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Eddie2ooo

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Trading 2 beautiful Rare Green Tip Anemones (pic 1 - the one you will get). Picture 2 is a better shot of the colors. They are about 1.25 inches in diameter each. They keeps splitting so i'd like to trade them for some colorful Gonioporas, Acans or Ricordeas.
 

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Eddie2ooo

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Are you sure those are ritteri's?

Actually when I got them about 2 years ago, they told me it was galexea. Then I was told it was a torch. Then after showing it to my LFS, I was told it was a ritteri anemone. After looking through pictures this is the closest i have come to identifying it. I can take more pictures if you'd like.
 

ca1ore

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Don't think they are ritteri, maybe BTA? Too big for Majano IMO. My Ritteri is about 18 inches when inflated and shows no inclination to split - I wish it would as is getting too big for my tank.
 

crox99

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Don't think they are ritteri, maybe BTA? Too big for Majano IMO. My Ritteri is about 18 inches when inflated and shows no inclination to split - I wish it would as is getting too big for my tank.


Majano can be around 1" in size.This anemone is definately a majano. They split at an astonishing rate and like Eddie2ooo said it keeps splitting.......
 

ca1ore

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Yeah, perhaps so. I've had majanos a few times and they were always smaller and brownish colored, but maybe what we call 'majanos' actually encompasses a few different species. Ultimate indignity though, thinking you are getting a rare ritteri and ending up with a pest.

This is what a ritteri looks like .....

 

Eddie2ooo

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Hi guys,
To start with, they are much too large for majanos, and their morphology is completely wrong. These anemones may be some specie of Condylactis , most often seen in the US as a fairly easy-to-keep anemone from the Caribbean.
As far as I know the majano anemones are at their largest about 2 cm tall and maybe with a dime-sized oral plate. I have 2 of them (not the ones for trade) that are close to 3 inches (7cm). When I said they keep splitting i meant over the years. I purchased 3 of them over 2 years ago, and now I have 7. I can't really say they are taking over my tank or are killing surrounding corals. They are currently less then an inch away from my bubble coral and its doing fantastic (ill take a pic when my lights go on) and before bubble they were neighbors to my frogspawn, that grew to almost a foot when completly open. Ill post pictures of it as well. Since my experience as a reef hobbyist is under 3 years i suppose I could be wrong, but my experience with them has never been negative.
 

crox99

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Majanos are also known as tulip anemone. I also had a few and they really didn't bother my Lps.
 

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RARECLOWNSNJ

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Im not convinced they are mojano. Does their foot dig into the rock or does it stay on the rock. I know someone who had some small anemones they called bubbletips, they maxed out at about 3-4 inches across.

Tulip anemone is a term used in the aquarium industry to describe majanos but it covers many different anemones.
 

Eddie2ooo

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Im not convinced they are mojano. Does their foot dig into the rock or does it stay on the rock. I know someone who had some small anemones they called bubbletips, they maxed out at about 3-4 inches across.

Tulip anemone is a term used in the aquarium industry to describe majanos but it covers many different anemones.

I can't say if its foot digs into the rock or stays above it, but I can say that it is very difficult to get it off the rock, and when I got it off it almost instantaneously attached itself to my finger (felt like a hundred mini sunctions stock to me) i shook my hand and it came off. Hope it makes sense.

At this time regardless of this nem being mojano or not, it is safe to say it is not a rittery. I wonder if there is a way for me to change the title. Don't want to misguide anyone.
 

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