Hello everyone! So here's just some background, i currently have an established 3 gallon picotope. stock is 2 black australian clownfish(paired), 4 hermit crabs, 2 turbo snails. Corals consist of a torch,a green star polyp, a red/blue mushroom, and a kenya tree. everything is good in this tank. Now for the issue. I recently set up a 55 gallon tank with lots of live rock. It cycled pretty fast actually within 3 weeks. I bought an anemone from the LFS. they told me the name, but i cant remember. Regretably, i thought that anemones were pretty much the same concept as corals and BOY WAS I WRONG, i was not aware they needed a mature tank and will not make that mistake again. from the research i did when i got home, my sandbed is not deep enough. I have it in between 2 rocks in a pile of sand and gravel. Also, i did not know anemones move, which is another issue. I dont really blame the lfs because i was not knowledgle on anemones. but im gonna try and make it work. Basically, i just want to know what type of anemone it is and what flow and lighting it likes from your experiences. Any help would be greatly appreciated I'll show a picture of my 3 gallon. also the pictures of the anemone are a couple hours apart and it seems to be unburrowing :/
Need id on new anenome!!
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what is a refugium? i just have a basic setup for now but would like to know these thing 
i do have frozen coral food that breaks apart in the water, would that suffice for now or would i need to get shrimp? also if kept, would it still be possible to put corals in the tank and/or other anemones?
i do have frozen coral food that breaks apart in the water, would that suffice for now or would i need to get shrimp? also if kept, would it still be possible to put corals in the tank and/or other anemones?It's a tank (or a section of a sump) which grows plants or algae (and various pods - I believe these are what the anemone eats most of but I'm no expert!).
You can certainly try the coral food, the anemone will either eat or not.
Tube anemones are semi-aggressive (assuming I'm right in thinking that's what it is) so yes, you can add corals (and as far as I know more anemones) but it may decide to move around and possibly sting the corals.
You can certainly try the coral food, the anemone will either eat or not.
Tube anemones are semi-aggressive (assuming I'm right in thinking that's what it is) so yes, you can add corals (and as far as I know more anemones) but it may decide to move around and possibly sting the corals.
Reefahholic
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Yeah, looks like a tube.
MD Ocean Girl
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If it's a tube anemone, dig a hole in the sand to bury it, with the top of it exposed (outer tentacles and shorter (mouth) tentacles. Your sandbed where it's located should be at least a good 2-3 inches in depth. It should stay put and not move (they don't walk like bubble tip anemones). Obviously, if unhappy, they can un-bury themselves, and may even shed their outer coating. The outer tentacles can sting whatever comes into contact with them. They're not really aggressive though, in my experience. You can feed it anything small......the tiny spectrum pellets, cyclopeeze, mysis shrimp, ova, roe or even coral food....you don't necessarily need a refugium or copepods. A small amount of food every day will help it to grow. If you'd like it out during the day, try to feed it while the lights are on, so that it will "learn" to come out while your tank lights are on.
I have my tube anemone in a 10 gallon mixed reef. I've had it for around 4 years, and it hasn't moved from the original spot where I buried it. When I fed every day, it grew quite a bit. As I don't have a larger home for it, I feed it every couple days. However, I don't target feed it anymore, although I'd recommend target feeding it when you first start out. Mine just catches food from the water column as I feed my fish. It usually gets spectrum pellets or cyclopeeze, although it will catch mysis. It tends to startle quickly if anything bigger than mysis shrimp brushes against it. I've got some tiny barnacle blennies in my tank, and I haven't lost any to the anemone.
Hope this helps a bit.
I have my tube anemone in a 10 gallon mixed reef. I've had it for around 4 years, and it hasn't moved from the original spot where I buried it. When I fed every day, it grew quite a bit. As I don't have a larger home for it, I feed it every couple days. However, I don't target feed it anymore, although I'd recommend target feeding it when you first start out. Mine just catches food from the water column as I feed my fish. It usually gets spectrum pellets or cyclopeeze, although it will catch mysis. It tends to startle quickly if anything bigger than mysis shrimp brushes against it. I've got some tiny barnacle blennies in my tank, and I haven't lost any to the anemone.
Hope this helps a bit.
well i have bad news... today i woke up and i noticed that my female clown was missing. Surely enough it jumped out of the tiny crack in the back that i left uncovered for ventilation :/ poor gal, everytime i turned off the lights she would freak out. the 55 gallon has a hood but i will definitely get netting or something to cover the back. guess my male will be flying solo.
