Help me decide on an anemone

[AC-WEB]

This forum has been great and I am close to purchasing my first anemone in hopes my true perc hosts it. I was leaning toward an RBTA, but as I do more research i get more and more concerned. What i worry about is this anemone eating my livestock or ruining my coral.

So the questions, what kind of anemone should i get, if any, conisdering my tank size and inhabitants?!?

I have a 46 gallon bow front tank, with a lot of live rock. It's been established for two years and has a lot of great coraline. Inhabitants include a true perc, a small yellow tang, 4 blue/green chromis, cleaner shrimp, hermit crabs/snails, torch coral, pulsing xenia, star polyps, mushrooms, zoanthids, and a crocea clam. I have metal halide lighting, two powerheads, a cannister filer, and a HOB skimmer. Any feedback helps in hopes to prevent any disasters.

 

[t4zalews]

I wouldnt worry about a bubble tip eating fish. For a bubble tip to eat a fish, that fish would have been on its way out anyways. Most fish know to stay away from anemones. In your concerns on killing your corals, bubble tips while one of the easiest anemones to keep in capitivity, is known to roam around tanks until they find their happy place. In my personal experience with bubble tips, I've never had one run havoc on corals in my tank. I'd set a designated area for it and place it there. While its up to the anemone to be happy, I've found that the places that I've orignially placed them is the place they usually stay..call me lucky.

I'd find a a littel hole in the rock structure that the anemone can hide its foot...most cases, thats really all the anemone wants to do. Have a safe place for its foot. Too much flow is a deturrant as well. Good light, medium flow (not direct), and good water quality are what these anemones strive for.

 

[WDLV]

i wouldnt worry about a bubble tip eating fish. For a bubble tip to eat a fish, that fish would have been on its way out anyways. Most fish know to stay away from anemones. In your concerns on killing your corals, bubble tips while one of the easiest anemones to keep in capitivity, is known to roam around tanks until they find their happy place. In my personal experience with bubble tips, i've never had one run havoc on corals in my tank. I'd set a designated area for it and place it there. While its up to the anemone to be happy, i've found that the places that i've orignially placed them is the place they usually stay..call me lucky.

I'd find a a littel hole in the rock structure that the anemone can hide its foot...most cases, thats really all the anemone wants to do. Have a safe place for its foot. Too much flow is a deturrant as well. Good light, medium flow (not direct), and good water quality are what these anemones strive for.

+1

 

[AC-WEB]

I wouldnt worry about a bubble tip eating fish. For a bubble tip to eat a fish, that fish would have been on its way out anyways. Most fish know to stay away from anemones. In your concerns on killing your corals, bubble tips while one of the easiest anemones to keep in capitivity, is known to roam around tanks until they find their happy place. In my personal experience with bubble tips, I've never had one run havoc on corals in my tank. I'd set a designated area for it and place it there. While its up to the anemone to be happy, I've found that the places that I've orignially placed them is the place they usually stay..call me lucky.

I'd find a a littel hole in the rock structure that the anemone can hide its foot...most cases, thats really all the anemone wants to do. Have a safe place for its foot. Too much flow is a deturrant as well. Good light, medium flow (not direct), and good water quality are what these anemones strive for.

Thank you for that. I have a place selected that I think should work. I just wonder if there are other anemones that I should be considering.

 

[t4zalews]

Its really just personal preference. I've kept many kinds of anemones (GBTA, RBTA, sebae, LTA). They've all served their purposes. It you want something to stay in the rocks a bubble tip is the best choice. I have no experience with ritteri anemones, I jsut know that they are difficult to care for. Or..you can have a sand dweller (sebae, LTA, carpet) I'd say ease of care goes as teh following Easiest: BTA, LTA Medium: Sebae Hardest: Carpet, Ritteri

True percs naturally host sebaes and gig's (carpet), but they will take to any anemoen offered in the tank.

Note that clownfish will host other things as well such as frogspawns, torch corals, mushrooms.

 

[MissNano]

I was worried about a anemone eating one of my fish too. It can happen but usually wont. I have a bubble tip and i LOVE IT. My clowns have not hosted it, but i have a sexy shrimp that has taken to it.

 

[Ninjapotamus]

+1 for BTA

 

[DustinB]

From what I've read you should be more worried about the anemone getting into a powerhead and nuking the tank more than you should about it eating a fish.

 

[AC-WEB]

From what I've read you should be more worried about the anemone getting into a powerhead and nuking the tank more than you should about it eating a fish.

I have this kind of powerhead. Should I be worried and what should I do with them?

 

[DustinB]

I think that's the one that will do it. I stopped using mine until I could find a solution. I'm only running maxi-jet heads with the long filter.

I don't think one getting into is a guarantee, but I know it has and does happen. They have to detach and float around the tank, from being stressed from what I've read.