getting a lta -- please help with acclimation advice

[pitmindi]

Hi, I just ordered from divers den a purple long tentacle anemone for 125.00. Its about 3". It will arrive next week. I never had an anemone. How do I acclimate and should I have a rock on my sand for it, or put it directly on the sand near the base of my rocks, or in the middle of the sand area. Also, do I bury it in the sand...(i'd rather not disturb my sand bed but let the anemone bury itself). THe sand surface area of the place for the anemone is about 7" x 12". Will someone please tell me how to post a tank picture for a better visual picture of my tank. My tank is 90gal, 48", 7" deep sandbed, 18" from sand surface to tank top, 25 gallon refurium with macro algae, AquaticLife T5 HO four bulb fixture with 10,000, 12,000 bulbs on for 6 hours and 2 actinic bulbs (ATI blue plus)on for 10 hours. Temp is about 82 and 84 in the summer. I have many frogspawn, hammer, zoas, mushroom and a gorgeous cynarita and 2 gorgeous meaty brains plus 1 clown, 1 flame angel, 2 wrasses, mandarin, 2 anthias. My tank is 15 months.

 

[kduen]

Create a photobucket account (its free). Upload your pictures to photobucket, once complete if you put the cursor on the picture right under it it will show a bounch of codes. click in the "IMG" code area and it should say copied. Then simply paste into the message field and viola your pictures go from this

http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l579/Kris_Duensing/9jan11017.jpg

to this ( Ignore the date stamp)

 

[HanoverFist]

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/macrodoreensis.htm

 

[pitmindi]

I plan to put the lta on the left on the sand. Should I put any rocks there or leave that whole area open? What corals will the lta sting? Should I move the acans or the frogspawn? Is my lighting ok and should I increase the duration of the white lights to 7 hours or 8 hours? Do lta need white lights or actinic?n THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!! I REALLY DONT WANT TO KILL IT!

 

[Conrad25]

The LTA will sting just about anything he can touch coral wise, so its safer to move any corals he can be within reach of. Also I would dig into the sand making a partial hole in the left corner or atleast an indent to help him get started on the process of digging into the sand bed. Any nem likes the same light your giving to your corals as long as its powerful enough. I would increase lighting to 8 hours for your whites to be on as its been proven in studies long term to be better. I wouldn't put any rocks in the bed with the LTA as he likes sand and doesn't care to move onto rocks at all. Also it looks like you may have the powerhead in the back right corner not really giving flow to the front left, make sure to have flow going towards that area of the tank as they will like some flow instead of random flow once in a while like some other corals like.

I would slow drip acclimate the LTA just like any other coral except at a very slow pace, atleast an hour if not more depending on your patience as longer than that can even be better.

Conrad