First Haddoni! Custom tank made for my wife

[andrewkw]

The anemone looks great, he start to regain his Zooxanthellae in some area. This will spread to the rest of the anemone shortly (week).
I keep lots of anemone and don't feed them fish food. I use seafood mean for human consumption. These food are fresher and have minimal chance of being spoiled. Frozen fish food sometime don't get the care like those mean for human consumption. Feeding them spoiled food mean a very sick, likely dead anemone.
Haddoni are fish eater. If you keep fish other than clowns with carpets, you may loose them. Not always but may.
Lastly, I would not recommend macro algae in that tank. Mark my word, you will be sorry if you eradicate them right now.
Nice tank, best of luck.
And please don't get bother by some of the comments. You cannot control them, and some people can post things that they will not say to a person face to face.

Thanks, my annoyance is with people and their STUPID comments not mean comments. It should be obvious there are NO FISH in this tank, none, not even clownfish (yet). Besides the fact I mention it several times, there are plenty of pictures to show this. I mention the mysids and pods running around which obviously wouldn't happen during daylight hours if there were fish.

"100% bleached" when it's obviously getting darker. Saying I should feed it when I mention several times feeding it. I'm not writing novels, if you can't read a few paragraphs why are you bothering to reply? From now on I will photograph us feeding it since it's apparently not believable we take care of it.

As a reminder this is my first haddoni anemone and my wife's first tank, but I also have bubble tips, mini carpet anemones, rock flower anemones and have kept anemones for close to 10 years. The fact that we built this tank for the anemone should show we are aware they will eat fish instead of just throwing it in my 180 which this tank is plumbed to also mentioned in first post. If you want to criticize that's fine. Just take 30 seconds to see what I've already wrote or at least look at the pictures..

Finally OrionN I didn't add the macro. This is rock I've had for years. Frankly I was shocked it came back as the rock sat wet but mostly unattended for years (high salinity little to no flow / temp control). At this point it will be very tricky to remove it without tearing the tank down but I will trim it down soon.

 

[OrionN]

My mistake with Macro algae was 20 years ago. I have a 120 gal tank. Got so fed up with algae that none of the fish will eat. I took the rock out piece by piece and use a tweezers to remove all the bits of algae I can find. I have to do this twice before I got rid of everything. The second time, about 2 weeks after the first time when the algae have visible growth again.

 

[mav3rick478]

Reminds me of the Haddoni I had long ago. Feeding it shrimp from the seafood counter at your grocery store will really make that sucker grow. When I had mine it took forever for the clowns to bond with it. Actually it killed one clown at night because it got caught in the current and swept into the anemone, it was dead by morning laying in the corner of the tank. Shortly after the other clown decided to bond with the anemone and it was an awesome sight seeing it drag a whole shrimp that I would drop in the tank to the anemone. Then at night seeing the clown in between the folds of the anemone like a hotdog. Tank looks great. What percentages are you running and duration, I have a SuperLux and am still experimenting.

 

[cherokee1264]

Thanks, my annoyance is with people and their STUPID comments not mean comments. It should be obvious there are NO FISH in this tank, none, not even clownfish (yet). Besides the fact I mention it several times, there are plenty of pictures to show this. I mention the mysids and pods running around which obviously wouldn't happen during daylight hours if there were fish.

"100% bleached" when it's obviously getting darker. Saying I should feed it when I mention several times feeding it. I'm not writing novels, if you can't read a few paragraphs why are you bothering to reply? From now on I will photograph us feeding it since it's apparently not believable we take care of it.

As a reminder this is my first haddoni anemone and my wife's first tank, but I also have bubble tips, mini carpet anemones, rock flower anemones and have kept anemones for close to 10 years. The fact that we built this tank for the anemone should show we are aware they will eat fish instead of just throwing it in my 180 which this tank is plumbed to also mentioned in first post. If you want to criticize that's fine. Just take 30 seconds to see what I've already wrote or at least look at the pictures..

Finally OrionN I didn't add the macro. This is rock I've had for years. Frankly I was shocked it came back as the rock sat wet but mostly unattended for years (high salinity little to no flow / temp control). At this point it will be very tricky to remove it without tearing the tank down but I will trim it down soon.

Some people just don't read the thread...what a shame. That Hadonni looks like he's doing just fine. Mine was bleached when I got it but it came back beautiful and I NEVER FED IT! Looks yours is going to come back the same color as mine. The ATI bulbs don't do it justice in the photo but it's full of color, keep up the good work!

 

[mnchartier]

He said it was bleached due to this picture, it looks almost transparent.

 

[cherokee1264]

Depending on the lighting because of the actual color of the anemone mine looks the same way. It's not even close to being bleached or transparent. This is mine under ATI Coral and Blue +

 

[asudavew]

He said it was bleached due to this picture, it looks almost transparent.

He should have looked at the closeup.

The nem looks like it is doing very well.
Keep on keeping on!

Don't give up on the thread. Some of us enjoy looking and learning!

Have you decided what kind of clowns?

 

[OrionN]

He was bleached, but not 100% since he is regaining his color.

 

[andrewkw]

Looking at him now vs when we first got him what a difference!

 

[IdahoCindy]

I'm loving the "no-fish" look. The macro algae and the pods, etc. are being allowed to grow naturally. Some fish eat that algae like candy!