captbunzo
Premium Member
Yesterday I dived into the world of anemones when I bought a lovely specimen of Entacmea quadricolor from one of my two Local Fish Stores. Ok, so maybe I shouldn't be a dork and should just call it a Bubble Tip Anemone. Or a Bulb Tip Anemone. Or that crude discription my wife gave for the shape of the tips of the tentacles. Or was that me??? Ummm...
http://flickr.com/photos/captbunzo/152544237/in/set-72057594143172842/
Anyhow, I took it home and used the Float & Add Water Acclimation Method over the course of a couple hours. Then I place the sucker in the tank on the sand under a rock arch and watched it over the next 4-5 hours or so. Here are some pics of my new baby sitting on the sand under the arch.
These first three pics show it under some different lights. I thought it was a green BTA when I saw it in the store, but I am a letter less sure now. In some lights, this looks almost like it might be a rose BTA. Whatcha think? And of course I had to take a Flashless Actinic Shot.
Here is a sort of close-up shot, and then a cropped and contract / brightness tweaked version of the same pic. Again, still not sure on the Red vs. Green bit.
In the store, the silly people had it on crushed coral (ok, that was good for getting it out of the tank) and in a tank with NO actinic lighting. The don't believe you really need to feed anemones, so it is probably not 100% at it's best. But overall it looks pretty good... AFAIK, at least...
Ok, so after being in my tank for a bit, it decided to let go of most of the crushed coral and was getting blow about a tiny bit, mushing up against a candycane coral. So I decided it was time to get it on a rock. After a little encouragement, it grabbed onto some rocks and crawled to the side a bit.
Here are some pics, either from last night or this morning...
I did feed a piece of krill to it last night, which it took fine. Today I a going to pick up some Silversides from the other local LFS. I plan to feed it a combination of some good sized krill, silversides, and probably some frozen formula one cubes. As for lighting, I have T5 HO with good reflectors. I assume it will make it's way up the rockwork toward the light pretty soon.
All that sound great to all of you? Any tips, things to watch for? Does it look good, as far as you can tell from the pics?
http://flickr.com/photos/captbunzo/152544237/in/set-72057594143172842/
Anyhow, I took it home and used the Float & Add Water Acclimation Method over the course of a couple hours. Then I place the sucker in the tank on the sand under a rock arch and watched it over the next 4-5 hours or so. Here are some pics of my new baby sitting on the sand under the arch.
These first three pics show it under some different lights. I thought it was a green BTA when I saw it in the store, but I am a letter less sure now. In some lights, this looks almost like it might be a rose BTA. Whatcha think? And of course I had to take a Flashless Actinic Shot.
Here is a sort of close-up shot, and then a cropped and contract / brightness tweaked version of the same pic. Again, still not sure on the Red vs. Green bit.
In the store, the silly people had it on crushed coral (ok, that was good for getting it out of the tank) and in a tank with NO actinic lighting. The don't believe you really need to feed anemones, so it is probably not 100% at it's best. But overall it looks pretty good... AFAIK, at least...
Ok, so after being in my tank for a bit, it decided to let go of most of the crushed coral and was getting blow about a tiny bit, mushing up against a candycane coral. So I decided it was time to get it on a rock. After a little encouragement, it grabbed onto some rocks and crawled to the side a bit.
Here are some pics, either from last night or this morning...
I did feed a piece of krill to it last night, which it took fine. Today I a going to pick up some Silversides from the other local LFS. I plan to feed it a combination of some good sized krill, silversides, and probably some frozen formula one cubes. As for lighting, I have T5 HO with good reflectors. I assume it will make it's way up the rockwork toward the light pretty soon.
All that sound great to all of you? Any tips, things to watch for? Does it look good, as far as you can tell from the pics?
