Anemones?

[Calappidae]

Hello new to forum :celeb1:

I'm going to be setting up a 125 gallon aquarium and I had a question about anemones.. BTA is the one I'm mainly aiming to get.

1. Will it nuke my tank? I had two condys in a 55 gallon and everything was dead next morning. Not sure if the rock I got was contaminated or what. Also is there any way to prevent it from killing everything (other than keep is healthy :lolspin: )

2. Will is sting and kill my fish? My tank is going to be mainly inverts. I have scooter blennies, greenbanded goby, yellow watchman, red leg hermits, striped cardinal, peppermint shrimp, pom pom crabs, sailfin tang, and ocellarius clownfish. I also plan on adding 1 of ever cleaner (1 fire and 1 scarlet skunk), harlequin shrimp, dragonface pipefish, corals, and the like. Technically the harlequin shrimp is going in a small nano with sponges ( I just can't leave a quartentine tank empty.. :thumbsup, but if I have to take a fish out and quartentine it for awhile I want to be able to put the harlequins with the anemone without worry.

3. What type of water flow is enough? I know they will move to the direct spot they prefer but I have no idea what to use to even give them any options for spots. I have 4 powerheads (they are magnetic) and are there any specific locations to put them or no?

I do know how anemones sting, and that I need to wait 6 months (which I will) but I'm just asking to be on the safe side.

 

[Reefnub]

Hello new to forum :celeb1:

I'm going to be setting up a 125 gallon aquarium and I had a question about anemones.. BTA is the one I'm mainly aiming to get.

1. Will it nuke my tank? I had two condys in a 55 gallon and everything was dead next morning. Not sure if the rock I got was contaminated or what. Also is there any way to prevent it from killing everything (other than keep is healthy :lolspin: )

2. Will is sting and kill my fish? My tank is going to be mainly inverts. I have scooter blennies, greenbanded goby, yellow watchman, red leg hermits, striped cardinal, peppermint shrimp, pom pom crabs, sailfin tang, and ocellarius clownfish. I also plan on adding 1 of ever cleaner (1 fire and 1 scarlet skunk), harlequin shrimp, dragonface pipefish, corals, and the like. Technically the harlequin shrimp is going in a small nano with sponges ( I just can't leave a quartentine tank empty.. :thumbsup, but if I have to take a fish out and quartentine it for awhile I want to be able to put the harlequins with the anemone without worry.

3. What type of water flow is enough? I know they will move to the direct spot they prefer but I have no idea what to use to even give them any options for spots. I have 4 powerheads (they are magnetic) and are there any specific locations to put them or no?

I do know how anemones sting, and that I need to wait 6 months (which I will) but I'm just asking to be on the safe side.

1) I never had anemone nuke my tank. You should always take out a dying anemone or anything dying/dead before it rots. A 55gal isn't too big, so I think that's how the tank was nuked when 2 died?

2) It will only eat a fish if the fish goes into it themselves and if they're sick/too weak to fight it.

3) They really don't need much flow and will move to whatever spot they like. I have a sps dominant tank with a lot of full. My anemone has picked one of the low/medium flow spots in the tank.

 

[Calappidae]

So on a scale of 1 to 10 what is the possibility of a fish or my harlequin shrimp dying in the anemone

 

[shifty51008]

on a bta your fairly safe on them eating your fish or shrimp.

 

[Calappidae]

on a bta your fairly safe on them eating your fish or shrimp.

So If I put the BTA in a 6 gallon with the harlequins it shouldn't bother them? (lol I'm never going to do that but I'm just trying to specify how safe I am).

What about long tentacle are they fairly safe or should I stick with the BTA.. I was thinking about have 5 ocellarius hosting the BTA in a 125.

 

[ca1ore]

Hmmm, I have kept lots of nems over the years and have never had one 'nuke' a tank, nor eat a healthy fish. About the only way I'd think one could kill a tank would be to be puréed by a power head, and then probably only the fish would die. I'd not have thought either the bubble tip or long tentacle to be particularly problematic, though you might want to just go with a pair of clowns. Had 11 clowns in my tank (don't ask) and as soon as I added a Mag it was WWIII. Now I just have two.

 

[ca1ore]

PS - Don't attempt either a Mag (too difficult) or a carpet (too difficult and WILL eat your fish).