Blue mag

mcwoodhill · 03/29/2018, 08:00 PM

I'm currently working in Beijing and lfs's seem to have quite some cool mags. when i got this one, it was really in bad shape and thus sold to me at a low price even in the local perspective. after 10 day quarantine with cipro, it now looks ok but its mouth keeps quite open with a brown chuck stuck at a corner of it. i tried to remove it with a glass stick but the chunk seems to root deep. ill leave it there, watch it closely and finger cross to myself

you guys can see there's the brown chunk. i guess those chunks literally makes a mag sick coz every time i treat a sick one, it always blows off lots of chunks and then looks good.

its bleached to some point

Pinkskunk · 03/30/2018, 06:25 AM

wow that is a very pretty mag. just give it some blow it will expel those waste by itself. if you can suck it out with a turkey baster it would be better but dont use any physical force that may harm it in anyway Good luck with it i hope to see the progress it makes as i have not seen a blue mag on here.

bleaching is due to cipro treatment it will bounce back once the mag is recovered. try NOT to feed it for another week or two.

Kinetic · 03/30/2018, 11:29 AM

Wow that blue looks intense. Goodluck, hope it does really well. Keep us updated!

LauraGreenImp · 03/30/2018, 01:53 PM

So beautiful I can hardly look away. Best of luck.

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garygb · 03/30/2018, 07:29 PM

Beautiful!

davocean · 03/31/2018, 11:13 AM

I'm wondering if the blue has more to do w/ it being bleached, and if it will become more purple as it regains health and true color.

Keep posting pics so we can see how it goes.

mcwoodhill · 04/01/2018, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by davocean

I'm wondering if the blue has more to do w/ it being bleached, and if it will become more purple as it regains health and true color.

Keep posting pics so we can see how it goes.

It’s tentacles are starting to get darker/browner

I guess the base and the tips will remain blue while the tentacles become quite brown

ClownNut · 04/01/2018, 05:19 AM

looks like photoshopped. all the coralline algae look odd.

mcwoodhill · 04/01/2018, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by ClownNut

looks like photoshopped. all the coralline algae look odd.

No ps job at all and I can post a video even without white balance correction

OrionN · 04/01/2018, 11:25 AM

Is there anyway you can bring him back to the US?
Color wise, IMO, both blue and purple are nice. I would love to see this guy with white compensated. Regardless, he is an exceptionally nice Magnifica.

drtrash · 04/01/2018, 12:16 PM

Whats the game plan if it wanders? Would like to have one but never could get them to stay put. Metal halide not an option, awesome blue

mcwoodhill · 04/01/2018, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OrionN

Is there anyway you can bring him back to the US?
Color wise, IMO, both blue and purple are nice. I would love to see this guy with white compensated. Regardless, he is an exceptionally nice Magnifica.

id really wanna do so but the customs wont be happy about it

mcwoodhill · 04/01/2018, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by drtrash

Whats the game plan if it wanders? Would like to have one but never could get them to stay put. Metal halide not an option, awesome blue

the gyre pumps seem to be less harsh on nems. I once had a ritteri that wandered str8 into a gyre pump but it was blown off of the pump right away with quite some tentacles minced. seemingly it didnt get sucked into the pump and minced up entirely.

Long in short, well, basically i dont have a good way to prevent it from wanderin but i do think MH and strong waves can make 'em stay put. insofar it behaves well. I'll get a pair or trio of occ's this week. finger cross. occ's usually will clean up their home and pick the chunk away

OrionN · 04/01/2018, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by drtrash

Whats the game plan if it wanders? Would like to have one but never could get them to stay put. Metal halide not an option, awesome blue

Strong LED light is a good option. That is how I keep mine now. No longer any MH in my house.

SI_reef · 04/01/2018, 10:36 PM

Wow beautiful mag , best of luck with it.

davocean · 04/02/2018, 09:04 PM

All my mags have stayed put under T5's, w/ a couple LED strips(nothing super strong on LEDs)

Given a high up perch close to that light seems to keep them in place as long as params are stable.

Will be nice to see this one as it colors up.

RIGUY314 · 04/03/2018, 12:18 PM

What a mg! great colors. yes please keep us posted with lots of pictures. a video wouldn't hurt either. best of luck.

mcwoodhill · 04/05/2018, 04:20 AM

A video clip

https://youtu.be/6vVVp_fC3QE

Pinkskunk · 04/05/2018, 11:36 AM

wow that blue mag is very large and pretty. i like it alot. what did you do with your red carpet and the other mag you used to have with the red carpet? do you know if your blue mag comes from China or elsewhere in Asia?

ClownNut · 04/05/2018, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcwoodhill

A video clip

https://youtu.be/6vVVp_fC3QE

this looks a lot more purple vs the photos a lot bluer. i think it might be a bleached purple.
beautiful mag.

mcwoodhill · 04/06/2018, 04:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pinkskunk

wow that blue mag is very large and pretty. i like it alot. what did you do with your red carpet and the other mag you used to have with the red carpet? do you know if your blue mag comes from China or elsewhere in Asia?

I do think the red had comes from Indonesia

I gifted the red had to a friend when I closed the tank down. The mags were sold and a couple of sps’s and the tank itself

And I set up a smaller tank and left it to my partner. It basically houses some simple sps’s—a forest fire digitata and a green slimer and a gbta

Gotta admit as a rookie he’s insofar doing a pretty good job

mcwoodhill · 04/06/2018, 04:55 AM

Per the blue mag, I guess they come either from the South China Sea or if the seller was correct, they come from Indonesia too

Lfs’s here in beijing seem way more connected to the coral farms and collectors in Indonesia, the Philippines. They sell sps’s in big chunks, which are in the us labeled with fancy names and sold as frags

Haha quite wanna stay longer in Beijing now despite smog and super unstable weather

ClownNut · 04/06/2018, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mcwoodhill

Per the blue mag, I guess they come either from the South China Sea or if the seller was correct, they come from Indonesia too

Lfs’s here in beijing seem way more connected to the coral farms and collectors in Indonesia, the Philippines. They sell sps’s in big chunks, which are in the us labeled with fancy names and sold as frags

Haha quite wanna stay longer in Beijing now despite smog and super unstable weather

yeah, when i visited my buddy at Shanghai and Hong Kong, I was ruined. what we got in the US, mostly, the bottom of the barrel.
i was lucky when i was in Beijing, blue sky and visibility was great about 20 blocks. the tourist guide said he don't see that often. the unfortunate part was i didn't get a chance to check out LFS there.

mcwoodhill · 05/06/2018, 06:54 PM

a month mark

joshky · 05/06/2018, 07:10 PM

Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!! I'm not even in the market for another magnifica--I have a beautiful one already, but if I saw that at a LFS I'd have to buy it. Great specimen.

03/29/2018, 08:00 PM	#1
mcwoodhill Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: New York Posts: 28	Blue mag I'm currently working in Beijing and lfs's seem to have quite some cool mags. when i got this one, it was really in bad shape and thus sold to me at a low price even in the local perspective. after 10 day quarantine with cipro, it now looks ok but its mouth keeps quite open with a brown chuck stuck at a corner of it. i tried to remove it with a glass stick but the chunk seems to root deep. ill leave it there, watch it closely and finger cross to myself you guys can see there's the brown chunk. i guess those chunks literally makes a mag sick coz every time i treat a sick one, it always blows off lots of chunks and then looks good. its bleached to some point

03/30/2018, 01:53 PM	#4
LauraGreenImp Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Nashville Posts: 131	So beautiful I can hardly look away. Best of luck. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro __________________ No glass box turns into a beautiful reef tank quickly. Current Tank Info: 150gT Mixed Reef - help me trap/remove/destroy my hateful Molly Miller Blennys!

03/31/2018, 11:13 AM	#6
davocean Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 14,655	I'm wondering if the blue has more to do w/ it being bleached, and if it will become more purple as it regains health and true color. Keep posting pics so we can see how it goes. __________________ There's a fine line between owning your tank and your tank owning you! Current Tank Info: SCA 120g RR Starfire, Tunze silence 1073.02 return, 40g sump w/ fuge, SWC Extreme 160 cone skimmer,Geismann reflexx 4xT5, 2x Panorama Pro LED strips, Vortech MP40QD

04/01/2018, 05:19 AM	#8
ClownNut Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,859	looks like photoshopped. all the coralline algae look odd. __________________ Dont let me know where u lived if u have a nice pair of clownfish in ur tank!^_^ Clown kidnaper^_^ Current Tank Info: 300DD, SM200/RD3,ATI 60-8X80+4X75, 2 Sea Sweep & 4X6105 & 6208

04/01/2018, 11:25 AM	#10
OrionN Moved on Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Coastal Texas Posts: 16,000	Is there anyway you can bring him back to the US? Color wise, IMO, both blue and purple are nice. I would love to see this guy with white compensated. Regardless, he is an exceptionally nice Magnifica. __________________ Minh My homepage is my album here at Reef Central Current Tank Info: Reboot 320 anemones reef. Angels: Yellow Chest Regal(2), Flame (2). Copperband But. Tangs: Yellow, Purple. Wrasse: about 20 wrasses various species. Anemones: Giantea X4 (Breen, Blue, Purple and Multicolors), Haddoni X1 Red, Magnifica X1 Purpletip

03/30/2018, 06:25 AM	#2
Pinkskunk Registered Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,773	wow that is a very pretty mag. just give it some blow it will expel those waste by itself. if you can suck it out with a turkey baster it would be better but dont use any physical force that may harm it in anyway Good luck with it i hope to see the progress it makes as i have not seen a blue mag on here. bleaching is due to cipro treatment it will bounce back once the mag is recovered. try NOT to feed it for another week or two.

03/30/2018, 11:29 AM	#3
Kinetic Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 7,230	Wow that blue looks intense. Goodluck, hope it does really well. Keep us updated!

03/30/2018, 07:29 PM	#5
garygb Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: los angeles Posts: 4,471	Beautiful!

04/01/2018, 12:16 PM	#11
drtrash Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: S. Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 2,178	Whats the game plan if it wanders? Would like to have one but never could get them to stay put. Metal halide not an option, awesome blue

04/01/2018, 10:36 PM	#15
SI_reef Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2018 Posts: 5	Wow beautiful mag , best of luck with it.

04/02/2018, 09:04 PM	#16
davocean Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 14,655	All my mags have stayed put under T5's, w/ a couple LED strips(nothing super strong on LEDs) Given a high up perch close to that light seems to keep them in place as long as params are stable. Will be nice to see this one as it colors up. __________________ There's a fine line between owning your tank and your tank owning you! Current Tank Info: SCA 120g RR Starfire, Tunze silence 1073.02 return, 40g sump w/ fuge, SWC Extreme 160 cone skimmer,Geismann reflexx 4xT5, 2x Panorama Pro LED strips, Vortech MP40QD

04/03/2018, 12:18 PM	#17
RIGUY314 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 178	What a mg! great colors. yes please keep us posted with lots of pictures. a video wouldn't hurt either. best of luck. __________________ RIGUY314 upgrade in process - Reef Savvy 602424 rimless mixed reef - w/the works Current Tank Info: Red Sea Reefer 425XL

04/05/2018, 04:20 AM	#18
mcwoodhill Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: New York Posts: 28	A video clip https://youtu.be/6vVVp_fC3QE

04/05/2018, 11:36 AM	#19
Pinkskunk Registered Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 1,773	wow that blue mag is very large and pretty. i like it alot. what did you do with your red carpet and the other mag you used to have with the red carpet? do you know if your blue mag comes from China or elsewhere in Asia?

04/06/2018, 04:55 AM	#22
mcwoodhill Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: New York Posts: 28	Per the blue mag, I guess they come either from the South China Sea or if the seller was correct, they come from Indonesia too Lfs’s here in beijing seem way more connected to the coral farms and collectors in Indonesia, the Philippines. They sell sps’s in big chunks, which are in the us labeled with fancy names and sold as frags Haha quite wanna stay longer in Beijing now despite smog and super unstable weather

05/06/2018, 06:54 PM	#24
mcwoodhill Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: New York Posts: 28	a month mark

05/06/2018, 07:10 PM	#25
joshky Acros & Wrasses Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Central KY Posts: 2,546	Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!! I'm not even in the market for another magnifica--I have a beautiful one already, but if I saw that at a LFS I'd have to buy it. Great specimen. __________________ Josh My 80g: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2677031