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Do you have anemone in your coral tank? Has it ever wreak havoc on your corals? Did you add the anemone to your tank before the corals like many articles suggest?

I want to have a anemone or two. I'm researching :)
 
WatDatThing said:
Do you have anemone in your coral tank? Has it ever wreak havoc on your corals? Did you add the anemone to your tank before the corals like many articles suggest?

I want to have a anemone or two. I'm researching :)
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I currently have a mini carpet anemone in my biocube, I added it after the corals and fish. It hasnt cause any troubles with the corals, but i also have it isolated on a rock island to be safe.
 
I also have a mini maxi as well as a seaba, they are great additions as long as your parameters are consistant. They will move around until they find their own spot and then it is what it is unless they are in harms way. Remember the research you did on your system before starting? do 2 times that much before buying one.
 
I picked up a bubble tip from another local reefkeeper. So far it has been doing just fine. It's relocated itself once or twice, and after about 3 months in the tank of growing bigger and bigger, it split in two.

Now I have two nice looking BTA in the tank.

So far they haven't bothered any of my corals, but the tank is mostly empty so there's plenty of room for everyone.
 
My anemone (RBTA hosting two clowns) which has split several times is my favorite thing in my tank. It is one of the least fragile things in my tank and survived a crash in which I lost almost everything.

I tried to create perfect spot for the anemone (in a hold in the rock for his foot) and he has stayed there. When he splits, I just remove the one that is moving away.

I place him before there were two many coral around but he has not done any damage to corals
 
Should I read this as an anemone or an enemy? If you intended the pun that's quite clever since anemones can be so destructive to our tanks, and themselves. I had one for a long time but it split and both halves started wandering until eventually they both found the power heads. Luckily I was able to pull the pieces out before it polluted my tank too much and I got by with only an algae bloom. If a big one does and is not removed in time it can decay fast and release a lot of ammonia into the tank.
 
ive got a condy in my current setup that i got when i had my 50l.. it grew pretty damm quick and i soon had to upgrade! (shame)
when i set my new tank up i put the condy in first, left it to find its sweet spot..... then swapped the corals over. u do have to be really sure you want one as they can be a pita and you do what they want not the other way around. all my corals are arranged around the condy and power heads are pointed in a way to keep its reach away from my coral, ive even built small rock walls as defence! but honestly its a great addition lol.


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I have 3 Bubble tips in my 75. I have then isolated on a separate rock. 1 became 2 became 3 and they all stayed on the same rock.
 

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I do not have one.. I did get one long long long many long long years ago. But they really do not appeal to me for some reason... Guess its the moving around part...
 
I started with 2 rbta's 18 months ago in a 55gal... and I now have 8 of them due to splitting. I only feed a small chunk of shrimp once a month or so. Its a good idea, if you want to keep them, to anemone-proof your powerheads. Mine are a fluorescent orange with a lime-green base, with one exception.... I have one that turned out rather drab in color. Weird. Also, I noted one of them did a 3 way split...that is, 1 split into 3 in one go. What happens when mine split is...one will always stay where is was, the other will wander until happy. If the anemone reaches a spot YOU like, feed it and you will have a better chance of it remaining there.
btw: my gold-stripe maroon is in heaven... 8 anemone's, no competition ;)


In the pic you can see 6..with the drab one just below the brighter ones on the left and a group of 3 (used to be one) in the centre bottom of pic.
 
ComforablyNumb said:
I started with 2 rbta's 18 months ago in a 55gal... and I now have 8 of them due to splitting. I only feed a small chunk of shrimp once a month or so. Its a good idea, if you want to keep them, to anemone-proof your powerheads. Mine are a beautiful fluorescent orange with a lime-green base, with one exception.... I have one that turned out rather drab in color. Weird. Also, I noted one of them did a 3 way split...that is, 1 split into 3 in one go. What happens when mine split is...one will always stay where is was, the other will wander until happy. If the anemone reaches a spot YOU like, feed it and you will have a better chance of it remaining there.
btw: my gold-stripe maroon is in heaven... 8 anemone's, no competition ;)pic.
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Very nice. How do you anemone -proof your PH? Do you have a pic? I was reading about it but I haven't found a pic of a solution that I like.
 
I have 5 rock flowers and 2 or 3 maxi mini anemones in my 125g sps and lps reef tank. They have never been a problem. They also come in great colors and fluoresce like crazy under blue leds.



 
Couple rather large rock flowers(one is the size of a compact disk), once they found a spot they haven't moved in over 9 months. My torch tries to sting the one rock flower, but I don't think its affecting it one bit.
 
I got mine from a LFS who I'm friends with. He sold 100 of them to an LFS in Denver for MACNA. He was selling them for $100 or $125 each and was sold out by 2PM on Sunday when I left!
 
Ron Reefman said:
I got mine from a LFS who I'm friends with. He sold 100 of them to an LFS in Denver for MACNA. He was selling them for $100 or $125 each and was sold out by 2PM on Sunday when I left!
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In term of care, are rock flowers hard to care for compare to bubble tip for a beginner reefer?

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