Anemone with softies and LPS?????

[Reefboy4life]

I have been wanting a RBTA for some time now but i am worried it will kill my other corals. i mainly have softies and a few LPS in a 90 gallon tank but most of my live rock is covered in softies, my question is will the RBTA kill my corals, can i clear an area free of corals for the anemone?

 

[WaffleWalffle22]

An RBTA will move around a lot if they aren't happy with the conditions in the area they're in. Factors that effect them moving are water flow, lighting, temperature, water parameters, and many more things. It will sting and possibly kill your softies. If you really want one, you could get a really healthy RBTA and put it on a rock that isn't near your main rock structure it shouldn't move off that rock. I've seen some anemones puff up and float around the tank, but it was only because they were very unhealthy.

 

[rayn]

If you get a healthy one and place it and it sticks, you should be okay. Ifit starts to move, watch it and be ready to move corals. I have three that placed, stuck, and never moved. Then I have two that wandered for two days before getting happy and sticking. Theni had to move my hammer, and still lost two heads on it.

 

[Reefboy4life]

sweet, i am going to give it a try, i know my maroon clown will be happy.

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

My RBTA is healthy as heck and it lives in the center of a cluster of three green nepthea. Most soft corals will withstand the anemone sting and or sting back. Some of the more sensitive softies like yellow fiji toadstool and some other toadstools don't seem to like the anemone sting but they don't die. I keep My RBTA in a 75 gallon stuffed with 35 different species of soft corals, sinularia, lobophyton, nepthea, mushrooms, zoanthids, pallythoas, star polyps and so on. So far everything has been touched at some point by my anemone or previous RBT anemones and been fine. Star polyps will say closed up for a while when stung and the fiji yellow toadstool gets tissue necrosis from being stung. Nothing too major so I never had any real problem.