Do you think I can keep a gigantea in a tank this size?

[Faye]

Elos midi-36 gallons.

Approx 23''x20''x20''

The gigantea would be the only thing in the tank, and a pair of occelaris clowns.

 

[Faye]

Anyone?

 

[Pamocanthus]

Gigantea get gigantic!! Pardon the pun...

Gigantea get gigantic!! Pardon the pun...

Sorry but not nearly enough room. I bought on from my lfs about two years ago and in that time it has grown from 10 to 24 inches in diameter!! It is starting to get too big for my 180

 

[Faye]

Yeah I kinda knew they got to be like 3ft lol.

 

[Cheebs]

I have one in my 40 Gal breeder, but I have little else in there. Unless you are aiming for a species tank, I'd say know. Even then it's pushing it.

 

[Faye]

Yeah if I got it, it would def be a species tank. I could always get a small one and get rid of it as it gets larger if I really wanted to do it.

 

[elegance coral]

I wouldn't attempt it unless you had a large sump. It's just to much animal for that amount of water.

 

[Faye]

I'm not sure what size the sump is. It is the same sump in the elos system 70. I might go with a smaller/hardier nem to be on the safe side though. I'm def not going with a bta though, too common.

 

[garygb]

Though I have never had one, Heteractis malu is less common and considerably smaller than gigantea. However, they are sand dwellers, in contrast to gigantea, which are generally up on in the rocks.

 

[Faye]

That's fine. I will have ample sand in the tank.

 

[Faye]

What are the natural clowns for the malu?

 

[garygb]

Natural would be clarikii. H. malu only hosts clarkii in nature. However, in aquariums they sometimes play host to other species.

 

[jonnybravo22]

my experience is slightly different than the advice you've gotten so far. i kept one in a biocube 29 for a few months before i cracked the tank and had to move more quickly to my elos 70. but it was doing fine in the biocube with regular water changes. note my biocube had been modified with the addition of an ~10 gallon sump. that said, it was a relatively small gigantea (maybe 7 inches extended).

so if your anemone is smallish and you dont have other stuff in the tank taking up room (like lots of sps / lps / rocks constricting it's ability to get good flow and stretch out), i think you'd be fine for quite a while. if you dont feed it directly it wont grow quickly.

my 2 cents.

 

[OrionN]

My Malu pair, Purple is the female and green is the male. In a 30 g tank with a breeding Onyx. This picture was taken right after they spawned (the anemones)

 

[elegance coral]

my experience is slightly different than the advice you've gotten so far. i kept one in a biocube 29 for a few months before i cracked the tank and had to move more quickly to my elos 70. but it was doing fine in the biocube with regular water changes. note my biocube had been modified with the addition of an ~10 gallon sump. that said, it was a relatively small gigantea (maybe 7 inches extended).

so if your anemone is smallish and you dont have other stuff in the tank taking up room (like lots of sps / lps / rocks constricting it's ability to get good flow and stretch out), i think you'd be fine for quite a while. if you dont feed it directly it wont grow quickly.

my 2 cents.

"a few months" doesn't even give the anemone time to recover from shipping stress. It surely isn't enough time to make the determination that the living conditions are adequate. Anemones live for a few months in LFS's under horrible conditions.

 

[sqwat]

in a 37 gallon species only i would find a purple lat they get to 20 inches fast if fed right and lighting is good.i have a purple lta and i also have a beautifull rbta in a seperate tank that is amazing rare colratuion red green orange loaded with breen dots i got it from a very reputable dealer online foe buko $ .it was worth it and now is 15 inches across and has not split i didnt no they got that big .but my purple lta looks ener better then the rbta.long flowing purple tentacles that corkskrew at the end.he has six inches of sand and it glues to the bottom and is very large i say 15 to 19 inches .put a nicse dsp in the tank and get a purple lta it will look amazing.