sneeyatch
Active member
I've been thinking of adding an anemone to my 150 gallon Deep Dimension cube. It has a footprint of 3' x 3' x 2'-3" high and is lit by a single 250 watt 10 Reeflux bulb with a Lumenmax Elite reflector and powered with a Blue Wave pulse start ballast. IMO, the tank is very bright and has a nice, white color.
The tank has been set-up since the beginning of last September and is decently established IMO. I keep a shallow sandbed (1" max.) and I have about 90 lbs. of marco type base (now very much live) rock. All of the rock is positioned toward the back corner overflow area which leaves a good sized, exposed sandbed and plenty of swimming room for my fish. This system is a soft coral dominant tank with leathers and zoanthids predominantly. It's my intention to have only a couple of SPS - birdsnest, a slimer and I already have a bonsai frag growing well.
I have experience with keeping green BTA's, but it's been a while and I'd like to do something different this time around and I was thinking of a sebae. I've also kept all kinds of clowns in the past and my wife loved our pair of maroons so I'm stuck getting another pair... I plan on adding the anemone first so that it can become established and healthy before adding my first maroon.
Anyway, I know anemones aren't the easiest things to keep and that they can easily burn other things walking around, but my main concern is that I keep a king starry blenny, a royal gramma and a small lieutenant tang. Comparing the BTA's to the sebae's, what kind of potency difference is there? I know the sting of a BTA isn't that bad (I've seen a lawnmower blenny actually live under / within a rose before with no issues at all). Also, given my tank specs, would this appear to be an acceptable environment - knowing that they can get large?
I've considered LTA's but my sandbed isn't deep enough and I'm not willing to try any type of carpet anemone at this time.
Sorry for the wall of words, but any advice would be great.
Thanks!
The tank has been set-up since the beginning of last September and is decently established IMO. I keep a shallow sandbed (1" max.) and I have about 90 lbs. of marco type base (now very much live) rock. All of the rock is positioned toward the back corner overflow area which leaves a good sized, exposed sandbed and plenty of swimming room for my fish. This system is a soft coral dominant tank with leathers and zoanthids predominantly. It's my intention to have only a couple of SPS - birdsnest, a slimer and I already have a bonsai frag growing well.
I have experience with keeping green BTA's, but it's been a while and I'd like to do something different this time around and I was thinking of a sebae. I've also kept all kinds of clowns in the past and my wife loved our pair of maroons so I'm stuck getting another pair... I plan on adding the anemone first so that it can become established and healthy before adding my first maroon.
Anyway, I know anemones aren't the easiest things to keep and that they can easily burn other things walking around, but my main concern is that I keep a king starry blenny, a royal gramma and a small lieutenant tang. Comparing the BTA's to the sebae's, what kind of potency difference is there? I know the sting of a BTA isn't that bad (I've seen a lawnmower blenny actually live under / within a rose before with no issues at all). Also, given my tank specs, would this appear to be an acceptable environment - knowing that they can get large?
I've considered LTA's but my sandbed isn't deep enough and I'm not willing to try any type of carpet anemone at this time.
Sorry for the wall of words, but any advice would be great.
Thanks!
