My Heteractis magnifica and clowns

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Beautiful. I know the whole clownfish-anemone thing is common, but I still think it's just fantastic to watch. Very cool. Thanks

[Renegade]

love the pics. What kind of camera?

[christyf5]

That anemone is just spectacular. So awesome about the clowns too and terrific photos!!

[surgeonfish]

I have a pair of Tomato clowns that also lay eggs every few weeks. However, they are at the back of my tank and I have never been able to take pictures as good as yours. They lay their eggs on the tank glass so I was never able to remove them to try and raise them.
What kind of anemone is it? Do you feed it directly?

[Mik_101]

Spectacular clowns. Do the fish like eating the eggs?

[cprowler]

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

The anemone is a Heractis Magnifica aka Ritteri and I don’t direct feed it anymore as they can grow very large, 3 or 4 feet around if I remember correctly. I don’t think it would get that big in this environment but it’s big enough. It does get stray mysis shrimp and other food when feeding every thing else.

I don’t think they eat their young from what I remember hearing in a podcast about it. Not sure what episode….

http://www.reefcast.com/index.php


The first pics were taken with a Nikon D70 and not sure on the older shots.

[Jason McK]

Sweat pics buddy. Remember what I said about giveing me the full resolution file and I'd hook you up with some prints.

J

[danny zubot]

Very cool, nice clear pics.

[Mik_101]

Originally Posted by danny zubot

Very cool, nice clear pics.

Yes they are very high quality pictures.

[cprowler]

I've noticed that my Ritteri was starting to split nearly two months ago. It has split apart on the left side so it is in the shape of a backwards letter "C", it split right down the middle so half the mouth is on each side. It looked like a mouth is forming on both of the sides.



Week after week it would look like it was going to finally finish the split but it never did. I would move around a bit and I would get new hope but it would just not split.





After discussing it with some other Mag owners I finally decided to help it along. The last couple days it started roaming and looked like it was going to finally finish the split. It had climbed up the rock-work and the overflow and sat there for a couple of days. I tried to move it but it would not let go and when I tried to force it the flesh started to tear. So after nearly two months I had enough and cut it in the narrowest spot trying to minimize any release of toxins. I also put in fresh carbon and have water change water ready.

Anyway they seem to be doing fine, I don't like where they are but will leave them for now to let the flesh heal.

Here are some crappy pics but it gives you the gist of it.