Could I try an LTA....

[reefman13]

My BTA has not faired my whole tank upgrade so well. It is still alive and eating, but not so happy.......Now, even if it does live and survive (hoping it will), I have never had a pair of clowns that would host it. So I was wondering, if I have two 250W MH w/ two 48W HOT5's for supplement, would it be able to thrive in a tank w/ near stable conditions with a 1.5/2" SB? The tank is going to/is mainly SPS, and I am not really worried with the anemones stinging my corals, as most of them will be towards the top anyway, and well, my aneomes always seem to find a home in good locations

So what do you experts (guys) think?

Thanks!

 

[Lance M.]

I think it would be fine. I would maybe wait until the bta is healthy just incase there is allelopathy.

What do you mean by near stable?

 

[garygb]

I think that generally a BTA is hardier than an LTA, so if your BTA isn't thriving, I would work on getting that one in good shape before considering another anemone. And, no to an LTA being happy in a 1-2inch sand bed, 5 or 6 inches is necessary or it will wander.

 

[Lance M.]

My lta's are happy with a 2'' deep sand bed and I've seen a couple people here that keep or have kept lta's and other sand dwelling nem's in bb tanks.

 

[garygb]

I had one for years (sadly it died when a heater malfunctioned and I was on vacation) and it would wander every so often until I put it in a deep sand bed (inside a PVC pipe that was sealed on the bottom). If I put it in a PVC pipe that wasn't sealed, eventually it would start to move and would dig the PVC pipe up. It was a large LTA, beautiful rose colored, similar to a RBTA.

 

[traveller7]

Re: Could I try an LTA....

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11366210#post11366210 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefman13
My BTA has not faired my whole tank upgrade so well. It is still alive and eating, but not so happy

Would not be wise to add a new anemone to the tank until the above question is addressed.

Pass on it until you get the current environment sorted out.

Good luck.

 

[reefman13]

Well, it is still in my holding tank where I was keeping everything until I had the new tank fully up and running. So I wouldn't know how it will do in the new tank..............

But, I was gonna wait anyway......

 

[davocean]

2 nems in a 90g is what made me bump to a 180g!
If I were to do it all over again I'd only have one nem, especially if you like corals.
An LTA would probably do OK in shallow sand, if you had a container w/ more sand for it that would be better.
LTA's and sebaes do stay put better.

 

[reefman13]

How can one silicone a piece of PVC to the glass of the tank? -This sounds like it might be a good idea. I have places where my powerheads blow the sand into a pile behind the rocks, so I could use some sand from there....

 

[garygb]

At Home Depot you can get 6 inch pieces of PVC, that are 6 inches in diameter. There are end-pieces that fit the PVC, and I just used aquarium silicon to glue it on. After it had set, I filled it about half full of aragonite fine grade sand, let the anemone dig in, then added a little more sand until the sand went to the top of the PVC pipe.