Can corals be kept with anemones???
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travisurfer
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anemones can kill corals when they move. if you want an anemone get it first and then stock corals once it settles in. give it plenty of space for growth. there is still no guarantee that your corals wont be stung. remember to do a ton of research before you get an anemone.
I already have a sebae, I also placed a large colony of zoas near it and the zoas closest to the anemone closed up. How much space is needed between them or should I keep my anemone i a seperate tank from corals? I'd hate to keep MH's on a tank for only a single anemone. Are there some types of corals that would do better than others in the same tank with the sebae?
Separate tank is safer. Anemones do fine under T5, VHO. I kept anemones before we ever had MH. But a sebae is bad about wandering, and if it does, will be a case of mutual suicide with everything it runs into. If you create a good rock barrier pocket and get that anemone stable, you can possibly manage with lps and sps, but if it gets annoyed, it's going to be an expensive disaster. Leathers and zoas and anemones are not a good mix because the softies discharge warring chemicals that really touch off an anemone's desire to be elsewhere.
We've had a sebae now for almost 17 months and it really doesn't wander much at all, if any. Biggest move it ever made was pulling its foot out of the sand at the front of the tank and putting it in the rocks behind it. It seems to be a very laid back anemone, even when our goby got scared in a move and hid with the clowns, under the nem tentacles, it was fine. We did shoo it away though, didn't want to take any chances!
We've got anthelia, zoanthids, gsp, mushrooms, two toadstools (a small one for a friend) blastos, candy canes/trumpets, trachyphillia, hammer, and a few sps. We have MH on the tank too. There were some zoas growing near the nem, and they are closed up, but I don't know if it's so much from being stung or lack of light, the nem creates quite a bit of shade. What's happened though, is that the nem takes up about half of our tank (it's a 30 gal, some of the livestock will move to the 75 in a bit), so when we add things, we don't add on the side the nem is on. Over there we put up with the bare rock since the nem stops things from growing. So far this has worked for us, we just know not to put things with in the nems reach if we want to keep it.
HTH!
We've got anthelia, zoanthids, gsp, mushrooms, two toadstools (a small one for a friend) blastos, candy canes/trumpets, trachyphillia, hammer, and a few sps. We have MH on the tank too. There were some zoas growing near the nem, and they are closed up, but I don't know if it's so much from being stung or lack of light, the nem creates quite a bit of shade. What's happened though, is that the nem takes up about half of our tank (it's a 30 gal, some of the livestock will move to the 75 in a bit), so when we add things, we don't add on the side the nem is on. Over there we put up with the bare rock since the nem stops things from growing. So far this has worked for us, we just know not to put things with in the nems reach if we want to keep it.
HTH!
