Anyone successfully kept a ritteri let me know

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Drip acclimation by putting the ritteri and the water you got him in into a bucket and then dripping your water in for an hour or so until the water in the bucket is about 75% your tank water is important also, since these guys are mostly water.
More than likely, if your anemone is dying within a couple weeks, it was a goner before you brought it home. A healthy ritteri will have a mouth tightly held like a

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, long tentacles and it will hold its body up firmly. It is sad but true that in over 25 years of keeping anemones, I have only seen a handful of ritteris at LFSs that looked healthy enough to even consider taking home.
Good luck in your search.

 

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Originally Posted by phender
Unfortunately for the original poster, even though sebaes (H. crispa) and ritteris (H. magnifica) are in the same genus, their care in an aquarium are very different.
A sebae anemone can be kept under strong PC lighting, usually prefers in live at the rock/sand interface and likes moderate current.
Most successful ritteri keepers design tanks specifically for that anemone. Most use 250 - 400 watt Metal Halide bulbs. Because ritteris like to perch at the highest point in the tank, it is recommended that you make a peak under your light that does not touch the side glass. Otherwise the anemone will climb the glass and not look very nice all squished up against the waterline. They prefer strong surges of current, but not direct blasts from a powerhead. They are generally considered one of the two most difficult anemones to keep because of their specific needs and because they ship very poorly and it is very rare to find one good condition.
well because these species are so simular its sometimes hard to tell them apart..mine looks nothing like it did 2 yrs ago it was quite large with long flowing tentical i was told it was a sebae who knows it may be a ritteri to me it makes no difference which species it is excactly.mine thrives under 2 400 watts of halides 20 k and 2 96 w actinics..4600+gph of water flow.. maybe you can tell which species this is exactly cus i cant lol ..i just know its not dying anymore https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=190570

 

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You are right. With your aquarium conditions it doesn't really matter what type of anemone you have, because you will more than meet their needs.
Your anemone is very interesting. The pictures are not great for ID purposes, but it looks like a sebae (H. crispa) to me. However, it seems to be perching up on a rock with its foot and column exposed, which is very ritteri-like.
Here are a couple things you could look for that I could not determine from your photos:
1. What color is the column of the anemone?
H. crispa has a white/gray column
H. magnifica will have a colored column from red, purple, blue but most often brown
2. What do the verrucae look like? (verrucae are the little bumps on the underside of the tentacle/oral disk?
H. crispa will have clearly visible round white spots in a random pattern.
H. magnifica have more orderly marks (arranged in rows and/or columns) that are usually the same color but a different shade than the column. The spots are sometimes square or vertical dashes, but rarely round.
Normally I would say that sebaes and ritteris look nothing alike, nor do they act in similar ways, however yours is an odd case. Its seems to be H. crispa that is acting like H. magnifica. Captivity can do strange things to the appearance of anemones especially when they have been brought back from near death as yours was.

 

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i have to say your def right about being an odd case. to be honest i dont know if i could ever be as lucky again as i have with this particular anenome on bringing it back to health after the state it was in.it realy was a 50/50 split of alot of determination and pure luck on my behalf.ill try to get a good look at the anenomes underside kinda hard under actinics and see what it looks like i havent accually noticed if there was any coloration spots on the disk itself.as for the foot its coloring is a creamy coloring not quite white almost peachy but not red