Sabae Anenome Question

That's pretty much how I saw them all the time.

Kind of like this one:

 

thats how ive always seen them... i think thats just how they are

 

i have 2 of them in my reef tank thats how thay look ive hade mine for many many months you are ok

 

About all sebaes are sold bleached. It took me months to get it back to health. It will color up brown. I think I have before and after pics in my rc gallery.

 

Acclimate slow. eggcreate and window screens. Start with 4 screens and remove one a week. Feed krill every day.

 

I have a 12" Purple tipped Sabae. It is completely brown in color and has been even since I got it from the Dr. in Iowa City that tore down his tank to move to Chicago. I have forgotten his name. When I got the nem' I read about them a bunch and white is bad, but it doesn't mean you can't pull them out of it. Every white nem' I have had before this didn't make it, but this one does awesome and eats very well. If it is priced right I would go for it. Seems like the reading I did agreed on about three months to get them back under good conditions and BRIGHT light. I forget what light you have JB, but I'll bet it it is good MH. There is a really good nem' article on RC if I remeber right. I think it is stickied on the nem' topic.

 

My percs love my Sabae. But to be honest I do not know the difference between false and real percs. I have never taken time to figure this out, anyone want to enlighten me? That article I mentioned also has a list of what percs host in what nems.

 

Here is my Sabae
 

 

I remember bringing that thing back for you Joel...you almost lost it to my ex cause she thought the clowns hosting in it were cute. /site/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/_default/emoticons/wink.gif

 

They are cute and the Nem is huge and eats very well. I would say he is my favorite inhabitant.

 

A true perc is ampheron percula (or close, sorry my latin isn't what it used to be ) and a false perc is ampheron occilerous (again sorry, not sure on the spelling of the scientific name). They are almost identical, but there are 2 ways I remember that can tell them apart. 1 is the number of spines on the dorsal (i think true percs have 11 and false have 14??). This is a fail safe way, although hard to tell unless the fish is pretty stationary and in person as pics are sometimes hard to count the spines. Another way is the area around their eyes. True percs tend to have completely black around their pupils, while false percs have orange/dirty around their eyes. This is a "rule of thumb" and isn't true in all cases, but is a good starting point. (it could also be the other way around, maybe Travis will chime in)
Regardless of tank bred or wild caught - the instinct to host in an anemone is present, but the BTA is not a natural host in the wild, so it may take awhile (if at all) for a true or false perc to host in one. Some people seem to have no trouble at all getting occs/percs to host in BTAs, while others never have it happen.
Since BTAs are easy to keep and you already have one - I would try to get your percs (or occs) to host in it before trying to get another more difficult species of nem.
Some people have had luck taping a picture of their species of clown hosting in an anemone to the side of their tank (facing in) near their anem. Don't know how this works but people say it has worked for them. Another thing people have done is to make sure the ambient light in a room is very dark when the tank lights go off, and then shine a flashlight at/around the anem to draw the clowns interests.
btw - JB does this forum software allow you to view previous posts when making a post. I didn't pay attention to who was asking about what, so if I could have seen the posts prior to mine on this posting screen - i could have directed some answers to the people actually asking them...

 

Phil, There is a checkbox that says "Show Replies" at the bottom of this reply page. Set it once and it remembers the setting.

 

SWEET! thanks Joel. I have my browser window set to only about 1/2 my screen while I'm at work and so I don't always see things at the bottom of screens...

 

Both of my BTAs bleached out during the summer because of the heat. They were more of a translucent white instead of the opaque white that the sebae anemone is.
I fed them silversides at first because I was afraid they would die but after awhile I stopped because they seemed to get enough food from the water when I fed the fish.