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AliKat
11/23/2009, 08:13 PM
I am going to get my picassos a Ritteri. I've had them before and kept them successfully in a smaller tank, and now that I have a 125 I want to give them a go again.

From those of you who have had them, what do you think is the prettiest color? I'm going to have my LFS order one for me, so I can choose the color.

Also, if you have pics of yours, please post them to help me decide. Thanks!

OrionN
11/23/2009, 08:36 PM
Orange with yellow tip
http://home.grandecom.net/~mnguyen/IMG_0911.jpg

Red base with white/purple eye tip
http://home.grandecom.net/~mnguyen/IMG_1065.jpg

I am getting a tank to put both of them together

clowns101
11/23/2009, 08:52 PM
IMO,I like the yellows and the tan,brown based ritteri!I like the bright color but like to see a more natural color every now in then!Sorry I dont have any pics.I moved it and "I"
killed it.

OrionN
11/23/2009, 09:21 PM
I can tell you that I like both about the same. Certainly dark red is a natural color, very vivid for H. magnifica. One thing about H. magnifica is that it will display his column prominently and always in good view. I hope I have a male and a female.

Perc25
11/24/2009, 12:01 PM
Very nice nems, I really like that red based one.

ocello
11/24/2009, 07:41 PM
I like a bright reddish purple.

montipora80
11/24/2009, 07:52 PM
I like a bright reddish purple.

I agree the redish one looks really nice and with the colors of the clown that would be a site to see please post pics when you deside and get it!!!

elegance coral
11/24/2009, 07:58 PM
They are all beautiful. I've had red and purple. I don't know which one I like the best. Here's a couple of pic's of a purple one.
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/3783/sn851491editedis7.jpg

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1773/sn851924editedrr3.jpg

clowns101
11/24/2009, 08:01 PM
Very nice pics elegance coral!

AliKat
12/15/2009, 09:14 PM
Still haven't decided. LOL

Keep those pics coming if you have them! I think I'm leaning towards red, although I'm told that yellow is easier to find right now.

OrionN
12/15/2009, 09:20 PM
How about a healthy one. They are difficult to find healthy as is. It took me years to find mine. Unless you live in a large west coast city, it will be difficult to find a healthy one.

jefferino
12/16/2009, 05:18 PM
The yellow and purple is beautiful.

Magga Pie
12/16/2009, 07:51 PM
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u73/TWK_2007/100_1770.jpg
Heres mine it has a tan base

tufacody
12/16/2009, 07:51 PM
Any healthy magnifica is a BEAUTIFUL magnifica!

Reefvette
12/16/2009, 09:06 PM
Its severly bleached but its eats everything i give it.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s234/ClownBailey24/IMG_2778.jpg

Quickcord
12/16/2009, 09:13 PM
Good luck with it Reefvette.

Quickcord

OrionN
12/16/2009, 09:36 PM
Try to feed it food with a piece of tentacle of another Magnifica (or even another species of anemone that is not bleached) IMO, it cannot hurt but may help your anemone recover.

dalston
12/16/2009, 11:18 PM
Any healthy magnifica is a BEAUTIFUL magnifica!

X a billion!

mobert
12/17/2009, 12:39 AM
Mine is the same color as Orion's:

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w228/mliusion/IMG_5991.jpg

Here is a YouTube video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9STLnRQd_U

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JoshPremierAuto
12/17/2009, 12:31 PM
Any suggestion on a good online source for a nice Magnifica?

Pinkskunk
12/17/2009, 12:39 PM
Hi Minh

Do you still have them both?

Nice Rits BTW!

OrionN
12/17/2009, 03:34 PM
I still have them both. Hope to put them in the same tank in the near future. These multiple smaller tanks are lots of work.

Pinkskunk
12/17/2009, 04:53 PM
why do you keep them seperated? to prevent chemical war or just space restraint?

OrionN
12/17/2009, 05:28 PM
why do you keep them seperated? to prevent chemical war or just space restraint?
I don't think chemical war is something that is real. Anemones are difficult to keep and when one died, the reefer tend to look for things to blame it on since they are perfect and could not have killed the anemone because their system cannot be any healthier.
IMO, release toxin into the ocean is like spitting into the win, it just hurt the one who spitted. Nature is anything but dumb. These compex toxin are expensive for the organism to produce and it just make no sense to dump it into the water. If the two anemones touching each other, that is a different story.

I put each in their tiny tank, 24 g and 30 g. They are getting bigger now and difficult to keep them from getting to the side of the tank. I am setting up a 30X30X25 for both of them together. I just don't have a tank running that is big enough for both of them. My largest tank have 16 inches Gigantea and a BTA in it so it is out of the question. I used to have the Red magnifica in the 58 g tank, but when the Gigantea arrived, it get the big one and delegate the Magnifica in the smaller one. This is OK for the Magnifica, but I am taken care of 4 tanks at the same time and it is just too much for me. I need to get back down to one or two.

gholtmeyer
12/19/2009, 05:00 PM
Orange with yellow tip
http://home.grandecom.net/~mnguyen/IMG_0911.jpg


wow, that baby is sweet! Fantastic color. Just think how cool a pair of black/white percs would look in that bright yellow. Mind if I ask where you got it? or where is a good online source for healthy/colorful magnifica/ritteri?

rssjsb
12/19/2009, 07:45 PM
Try to feed it food with a piece of tentacle of another Magnifica (or even another species of anemone that is not bleached) IMO, it cannot hurt but may help your anemone recover.I'm interested in hearing more about this. Can you elaborate?

AliKat
12/19/2009, 08:31 PM
Man! Now I'm wishing I had held out for a Magnifica instead of the "sebae" I got today...

OrionN
12/19/2009, 08:44 PM
I'm interested in hearing more about this. Can you elaborate?
Essentially you do a zooxanthellae transplant. Let a bleached anemone ingested some zooxanthellae in hope it will take and start a new population in it's tissue. Several people did this and it seem that their anemone recovered was jump-started with this process. I don't have any airtight documentation but it make sense to me and it just cannot hurt

rssjsb
12/20/2009, 11:24 AM
Interesting. I just never heard of it before.

davocean
12/20/2009, 12:16 PM
I don't think chemical war is something that is real.

This statement I have to disagree with.
I did notice my nems reacting differently to each other on first intro(crispa and doreensis)
However, I do think they either adapt or relax if not bothered/disturbed.
I do however run carbon regardless for insured safety.
Now, I have to add to this that I also noticed a big difference in reaction to my adding of ricordia's.
This is when my sebae of 5.5 years suddenly began to move, and my LTA seemed less vibrant/healthy.
Also, my maroon clown just hated these more than any other corals placed near.
She would beat rics so they were in center of tank at farthest point from both nems(my nems were bookends)
The difference in her reaction to rics was dramatic, to the point I figured she smelled/sensed something I could not.

phender
12/20/2009, 01:30 PM
This is the coolest Mag I have ever seen. This was taken from a video(not mine) that was taken at the Marshall Islands.

clowns101
12/20/2009, 02:06 PM
Wow...dont see a Magnifica like very often.

JPMagyar
12/20/2009, 03:49 PM
8 years, 3 splits, and still goin' :dance:

Can't fit the mother colony in my display tank, but this clone is doin' fine as are the two others at Greenwich Aquaria, and having seen all the color variations I admit to being partial to the pale purple like mine :p


JP

Jadran
12/21/2009, 12:34 PM
I put each in their tiny tank, 24 g and 30 g. They are getting bigger now and difficult to keep them from getting to the side of the tank. I am setting up a 30X30X25 for both of them together. I just don't have a tank running that is big enough for both of them. My largest tank have 16 inches Gigantea and a BTA in it so it is out of the question. I used to have the Red magnifica in the 58 g tank, but when the Gigantea arrived, it get the big one and delegate the Magnifica in the smaller one. This is OK for the Magnifica, but I am taken care of 4 tanks at the same time and it is just too much for me. I need to get back down to one or two.

one of the ways to solve this could be to build 3-4 connected displays that can be fed by one sump? that way you get one larger system, easier to administer, less time demanding and likely more energy efficient.. attached drawing is plan for my future anemone system, maybe something like this could work for you too?

crsandoval
12/23/2009, 09:56 AM
8 years and 3 spilts, I have had mine 4 years in Feb and no splits.

Magga Pie
12/23/2009, 07:05 PM
I have noticed lately that it my magnifica has 2 seperate feet. Does this mean its splitting?

noodle
12/23/2009, 08:52 PM
Ahhh, the eye of the beholder....Is there really a bad magnifica? Ok, some of the tan ones but really.... Mine is very much like JP's, it's been quite a battle to get it healthy... I think my favorite color is the red base with green tentacles like on the cover of 'The Reef Aquarium' volume 2, found here:

http://www.amazon.ca/Reef-Aquarium-Comprehensive-Identification-Invertebrates/dp/1883693136

Have looked for years to find one like that with no success...

Mike

BonsaiNut
12/24/2009, 01:47 AM
Have looked for years to find one like that with no success...


Look in French Polynesia :) All the ones I saw there looked just like that :)

JPMagyar
12/24/2009, 06:34 AM
I have noticed lately that it my magnifica has 2 seperate feet. Does this mean its splitting?

Mine started splitting in the area of the mouth each time, but I'm no biologist and that's only a sample of one . . . ;)



JP

OrionN
12/24/2009, 08:17 AM
Mine start slitting by deflated a little and mouth open. I can then see the rock through the mouth. Then it form an O, then a C, then slitted into 2 C's. Then it formed up and mouths reformed. All happen over 48 hrs or so. One time out of three, it stop at forming a C and I have to cut it into two C's.

Magga Pie
12/24/2009, 08:58 AM
Well I cant see the mouth because he decided about 1 month ago give or take it decided to move to the front glass pannel on my tank so I get the pleasure of seeing the foot of the anemone all the time.I havent tried to move it because it seems happy. So I really dont know what the mouth looks like right now, all I know is that it's always open and my clowns never leave the thing

JPMagyar
12/24/2009, 10:33 PM
For the curious, I have some old photos posted previously in another thread that I don' t remember . . . but anyways here they are for fun.

JP