Corals in danger?

[Tyrinius]

I introduced 2 condylactis' to my 150 gal. reef tank today (never had them before). I am extremely worried about the stinging power of these anemones since one of them is moving around. I have a torch coral, sun coral (doing well), star polyps, mushroooms, green wells, toadstool, turbinaria (cup coral), 2 yellow-tail damsels, blue-throated trigger, 3 PJ cardinals, 2 coral banded shrimp, fire shrimp, 6 line wrasse, rabbitfish, lawnmower blenny, 2 sand sifting gobies, cinnamon clown among others. I am asking for anyone with experience on condy's for help. I am afraid that it's movement around the tank may kill the corals it comes into contact with. Please advise if I should remove them immediately. Thank you for any assistance.

 

[sarahkucera]

Re: Corals in danger?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7749458#post7749458 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tyrinius
I introduced 2 condylactis' to my 150 gal. reef tank today (never had them before). I am extremely worried about the stinging power of these anemones since one of them is moving around. I have a torch coral, sun coral (doing well), star polyps, mushroooms, green wells, toadstool, turbinaria (cup coral), 2 yellow-tail damsels, blue-throated trigger, 3 PJ cardinals, 2 coral banded shrimp, fire shrimp, 6 line wrasse, rabbitfish, lawnmower blenny, 2 sand sifting gobies, cinnamon clown among others. I am asking for anyone with experience on condy's for help. I am afraid that it's movement around the tank may kill the corals it comes into contact with. Please advise if I should remove them immediately. Thank you for any assistance.

It may very well have some warfare with anything it runs into. Can you keep an eye on it and move your corals out of the way as it's moving around?
My RBTA wandered around quite a bit when I first added it and my LTA hasn't moved once, although the LTA has only been in there for about a week. The difference is that the RBTA is a rock preferring anemone (although mine has decided to live on the glass), and the LTA is a sand based anemone.
While any anemone will wander when it's first trying to find it's happy place, a sand based anemone will have less of a likelihood to run into stuff because it most likely won't go up into the rocks.

Good luck!

 

[Tyrinius]

Thank you for the reply and information. I will continue to keep watch and cross my fingers.