? long term experience with Waratah anenome?

[sharkdude]

I purchased this guy almost two months ago.

He seems to be doing well and eating often, but I was unaware they are considered temperate/cold water species.

http://saltcorner.com/sections/zoo/inverts/softcorals/anemones/Atenebrosa.htm
http://www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/a_tenebrosa.html

I'm hoping they are fairly tolerable and hardy being from the intertidal zone.

anyone keep one long term? anyone have one reproduce/split?

any advice appreciated.

 

[rabidcrab]

i like it, very cool, never seen one in my shop

 

[steveweast]

I've had several of them for over two years. They are mouth brooders.....and I have tiny ones everywhere. I keep my tank at 55 F though.

 

[rabidcrab]

55 jeeze... what else u keep in it?
hows ur NRG bill lol

 

[steveweast]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9411708#post9411708 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rabidcrab
55 jeeze... what else u keep in it?
hows ur NRG bill lol

I'm not sure what "NRG" is.....but, I'll assume it's your power company. It is a common misconception that running a cold tank is expensive.....in fact, it is equal or cheaper than running a warm reef. It costs the same to run a chiller that pulls 8 or 9 amps as it is to run a couple of 400 watt halides.....and cold tanks require no reactors, lighting, high flow, or heaters.

As for what else I keep....here are a few items. It's odd though.....the topic of this thread is Waratah anemones...and, I have about 15 of them....but, no close up pics. They are the least colorful anemones in my cold reef though.

 

[Jamie1210]

steveweast, do you have any good sites/forums/etc that I could read about for setting up a cold water tank? Just curious to see if u think the organisms in a cold water tank are hardier than in a reef tank, for the most part. after seeing your tank, I'm tempted to start one up myself!

Jamie

 

[steveweast]

I don't know of any cold water sites that are really that beneficial......that's one of the reasons that I dived into cold water....it's different. So far, my experience is that the critters are more hardy than their warm water cousins.....the problem however, is finding stock if you live away from the coast.

 

[EnderG60]

I have a couple of blackish ones i pulled off the rocks at the beach, they do just fine in my tank(at 80-84) been in there almost a year now too.

Im thinking of getting a few more for my fuge.

 

[Anemone]

Love the pseudocorynactis (or are they corynactis?). Very cool to see them really pop in a cold-water set up.

Kevin