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Hi Anthony
I've been searching for a healthy Sebae (Crispa) Anemone for my system. It seems most of them are way too white, thus not healthy. I've found this one for sale online, but the vendor is unsure whether it is a crispa or malu. Any thoughts? Also, is this possibly too bleached? Thanks for any help! PS glad to see you're back online!!!!
Chip
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It looks like a Crispa to me. The colored tips is pretty telling, and H. malu is a shorter/stubby tentacle anemone. 
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please do consider savig a life here... ask the dealer for a (deep) discount on a bleached anemone. They are so easy to save and recover with soe TLC. Simply stated... feed them regularly and you will save a life and get a good ($) deal in the process. Recovery may take 2-4 months for zooxanthellae to recover well enough... but no worries. It will.
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| FWIW, I bought one that looked exactly like the one shown in the photo. That was 9/15/02, and it is now a healthy giant in my 58 gallon tank. This photo is from a year ago. It enjoys whole krill & silversides, and small chunks of whatever food I feed the tank that get blown into it. The female clown even fed it a dying cleaner shrimp once. 
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| ah... magnificent to see/read. Thank you for sharing. May I ask too... how often do you feed, how much...and what is your water change schedule like?
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Well, I've decided to take the challenge, and see if I can nurse this guy back to full health. I'll keep you posted. Thanks
Chip
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| outstanding to hear! I look forwar to hearing of your progress. FWIW, do consider using rather small foods at least at first including Cyclop-eeze, DTs Natural Diet (oyster eggs) and/or Golden Pearls. Too often, folks feed unnaturally large chunks or pieces of food which the sightless anemone stings and draws in, but regurgitates later (at night often) and starves to death slowly without the aquarist realizing it.
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Also to add to those good food suggestion, enriching foods with products like Selcon helps. I don't know if there is any studies if it's of any benefit to corals/inverts. I always enrich the foods that I feed my anemone with nothing but positive results. FWIW.
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| sorry Anthony, I wasn't able to access the forum for the last couple of days... If it was my pic/anemone you were asking about, I directly feed it a 4-5 whole krill or 1-2 whole 3" silversides about once a week or every 10 days. I skewer the food item on a wooden stick and touch the tips of the tentacles, the anemone does the rest. Sometimes I jiggle the food a bit to simulate stuggling prey. I probably fed it more when it was smaller, maybe every 3 -5 days. It does catch small chunks of other food (usually a frozen mix, but it will occasionally catch and eat flake food as well) when I feed the fish, the female gs maroon clown would always grab the biggest chunk and shove it into the anemone. She would also grab the silverside or krill and invariably bring it to the anemone if one fell of the skewer. ("She" is in past tense because I lost her and all other fish when a glass heater shattered in my sump a couple of months ago. Anemone and corals all fine.) Tank Info: 58 Gallon mixed reef, started in June 1999. Mostly LPS. Lighing: 250w 10k MH light with 2 32w actinics. Flow: 2 Seio 820's in tank, return pump is mag7. Nutrient export: ETSS Reef Devil skimmer powered by mag7. Chaeto Algae in overflow box. Water changes every 2-3 weeks, usually around 10 gallons. Run carbon 24/7, usually changed during water changes.
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FWIW... I am sure your anemone would fare even better with smaller bits of food. Anemones rarely catch such large prey on the reef.
.Anthony Calfo
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