split green back to tank here.. waiting for split foot to close up some more. Looks like it'll be fine though. Pic here was several days ago of the two (now one remaining, bottom right on glass) in HT:

The rest in the 65g are good for the most part i reckon; some local deflating here and there but always followed by mouth poop purging then back to glory a cpl hrs later.

One yellow nem has been moving a couple inches here and there and back for some reason the last 36 hrs.. maybe a little bit of water parameter fluctuations making them a little irritated. Had temp issues last week with radions warming the water way too much due to the old solid acrylic top. That has been remedied.
Salinity issues (ato still not set up, hand watering atm), undetectable no3/po4 (hanna HR-no3 and hanna ulr/ppb-po4, feeding more now the 2 clowns, 1 yellow watchman, 2 fire shrimp), alk probably around 6.5dkh (not regularly testing or adjusting yet, apex & trident still in box for this system)..
Basically taking these guys for the ride of their lives...

Plan is to tie this system into the 50g lowboy frag tank next to it, hook up the neptune stuff and get this whole system more stable...its coming and would help the mags out I'd imagine. Risking my no-tech husbandry skills I've learned using all-tech on my 310 system with these $$$ nems!
But for now they're alive and doing presumably well.

Anyway

Thanks for the update !

Clayton

I am doing my no3/po4/mag testing on Wednesday. I’ll see where it’s currently at then. My alk is a bit high at 10.5, but I’ve added about 10 sps recently so I expect it to slowly drop on its own. I like it closer to 8.5. Once it hits the 8.5 area that’s where I will keep it. I’ve been slowly bringing it down from 11.5. So about 1.0/month…got a couple more to go to get it where I’ll keep it.
I feed mine quite often. I’d say about every 3rd day or so. LRS chunky fish frenzy with a couple drops of selcon and a couple drops of vita-Chem or I’ll feed some thawed mysis soaked in the selcon/vita-Chem as well. I used to always feed my old one some small diced salmon with some selcon maybe once a month when it got to the size I wanted. I’d like this one to get in the 12-15” range before I really cut back on the feedings. I have it under a GHL mitras 7206 running an AB+ spectrum and a Kessil A350 pointed right at it (about 10” above it) running full blast/whitest setting.

 

[OrionN]

Mine is doing great too. It looks identical to the one of @Claybird1985 that split. Looking at them side by side they looks identical. I guess the clone that Clayton and I have is a splitting capable clones.

 

[Clownreef]

Same! I’ve been feeling mine large pieces of krill. Here you can see it chowing. Also a picture of one of my 4 bubble tips.