Newbie Anemones

[yzfr6]

I wanted to purchase an Anemone for my clown fish. What is a good Anemone to start off with. Needs to be hardy and work with a false percula. Any ideas would be great. Thanks.

 

[NeptunesGhost]

What kind of lighting do you have?
Is it going to be in your 75G?
How old is the tank?
Anything else about it you can think of (parameters, etc)

 

[yzfr6]

250 watt metal halides, and vho actnic. The tank is almost 2 months old just started to get Coraline algae. The parameters are good I use RO/DI water already have SPS and LPS corals in the tank everything is doing well. Just getting over a Diatom issue but is pretty much gone...

 

[NeptunesGhost]

Your tank is far too young for an anemone. I would wait 6 to 8 months, with stable parameters, and no crashes, before introducing something as fragile as an anemone.

Most hosting anemones need pristine water parameters to thrive and the stability that only comes with age.

 

[garygb]

Yeah, a bit too new of a tank yet. I would follow the other advice and wait 6 mos or so. At least allow the nitrates to be very low, preferably undetectable for a couple of months. Although an established anemone can tolerate some nitrates, introducing a new one into a tank with nitrates is not ideal. As far as a species that will host an ocellaris, BTAs often do in aquariums (not a natural host). None of the natural hosts for ocellaris are beginner anemones and should be avoided. BTAs are really the only host species that could be called a beginner anemone.

 

[reeflover7826]

I'm just about ready to buy an anemone and was thinking the same question, my tank has been running for about 9 months now, tons of coraline algea, peramiters are stable, have shrooms and caps thriving well, my lighting consist of 2 175w 10k mh's and 2 actinic lights day and night effects, how about a Sebea anemone, and how hard would it be to keep? would I have to do anything to get my clowns to take to it?