The freakin petco here had those tapetum whateveryoucallem minicarpets in one of their last shipment for like 14 bucks each. I knew I should've bought them all and sold them to you guys. What is it about these things that everybody seems to crap over.

i haven't admitted victory yet




lol...sorry

evidently the price was decent lol cause it didnt last long once I posted here. Oh well its prolly better you bought it anyway I need to let my tank mature alittle more, and my bank account after setup, and daniel I call dibs on the first cutting LOL

lol...i've been watching it for a LONG time on AA, just waiting for a price drop or something If you find it that cheap again, obviously I'd say go for it Looks like I gotta make a list for the AA red now...

It arrived a few hours ago, looks to be in good health. Brightest red I've ever seen on any coral or anemone. Attached to some macro soon as it hit the tank. Hopefully my new prop setup will be complete in the next couple weeks and I can get back to propping them out

Lol cool glad you got it then. I figured someone on here was watching it.

the new nems from AA in the temp tank:

are all those mini's?

No, the first two are BTA's. The last one is though.

what she said...

i'm gonna try and prop out the btas while i'm at it

that AA red is so hot.

for those of you still looking for nano anemones, don't quit. just ask your friends to keep an eye out...

here are a few that made their way to me from fellow SCNRS members:

this one from tri



this one from matt



this one from martin



this one from joe (ok so it's a borneman so what!)

I found a maxi for $103 and minis for $36 today

Adinsxq-those are some nice anems what lighting do you have them under

dshnarw- Man that red looks great

Casey

t5

ahhh ok im contemplating placing a 250 watt MH I have over my 24 gallon, it was for my 50 gallon but its just sitting around anyway. Im alittle concerned about heat issues with it it wouldnt be bad in the winter but come this summer it may be a problem.

I just ordered the purple maxi mini and a rainbow mini from fragglereef.com they have more of the rainbows as well for 39 dollars if anyone wants some

ok let me know when you're ready to trade

Ok no problem prolly in the spring when its not so cold. Im having a bit of a Ph problem now but its nothing huge i know whats doin it but I dont want to hijack the thread its in the water chemistry forum if yo wanna see whats goin on, but I will definately will be trading from the info I have the maxi is ready to be cut and the mini should be close.

Casey

I got my anems today in 30 degree weather They are so cool I love em the mini is pretty small at about 3/4 of an inch and the maxi is about 2 inches across I will try and get a camera and get some pics here soon

does anyone feed their minis and if so what i fed mine some small pieces of chopped table shrimp soaked in selcon and they ate it quite readily.

what is a table shrimp?

just normal shrimp that you would boil and eat. I bought the raw ones and treated them with selcon.

alienz

LOL

FR has a really hot one. not listed on site. bug him

I got my maxi and my mini from FR great lookin anems. I have been surfin all the sellers for em but havent seen any as of lately. I am planning on cutting mine soon if i could just figure out how to get em off the rock.

Has anyone done a maxi/mini anemone Pico yet? I was wondering how a few of these guys might do in a 3.5 gallon pico with a 12" Current Powercompact.

AHHHHH I BOUGHT A RED TODAY click here to see I know of one on this site and it was well worth the price. I just got it for 60 dollars more since the other person got it on sale.

Guys what kind of lighting do these require?

I've got 96 watts of pc over 12 gallons, but i doubt that's enough. I'm upgrading in the near future, so we'll see.

They are supposedly very easy, with or without light.

Hmm. thanks.

Do you think it could hurt my mantis shrimp?

I cant possibly read through 17 pages so i gotta ask..

Has anyone tried/Is it possible...to cut an anemone in 1/4s and get 4 healthy Anemone "Frags"???

From my research and experience keeping a maxi mini as well as a mini they are really easy to keep. as for lighting PC is fine I keep mine under 130 watts of PC. Care wise they are really easy, they eat readily and if you touch one it will stick to your hand as if trying to eat you. Someone here actually stated that they have found a mini hiding in the collection cup of their skimmer and was doing great. The major problem is finding these guys I found my first two on fraggle reef and havent seen any on any sites besides atlantis ( this is where I got my red from) and the minis I have seen range in price from 40 dollars to upwards of 200, the maxi minis i have seen run for about 100. I hope this helps


Casey

sweet adin, my mini rainbow has split 3 times already, and the red looks like it is going to soon.

photos please

adin, i wanna see that rainbow u got from miguel :-)

omg shhhhh

CUT IT NOW!

You've been outed.

look in my frag tank thread I have pics of all my maxi minis and my minis there. I got all my mini nebs but the red from miguel. The rainbow and my purple maxi I got from him in my first order. Then I got the twin minis from him in the second. I need to get pics of the twins up yet and I will see what I can do about getting pics of the rainbows.

it's not absolutely crucial to cut the anemone straight down the middle.

if you cut out enough base material (tissue) you can still clone (same with mushrooms/rics)

mother

clone

that's no clone that's a snot ball.

It works!

thread needs more pix.

Does anyone have a recommendation of where to get nice lil' nems online?

Can you do this with BTA or any other Anemone? I read a story where a BTA got partially stuck in a wavemaker and small bits of pieces got ripped all over the tank and the ownder found small live BTA's in back of the tank later. So if I were to cuts pieces of the tentacles and put it in a small breeder box, they would become small BTA's? I guess it's the same concept as Aptasias reproducing when you break them into small pieces?

NO. Don't do that. If you are going to try and split a BTA, you'll need great water parameters, and a species only tank would be ideal, so nothing bugs the clones while they heal. They need to be split at the mouth.

I'm not going to try it yet because I'm not experienced and I didn't have it for long. I have a breeder box I can use If I decide to propagate it. I just found a video of BTA cutting on youtube. They said cut through the mouth and in the video he feels the mouth. So you have to cut through the external mouth and feel the internal mouth?

are flower anemones fraggable?

Flower nems don't propagate through splitting, so they aren't fraggable.

damn. there goes my plans for prop. What about cutting off parts of the foot or heavy feeding/stress induced splits

lolz nm why did I even ask about stress induced splits when they dont split?