Mini Pink Tipped Green Anemones

[Neptune777]

Anyone have those mini pink tipped green anemones that Greg Hiller has on his site? Perhaps you could share some more pics....

Here is a link with a picture (at the bottom of the page).....

http://www.exoticreefs.us/farmer_greg_hiller.htm

Are they truly safe with corals?

 

[TOURKID]

they are also called tulip anemones. you could try a search on that

 

[finding nemo]

I have them and wish I did'nt , they multiply like crazy and sting whatever gets in there way, I have been killing them off as fast as I see new ones pop up.
They would be great in a species tank but not a mixed one.
I have started them in a 15 gallon and they are doing nicely.

 

[Neptune777]

Thx guys......not so "reef safe" huh.... They look pretty cool....Finding nemo do you have some recent pics?

 

[Neptune777]

Also, are they really that green and have pink tips that bright or is it like that under actinics only?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I maintain Tulip anemones in a mixed 225 gallon reef aquarium (click on red house icon in my post to see) and I agree with Hiller's assessment.

 

[finding nemo]

Sure do, this is before I started to kill them off, I ended up killing over half of the zoos to get rid of the little pests.
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[Neptune777]

Finding Nemo,
Were they actually stressing your corals? Your zoas look pretty happy with the Tulip in the mix....I am considering looking for some but I dont want to end up with something that stings the crap out of my other corals...

 

[finding nemo]

Neptune, no they didnt bother the zoos other then crowding them out.
I found that the xenia were being stung however so they had to go, found 4 more today and boiled them out.
If I could get them out of the rockwork I would take them out and put them in the small tank as they are very pretty and prolific.
But they are a nuesence in the big tanks.
I have had some pup up in the 125 so had to take care of them also as love my xenia much more then the tulips.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

IME anemones (of any type) can possibly irritate Zoanthids. (See the closed up polyps?)

 

[finding nemo]

HI Gary, your right. But they usually open back up. But this one rock had over a thousand green zoos on it and it was being overtaken by tulips so they had to go.
Since the zoos take forever to multiply I would rather have them then the anemones.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Understandable.

 

[finding nemo]

 

[crp]

I have some:

I only have about 5 right now and they don't seem to bother anything. I've had them for a while and they haven't multiplied yet, just gotten a little bigger.

 

[Neptune777]

cool!

 

[sarahkucera]

I've got two and they've grown a bit but haven't multiplied or moved or anything annoying like that.
But I've also got a 120 gallon that isn't heavily stocked. If it was heavily stocked I wouldn't have put them in there.