anenomes in a reef

[jarrod13]

I am thinking about getting a bta in my reef too. Not trying to hijack but a question i have is how fast do they move, i'm just worried about it stinging a bunch of corals overnight. I have a lta that moves pretty slow and i have plenty of time to move corals around. Are bta's the same?

 

[sandiegan]

+1 for having anemones in a reef tank. But I do prefer carpets/LTA's that like the sand bed over BTA's. Jarrod, BTA's can move quite a distance in one night (couple feet at least). They can also totally let go of their hold on a rock and float around for a while until they find a suitable place, or a powerhead/overflow. However, IME that only happens when they are very unhappy in their current spot.

 

[jarrod13]

Also do they usually kill the coral if it is stung

 

[Toddrtrex]

Also do they usually kill the coral if it is stung

Was that meant as a question?

I have lost more then one frag that fell into my Haddonis -- even when in it for less then a minute.

 

[Finsky]

I cleared 20 inches from the right end of my five foot 120 gallon tank with 150 pounds of live rock before getting the BTA and allowing it to attach to a piece of live rock about six inches in from the end. It has finally found a place 12-18 inches from the right end and has been there at the top of the live rock with its base extended down about 10 inches into the rock. I agree they can move quite a bit if unhappy. The trick is to make them happy. My BTA settled next to a yellow tonga leather coral and eventually grew over it. The leather slowly shrank to nothing in this battle.

 

[reefstew]

I have a rbt which split & ocellaris & a pair of b&w clowns are hosting, a long tenicle, & a carpet nem. I put a condi in after my wife insisted but moved him to another tank after it killed a coral.
This is in a 240 reef tank.

 

[Finsky]

I received the Ritteri this afternoon and finally acclimated it and by7:00 pm placed it in the tank's four inch deep and 3 /12 inch wide hole dug in the crushed coral substrate in between the live rocks by the Clarkki clowns 20 inches in from the left end. The 3 1/2 inch Clarkii female and 2 1/2 inch Clarkii male to started hosting in the Ritteri with minutes after their new home arrived.

 

[Finsky]

More encouragement to keep clowns with anemones in reef tanks. Read books, posts on this Web site, and talk to people about preparing places an anemone might be most likely to settle including substrate, live rock, current, light, and good water. Of course, the anemone can alway move if it does not like its intial placement so you have to be prepare to move other corals out of its way if you value those corals and really want an anemone in your tank.

I received an eight inch Hereractis magnifica on Thursday from Drs. F & S and took this picture of my Clarkii clowns hosting with it on Friday night with the lights out on the left end of the tank.

Daytime photograph of Red Rose Bubble Tip Anemone with breeding pair of Cinnamon clowns on the right end of the tank.

 

[Finsky]

I just took a Friday night time picture of a Heteractis magnifica which I put in the tank Friday evening from Drs. F & S to give my homeless Clarkii clowns there own home as the Cinnamon clowns have the Red Rose Bubble Tip.

 

[livingcorals]

Your taken a chance but just know about that anemone 1st.
Hey Todd nice Haddoni

Did you get the LTA local??

megandwhite, I would not really get any anemone in a tank that is running less than 6 months tho. Just make sure everything is up and going with a well established system.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Your taken a chance but just know about that anemone 1st.
Hey Todd nice Haddoni

Did you get the LTA local??

megandwhite, I would not really get any anemone in a tank that is running less than 6 months tho. Just make sure everything is up and going with a well established system.

Thought you would like that one Haddoni. Need to get a better pic of it.

While I no longer have that LTA, I did get it local --- Beyond the Reef, Golf and Roselle.

 

[Finsky]

Gary adtravels, Toddrtrex, davocean:

Really beautiful anemones.

I really like the anemone as a reef creature as they seem to be half fish and half coral with a mind of there own and when you finally get them happy they reward you big time.

 

[OrionN]

Here is my tiny H. magnifica in a 30 g cube tank

 

[Toddrtrex]

the 2nd pic is amazing! the colors and love the carpets. where do you get them from

Thanks.

The blue Haddoni came from the Diver's Den section of LA. The green one came from an LFS.

 

[Finsky]

Red Rose Bubble Tip Anemones

Red Rose Bubble Tip Anemones

the 2nd pic is amazing! the colors and love the carpets. where do you get them from

I just had to add a second Red Rose Bubble Tip Anemone and it has stayed in the same place the Clarkii clowns were digging on the left side of the aquarium. Fed it and my Red Rose I have had for a year on the right side with two breeding Cinnamon clowns some fresh small shrimp small scallops yesterday and they ate with enjoyment.

When I do and that is when, have a bubbble tip clone which moves I will trade it in to the local fish store.

:fun4:

 

[coralnewbee]

yes you can

yes you can

i have a red bubble tip in my 90 gal reef,its doing very well..i have put it in a nice cove in the rocks hoping it would not wonder around..try to keep it with soft corals because it will sting & kill your hard stuff,it will also feed on small fish (supper time ).feed it often ,keep it happy and you should not have any problems

 

[Eric Noa]

Yep. All three of my tanks are reef tanks, and each has at least one Haddoni carpet anemone in them. And in the past I kept LTAs in those tanks. I personally wouldn't keep a rock dwelling anemone in a reef, though some are better then others --- couldn't pay me to do BTAs in a reef tank again. Not because the main anemone moves (( I never had that issue )) but, because the clones move.

My 75 (( the white balance was way off in this shot, but it is my most current )

58 ---Need to get a more current one, but pretty much the same.

An old shot of my 33 back when I had an LTA in it (( now has 2 Haddonis ))

How big are those carpets?

 

[Toddrtrex]

How big are those carpets?

These are guesses, since I am not at home right now.

The blue one --- 12"
Green one --- 8"
Striped green --- 10"

Ones that weren't pictured above,

Tanish one --- 15+"
Green with purple rim --- 8"

white balance is off a bit,

 

[E.intheC]

In the LFS today I saw an absolutely amazing looking red carpet. (Think it was a mag, but not sure). Absolutely the brightest looking red 'nem I've seen. It was hosting a true perc. I would have picked it up but it was a bit out of my price range

 

[Finsky]

I have two Red Rose Bubble Tip anemones and three Green Bubble Tip anemones in an 18" triangular area in the left end of my tank. The two red rose and two green BTA's are ones which split. They are going on three years of age.

I just added a True Carpet Anemone in the right end of the tank.

My breeding pair of Tomato clowns sniffed out the new anemone which has taken residence in a four inch pit of live rock under a 150 watt metal halide where I placed it. I had moved a green BTA the previous day from the pit and added it to a crevice hear the other four BTA on the left end of the tank.

The tank is six years and the Tomato Clowns were put in five and a half years ago.

The female likes to sleep in the right end and slept in the Carpet Anemone on the first night on Thursday the 19th of April.

She just laid a new batch of eggs near the middle green BTA.

The male always sleeps in the right end.



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