ponokareefer
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Has there been many people with success doing this? I have a Gigantea and LTA in my 240 gallon, and have an opportunity to get a Sebae that has been in a tank for 7 years.
Multiple different species in same tank
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CoralsAddiction
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The most common combination that occurs in the wild appears to be Clarkii and Skunk clowns either sharing an anemone or living nearby each other. That doesn't mean you will be successful but you can try. If that be the case, adding all clowns at the same time would be a good idea.
CoralsAddiction
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Fast forward the video below to 2:13 and you will see what appears to be an Allardi pair with a pink skunk right by them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ryhOz93_jM&index=13&list=PLvlrqIc20Znxl8-Pwu6FcodQA5Jzkfoci
Then there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdoSWr5Lg04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ryhOz93_jM&index=13&list=PLvlrqIc20Znxl8-Pwu6FcodQA5Jzkfoci
Then there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdoSWr5Lg04
Winwood
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What a great video! Just for the record that's chrysopterus and not allardi though. I also believe the original poster might be asking about keeping multiple anemone species together and not clowns.
CoralsAddiction
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Yup I think you are right on both counts. Lol.
ponokareefer
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Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I am talking about anemones not clownfish. I don't want multiple clown pairs and WW3 in my tank.
ponokareefer
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Awesome videos BTW. The water flow around the anemones is what i'm trying to simulate in my tank. My Gigantea parked itself about 4 inches from the side of my powerhead to get similar flow as you see in the videos. It makes me nervous that it is so close but it seems happy there.
enchelycore808
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ATM I have a haddoni, GBTA, mini maxi and rock flowers all in the same system with no problems. I run carbon In a DIY reactor and change about 20% once every two weeks. Tank is a 50g cube frag system.
I have a large 13" pink/red haddoni, a 9" purple gigantea and a 5" green gigantea and a few mini maxis roaming around(though they don't seem to like my T5's). I haven't had any issues thus far and it's a 30x30 cube. The more difficult task IMO is creating flow the correct amount of flow for all your nems. Haddoni like low flow areas while gigs need high flow. I still have to install my 2nd MP40 for my gigs while hoping my monster haddoni doesn't move.
Winwood
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Just from personal observation, in my opinion, the biggest offenders of using alleopathy are ritteri anemones. In the past when I kept multiple magnificas together, often times one would emerge as the dominant anemone and grow while others would struggle. Also I've seen haddoni anemones that were planted for months get up and move when a magnifica was introduced to the same system. I have mixed many of the other hosting species with little to no problems.
ponokareefer
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I think i'll try to give it a shot then.
phender
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FWIW, In my experience sebae anemones (H. crispa) may not play well with others. Here is what happened in my situation. I had a gigantea and a sebae in the same 60 gal. tank for about a year and all was fine. For some reason the sebae started a growth spurt. This growth spurt directly coincided with the decline and eventual death of my previously healthy gig.
In another situation I had a 40 gallon tank with a fairly large sebae. The anemone thrived, but I couldn't keep anything else in that tank.
A 240 gal tank may be OK, but I would keep a close I on your gigantea and add a carbon filter if you don't already have one.
In another situation I had a 40 gallon tank with a fairly large sebae. The anemone thrived, but I couldn't keep anything else in that tank.
A 240 gal tank may be OK, but I would keep a close I on your gigantea and add a carbon filter if you don't already have one.
CoralsAddiction
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I love Crispas but they love to poop a lot and add so much waste to bioload. It's one of the reasons I stopped keeping them. Otherwise they are great.
ponokareefer
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Well, here it is on the first day.
davocean
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I've never heard this, but you know you don't have to spot feed them right?
Good light will give what they need.
OP, that looks great, hope it stays friendly.
Expect that crispa to stretch out a bit, my last one grew to 2' in diameter.
ponokareefer
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This one was about 1.5 feet across, including tentacles, and was in the tank for 7 years.
ponokareefer
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Here are some updated pictures from today.
ponokareefer
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Very nice - let everyone in on your lighting and flow...
I've got 4 Radions, 2-4 foot 2 bulb T5's for lighting. I've got 2 Jebao RW20's and 1 Jebao RW15 plus return for flow.
