Anemone Owners????????

[MCary]

I found a RBTA so I bought one. The last anemone I had liked to roam. Have any of you found any good tricks and tips for keeping an anemone in one spot. Would a piece of PVC placed to protect his foot help? Should I initially put him in an area of low flow?

Any help would be apprciated.

Mike

 

[Clouded]

I have not found anything that will keep one from movig... They like to move...My LTA will not stop moving...once they find a spot they like, that is when they will stop...You can try putting it in low flow with high light, the RBtA's like high light.

 

[TWallace]

Mine roamed for a couple months at first, then found a spot it liked and hasn't moved in a few months. Mine has its base attached to the roof of a cave, and it's tube and oral disc wrap around the exit of the cave so the tentacles can get light. I never tried to "place" mine. I just let it go where it wanted.

 

[TKByrnes]

try placing them in a little hole about 1 inch deep in the rock. not all the way through the rock. just a little crevice. also medium flow. i have had a pink tip that has not moved from the spot i put him in by doing what i said. also a white one that im not sure about the name of i did the same thing and he hasnt moved either.

 

[jhorricks]

It will move until its happy. Just watch it and move stuff out of its way. I had a massive ritteri that would stop moving until one day it found a pump and almost annihilated my entire tank.

 

[nathan_unsane]

my giant carpet was roaming and i have other anemones that i thought they might sting eachother or what ever happens...

if you have enough rock work to kinda box him in, that's how i keep mine in one place...

my other anemones, a rock anemone and sebea stay in the rock that i put them on when i got em... i dont even think i could get em out if i wanted to...

but yea... try boxing him in with rock work...

 

[MCary]

I was thinking of placing him in a PVC endcap of appropriate size and placing the endcap in some rocks. If the flow and light were to its liking, and he felt his vulnerable foot was secure, he might stay put. My last one, a GBTA, was lost in my last move, but was a pain in the neck to get to sit still and got caught in a power head once. I have some serious closed loop intakes that I really don't want him sucked into. Now that I think about it, before the new RBTA gets here I should Tee them off to reduce intake pressure huh?

Thanks

Mike

 

[650-IS350]

Put it in a place that has just the right lighting, flow and constantly feed it so that it would not feel the need to move around to look for food. Mine has only moved 2 inches since do this.

 

[OCDP]

Exactly as delsol said.

If you place the anemone in an area that it prefers, chances are it will stay put. I have had great success with this. BTA/RBTA/GBTA IME like moderate flow (nothing harsh.. just a gentle flow) and medium/strong lighting. If you provide it with a nice crevice in the rock, even better. They like to bury their foot into the cracks so that nothing/no one can get at it , this way, it is able to hide it's foot and expand everywhere else.

Try to meet it's requirements and it shouldn't move too much. Obviously, there's no guarantee.. but you do stand a better chance.

Scott

 

[Ryanqk]

My LTA has finally settled down in the substrate in a moderate flow area protected all around by LR . Different anenomes like different places follow OCDP's advice thats really the only thing you can do, they all love to move around. Its like teaching a ADD cat to sit/lie down/ play dead. It wont work, they will move where they want to.
Ryan

 

[jeffbrig]

My RBTA literally "let go" and allowed himself to float around the tank to find a spot he liked. He tried one rock pile for about a week, apparently decided it wasn't for him, then appeared at the other end of the tank the next day. Picked a spot and stayed there. 3 months later we had the first split, and one of the anemones wandered into a Tunze Stream intake. The other wandered up to the overflow mesh, and managed to get himself a little mangled up in it a bit.

I worked him free, put him in the middle, and he settled down in a nice spot. He absolutely demands to have his foot on the underside of a rock, and he stretches out and around it to get light during the day. Since finding his "happy place", we've been through two more splits 1->2->4, and none of the clones have left that rock (except when I pry them off to send them to new homes).

Obligatory pics

3 of the 4, right after the most recent split

Fully recovered and inflated

 

[OCDP]

Wow.. what a stunning rose. The colours are amazing. It's bubble tips look so "smooth" too.. very nice specimen.

 

[jeffbrig]

Thanks OCDP! I think they come from a good line. Great color and they seem very well adapted to captivity. I got mine from another RC member in January, and I've seen 3 generations of splits since then. The previous owner went from 1 to 8 or 9 in a little over a year. Not sure if he was the original owner, or if his was a split. They seem to be quite prolific, though.

 

[xtrstangx]

They roam around until they are happy, so if you keep it in one spot, it may not necesarily be in the best position for it.

 

[MCary]

When I got him, I placed him in a PVC ring cut from 1.5 inch PVC. He stayed put until today, when he climbed up under a rock and appears to be splitting.

Mike