aggrating anemones in a reef tank

[thelizardkin]

Thid summer I was at The beach here in oregon, I caught 3 aggrating anemones I was curious if they could be kept in a warm water reef so I took them home and put them into my reef tank it's now been 3 moths and all 3 are still going strong has anyone ever heard of someone keeping aggrating anemones in warm water

 

[bues0022]

My guess is that they actually are not doing as well as they otherwise would have in the wild. They live in cold water for a reason, that is where they have adapted to live. Are you feeding them? Pics? My guess is they will have a shorter lifespan than they otherwise should. It is still an interesting question to look at, however. Keep us posted what happens good or bad so we can learn more.

 

[thelizardkin]

My guess is that they actually are not doing as well as they otherwise would have in the wild. They live in cold water for a reason, that is where they have adapted to live. Are you feeding them? Pics? My guess is they will have a shorter lifespan than they otherwise should. It is still an interesting question to look at, however. Keep us posted what happens good or bad so we can learn more.

They might not be doing very well but from the looks of it they are doing fine. In the wild they're tidepool animals which means they can handle extreme temperature and salinity changes. As for feeding I feed them along with my other corals a mix of phytoplankton, rotifers, oyster eggs, and amino acids although it is unnecessary being that they're photosynthetic like coral. I would post pics but imgur won't upload them for some reason but I'll try more. And i Will keep you updated i really hope they breed.

 

[s2nhle]

Good luck. do you have pics of them?

 

[garygb]

Are you saying aggregating anemones? Look forward to pics. Since they can adapt to such a wide range of conditions, perhaps they will be ok. I know tidepools down here in CA get very warm and the anemones are able to cope. Whether they can tolerate long periods of warm water is a good question.

 

[thelizardkin]

Here are some pics
http://imgur.com/56MVVZY
http://imgur.com/WG88yZb

 

[bjensen1253]

Those are really cool. One of a kind

 

[garygb]

Nice looking. Good luck, and keep us posted. They probably would benefit from direct feeding, as they don't appear to have a lot of zooxanthellae in their tissue.

 

[thelizardkin]

Those are really cool. One of a kind

Thank you once they start replicating I'm going to start selling them so it won't be one of a kind

 

[thelizardkin]

Nice looking. Good luck, and keep us posted. They probably would benefit from direct feeding, as they don't appear to have a lot of zooxanthellae in their tissue.

I've been feeding 2 of them and its scary what they'll eat I saw one eat a chunk of montipora digitata but number 3 is in a cave so i can't feed him but so far it's been fine

 

[bues0022]

Do you know how they reproduce?

 

[Woogiekids]

Those look like sola. I have a bunch in my temperate tank, and they appear to reproduce by larvae, not splitting. I haven't ever had any split, but have lots of babies.

 

[thelizardkin]

Do you know how they reproduce?

According to Wikipedia they split and form colonies and different colonies can differentiate from eachother and are hostile to other colonies

 

[thelizardkin]

Those look like sola. I have a bunch in my temperate tank, and they appear to reproduce by larvae, not splitting. I haven't ever had any split, but have lots of babies.

No its an aggergating anenome sola's are found in California but they're similar and these split in the wild and I hope they don't have larvae these things would kill my corals a lot