Wandering ritteri anemone

[Delphinus]

I've forgotten, what are you using for lights otherwise?

Where has he settled in now? Last picture I saw of him he was sort of in the middle. Can you share an updated shot so I can live vicariously through your pictures?

(What colour is his base BTW? The one I had, was a tan base but the most brilliant yellow of tentacles. Banana yellow. Have I mentioned yet I regret selling him? .. sigh. I have 2 carpets and 2 roses right now though and that's rather enough of a load as it is).

[Delphinus]

My experience with sebaes goes back a LONG time ago now (1998-2000 timeframe) and it's sort of sad how much things have not really changed in that time (coming in bleached or dyed, that is).

I found that the trick to getting the one I had to settle was to have the foot wedged into a crevasse gap between two rocks that was about 1" wide but something like 12"-14" deep. My thinking is with that species is that they don't really attach with the bottom of the pedal disk that other anemones do, but instead use their verrucae to adhere to substrate and also inflate the base so that it's pushing into the rocks and not able to be pulled out by the current.

[daniella3d]

It's really sad about the sebaes. The first one I got was dyed pink and it was dead after 2 weeks. It would not eat anything. The second one was a fighter. She was bleached but still had a little faint trace of beige color but what saved her was her appetite. That thing eat like a little pig each day since day one. It's really sad that they inject them with color. I never saw a healthy one at the store either.

Here is mine at the begining, it was 3" with very short tentacles, in starving mode, but that is the best I could find in any store:



After 2 or 3 months it was starting to change, tentacles getting longer and it was getting darker:




And now today after a year of good care and eating a lot, she's 12" and very dark brown body:

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

I've forgotten, what are you using for lights otherwise?

Where has he settled in now? Last picture I saw of him he was sort of in the middle. Can you share an updated shot so I can live vicariously through your pictures?

(What colour is his base BTW? The one I had, was a tan base but the most brilliant yellow of tentacles. Banana yellow. Have I mentioned yet I regret selling him? .. sigh. I have 2 carpets and 2 roses right now though and that's rather enough of a load as it is).

This guy's base is a pretty vibrant purple, and here's where he's been since Saturday afternoon:


I'm really, really hoping this is where he stays. I can work with this from an aquascaping perspective.

[asylumdown]

wow I totally didn't even notice Ferdinand photobombing this pic until just right now.

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

It's really sad about the sebaes. The first one I got was dyed pink and it was dead after 2 weeks. It would not eat anything. The second one was a fighter. She was bleached but still had a little faint trace of beige color but what saved her was her appetite. That thing eat like a little pig each day since day one. It's really sad that they inject them with color. I never saw a healthy one at the store either.

Here is mine at the begining, it was 3" with very short tentacles, in starving mode, but that is the best I could find in any store:



After 2 or 3 months it was starting to change, tentacles getting longer and it was getting darker:




And now today after a year of good care and eating a lot, she's 12" and very dark brown body:

Yah the guy I had was even whiter than yours was, like, sheet of unlined paper held directly under a 10000K spotlight white. I'm not surprised it didn't make it. yours looks fantastic, I would have loved to get an anemone like that.

[daniella3d]

wow, I would remove those beautiful SPS colony from anywhere around the anemone because in few months they will be incursted to the liverock and the anemone will be all over them.

Originally Posted by asylumdown

This guy's base is a pretty vibrant purple, and here's where he's been since Saturday afternoon:


I'm really, really hoping this is where he stays. I can work with this from an aquascaping perspective.

[asylumdown]

Le Sigh.

Nothing like an anemone that can't make up it's mind to trigger a complete re-aquascape. It moved again. Still on the same rock, but all the three corals to the left of the nem in the last pic I posted all had to be rescued. One of those acros was so encrusted to the rock I think I left 1/3 of it behind.

[Aquattro]

Keep in mind that as the acros grow, the flow will change and it will likely move again. Repeat..

[asylumdown]

Rescuing the corals...


And since it hasn't moved again in a couple of days, I epoxied them back to the rock. Who knows if they will be able to stay there. The anemone seems to be in a pretty good spot now though.


Also, I have just accepted that Ferdinand is going to photo-bomb every picture I take of my tank from now on.