looking for anemone
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dantodd
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how many watts of T5 are in your kit and what color/temp lights do you have installed? Also, post your water parameters and temperature. Anemone need very stable water.
There aren't really any "easy to care for" anemones but bubble tips are generally considered the least difficult.
There aren't really any "easy to care for" anemones but bubble tips are generally considered the least difficult.
sarahkucera
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Re: looking for anemone
Yeah, definitely not enough lighting for any of the anemones. I've got 4x96 watts on a 120 gallon and I'm at the lowest reccomended end of the lighting that will keep my RBTA and LTA happy.
Also, your tank is a little small for hosting anemones. The smallest of the anemones, maybe an RBTA or something would work in your tank if you increased the lighting over the tank, but I always hesitate reccomending an anemone to someone with such a small tank because water is harder to keep stable in a smaller tank.
Clowns don't need an anemone to survive in a tank and will host just about anything. Clowns have been known to host mag floats, powerheads, hairy mushrooms, star polyps, and various corals.
Yeah, definitely not enough lighting for any of the anemones. I've got 4x96 watts on a 120 gallon and I'm at the lowest reccomended end of the lighting that will keep my RBTA and LTA happy.
Also, your tank is a little small for hosting anemones. The smallest of the anemones, maybe an RBTA or something would work in your tank if you increased the lighting over the tank, but I always hesitate reccomending an anemone to someone with such a small tank because water is harder to keep stable in a smaller tank.
Clowns don't need an anemone to survive in a tank and will host just about anything. Clowns have been known to host mag floats, powerheads, hairy mushrooms, star polyps, and various corals.
sarahkucera
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The options were I take the anemone with me or the owner was draining the tank and throwing it in the garbage.
I was a little worried about it, I figured the least I could do was take it and see if I could rehome it or something instead of letting her die.
First day I thought it was going to die:
<img src="http://www.midnightmadness.org/sarah/saltwater/071106/DSC08866.JPG" width=600 height=484>
Second day it looked great and ate.
In two weeks it was regaining color:
<img src="http://www.midnightmadness.org/sarah/saltwater/072306/DSC09490.JPG" width=800 height=600>
After 6 weeks with me she's regained a lot of its color, is eating like a pig and hasn't moved an inch from where I put it in at. Her tentacles have doubled in length in the last 4 weeks since I took that last picture, she looks great.
There are so many opinions on what sort of lighting is necessary for different species of anemone, and while I am at one of the lower ends for the LTA, it's working for me. If at any point I worried about her she would go off to a new home or I would change out my lighting right away.
sarahkucera
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Just an FYI, my 120 is a 48"x24"x24" Oceanic Reef Ready tank and my lights are 3 inches above the water. The tank is a very stable 7 year old set up with tons of pods, 150 lbs or so of LR and no refugium.
well i would like to correct you two in the fact that her lights may be plenty bright. 24 watts SO what. do any of you know what t -5 lighting is??? if not look at grims many threads and you will find out a little, he did a test where he found with individual reflectors cant reamember the exact lenght or wattage of the bulbs but anyway these bulbs put out more par to the bottom of the tank, and were brighter than metal halide. im not trying to flame anyone here, im jsut simply saying if you dont know much about her lights dont say she cant keep an anemone. anyway, i think a bubble tip would suit your needs. like stated above no anemones are easy to care for, but bubbles are the most forgiving. do you have individual reflectors though??? its the reflectors that give the t-5 its power boost. good luck and happy reefing oo and i believe when she said 24 watts she meant each bulb, so im gonna guess you have a total of 4 bulbs which would make 96 wats of t-5 but with the reflectors youll be jsut fine. again sorry if i came off rude, but i jsut hate seeing people being pushed away from somthing, when they could accually pretty easily keep it.
dantodd
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I am quite familiar with T5s thank you. I am actually considering changing to T5s on my 72 bow front. If, in fact she has 4X24 in a 29 I would think that is plenty for a BTA or haddoni . In fact it will probably enough for an LTA.
I can only make a recommendation as asked for based on what I am given. If in fact she has a total of 24w of T5 I don't believe it will be appropriate for a BTA.
I can only make a recommendation as asked for based on what I am given. If in fact she has a total of 24w of T5 I don't believe it will be appropriate for a BTA.
sarahkucera
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The original poster has stated that she has 24W of lighting and dantodd replied "a total of 24w will not be sufficient". I'm not going to assume that she has any different lighting than she has stated. You're being kind of rude to us based on assumptions that you have made when we haven't been making any.
I'm well aware of what T5 lighting is and 24 watts of T5 lighting is not going to keep an anemone alive. I'm making my reccomendations based off of the facts of her written word. If she has some other lighting than she has stated, she should have been more clear when asking for reccomendations via the written word that her written word was correct.
I would push anyone away from an anemone that has 24 watts of lighting, as would anyone who knows anything at all about anemones.
55semireef
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Keeping a BTA in 29 gallon tank, with only 24 watts of lighting and having the tank been up only 6 months is not that easy there.
wow if you guys wanna be so defensive please go pack to her post when she said what kind of lights she had. lets see eaxct quote is .....( i want to say they are 24 watt with the daytime / night time / moonlight settings. ) i am only 15 and i picked up on the they. so pleqase dont yell at me for being rude, when she said i want to say THEY are 24 watt. also can you show my any t-5 bulb combo that wold have a daytime night time and moonlight setting and is only a total of 24 watts. again i will say i wasnt tying to be rude, but please read her post carfully before offering advice. i dont know of nay t-5 bulbs under 24 watts, and she for sure has 2 daytime and nightime. also 55 semireef i am only 15, and have a 29 gallon and have\ am easily keeping c,ams sps and anemones ( haddon, and bubble ) so it is easily done, if she keeps it stable . again i was called rude, but i am simply pointing out that if you read her post, you can tell theres no way shed only have a total of 24 watts, she has to have more.
T5's are easily found as low as 4 watts:
http://www.bulbbarn.com/main.aspx?sgrp=3-27
Actually there is no way we can tell what she has, but she may only have a single 24wt tube(also available on that page) and the nightime/moonlight is strictly an LED.
fwiw: Lets agree we need more information on the lighting before we make any recommendations.
Thanks.
Nikki
I am not sure you would want to keep an anemone in such a small tank expecial bubble tips as they can be real bulldozers what other livestock corals, etc do you have, or you plan on keeping? Every few months or so my anmone decides to wander and god help anything thats in its way. Well good luck what ever you decide on.
to the guys debating why not ask her the the total output of the lights she has as aposed to argueing over nothing. Not tring to flame just tring to help.
Rob
I am not sure you would want to keep an anemone in such a small tank expecial bubble tips as they can be real bulldozers what other livestock corals, etc do you have, or you plan on keeping? Every few months or so my anmone decides to wander and god help anything thats in its way. Well good luck what ever you decide on.
to the guys debating why not ask her the the total output of the lights she has as aposed to argueing over nothing. Not tring to flame just tring to help.
Rob
