How Much Trouble Keeping One

[Slakker]

At least 9 months IMO. This seems to be the general "rule of thumb" that will allow both you and your tank mature enough to have a somewhat reasonable shot of caring for an anemone.

In Joyce Wilkerson's book she references a survey that found that 95% of all anemones attempted by reefkeepers with less than 2 (or was it 5?) years of experience never made it to a year in captivity.

 

[RyDoggsReef]

it may be a gigantea; it was sold to me and just a carpet anemone. And dont worry... im selling my small bta and lta tomorow and im putting my bigger BTA in my nem f.o. tank. In a few days the carpet will be the only nem in there

 

[COCO]

You should first try some easy corals such as leather and then see if it is happy in your tank before introducing any anemone. While I agree that anemone will have a better chance to survive in a mature tank, at least six months old, it is very difficult to wait such a long time to see anemone hosting clowns.

If you can not wait such a long period of time I would suggest you try bubble tip anemone, which is quite hardy.

At least check your water parameters, good enough for most soft and long polyp stony corals (LPS) and always use RO water to mix salt.

If you are successful keeping bubble tip and you have strong lighting such as metal halide and decent water flow (i.e. Tunze controllable pump) then you would want to try ritteri anemone.

 

[thegyft07]

I have t5 HO, they are pretty strong I think. The curent in my tank has high spots and moderate spot due to power heads. I will try soft corals and Hard corals for the first 8 mo instaead of 6 just to be sure then Grab my Bubble Tip. Will the clowns still take to it after that long amount of time?

 

[RyDoggsReef]

You never know with a bubble tip. If you have ocellaris clowns they could take a month, or more than a year to host it; or maybe never even host it. Maroons, Clarkiis cinnamons or anything liek that will host it very fast but ocellaris will take a much longer time

 

[thegyft07]

im getting pecular. or however you spell it.

 

[thegyft07]

thank you for every thing.

 

[bergzy]

haddoni's are generally pretty hardy. bta's are pretty hardy as well.

what i have found is that bta's have always moved A LOT, annoying everything in its path, until it finds its ideal position...and even then, for whatever reason, they can start moving all over the place again.

haddoni's (my neon green haddoni anyway), tend to stay put once they find their ideal spot. mine hasnt moved in the two years once it settled into the bottom of the tank.

my haddoni is VERY sticky and no one hosts in it. i have two orange skunks and two black ocellaris. in fact, it has killed a black ocellaris that has tried to host in it.

it took basically a year for the skunks to host in the rose nem. the black ocellaris' hosted in the rose shortly after but only at night...which is kinda weird.

nem's can be tougher than they look. i would wait at least 6 months to a year to introduce a nem. they are beautiful and surprisingly delicate.