Need some info on retteri anemones!!!

[LuckySingh]

My wife spotted this on I blue water ...
I hve never kept retteri anemone and would like some info about them how they r different from BTAs .... This one is about 7" long
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[kkiel02]

They need a ton of light and flow. They mainly end up on the top of one of your highest rocks from all the pics I have seen. I have been debating one as well but getting a healthy one is hard. They also don't ship too well. They can split like a bta but not near as often as btas. Just make sure the mouth is nice and tight and there isn't damage to the foot. Along with coloration of course. :) you don't want to end up with a bleached one.

[hobogato]

if you do get one, you will need to keep a close eye on it for a long time. i will start to breathe a little easier about mine when i hit the three or four month mark. they are finicky and like kevin said, the shipping and first few weeks are hardest on them. they will move if they arent totally happy and that can be disastrous to a reef, especially if they end up in a powerhead. i lost 75% of my fish and corals in my old 240 when a healthy ritteri decided to swim around and made it into a large seio powerhead.

[LuckySingh]

Thanks guys I did a lot of research on this and decided I am gne pass ....I just stick with BTAs and I will move my sunburst with couple days in my display....

[LuckySingh]

Thanks guys I did a lot of research on this and decided I am gne pass ....I just stick with BTAs and I will move my sunburst with couple days in my display....

[CoryDude]

Thanks guys I did a lot of research on this and decided I am gne pass ....I just stick with BTAs and I will move my sunburst with couple days in my display....

Good call. Way to delicate. Everytime I mentioned getting one, my buddy Bruce at aquatek talked me out of it.

[alton]

The free fish magazine at all the fish stores has a great article on ritteri's. A lot of light, better to buy a clone, must be fed at first, must have a host clownfish, a bunch of flow, protection from power heads, where some of the requirements.

[OrionN]

The color of that looks nice but it does not seem to be in the best of health. The picture they posted should be the best the anemone looks under their care. Even deathy sick Magnifica looks normal sometime during the day and that one does not look normal or healthy. If I was going to buy one online, I would not choose that one.

[jvene1]

There's a nice big one at Polly's Pet Shop in New Braunfels if you want to go look at it in person.

[StevenSeas]

Yes we have had the large o e in nb for about 3-4 weeks now. As far as care on them as mentioned before they like a lot of flow and end up usually on the top of the aquascape. However, due to these two things I actually believe that they come off of a little deeper reefs wjere they climb up for the most flow and acess to food possible. The customers that I have that have had good success with th actually dont have as much light over their tank as one would think.

[OrionN]

Magnifica will seek highest point in the tank to get the most light and current. I think it is impossible to provide too much light for Magnifica and Gigantea (with in reason of course) I have had Magnifica settle right under my 400 W MH. The tentacles only several inches under the water and the bulb is about 6 inches above. It is important that the rock where you want to place the anemone have a somewhat fat surface and big enough for the foot of the anemone, and the anemone should be in a large enough area where it does not touch the side of the tank. If the circulation is poor or light is low, Magnifica have been know to release it's foot and float with the current trying to reach a better place. Needless to say, this would be disasterous in a reef tank. I have had good luck with keeping magnifica under 150 W double end magnifica or higher. I have not try to keep them in lower light than this.
For current, I often use two PH pointing direct at each other meet just above the Magnifica. Sometime I point the PH a little upward This provide reasonable current. I have some picture shomewhere about a 30 g cube tank I keep a smal magnifica in a few years ago. If I find it, I will post these pictures.

[OrionN]

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