online anemones survival rate?

[Santoki]

To avoid turning this thread into a soapbox preaching session, I want to reiterate the information I'm trying to gather.
1. Survival rates.
Answers:
a. seems to be somewhere around 1 in 5.

2. recovery time from states as described and in pictures.
Answers:
a. Time to attach: 18 hours
b. Time to inflate: 24 hours (my experience)
c. Time to feed: ?

3. If it does not survive, breakdown time (when specimen is no longer showing life or is exhibiting tissue narcosis) from introduction.
a. 1 hour (ocellaris123)
b. ?

I'm looking for more examples like bradlym's.
Thanks,
-Robert

 

[Ron Smith]

Sorry to climb on the soapbox but jake levi is right. Wild caught anemones with little or no chance to survive should not be purchased. Have had a quadricolor for 7 years. Extremely hardy.

 

[bradleym]

To avoid turning this thread into a soapbox preaching session, I want to reiterate the information I'm trying to gather.
1. Survival rates.
Answers:
a. seems to be somewhere around 1 in 5.

2. recovery time from states as described and in pictures.
Answers:
a. Time to attach: 18 hours
b. Time to inflate: 24 hours (my experience)
c. Time to feed: ?

3. If it does not survive, breakdown time (when specimen is no longer showing life or is exhibiting tissue narcosis) from introduction.
a. 1 hour (ocellaris123)
b. ?

I'm looking for more examples like bradlym's.
Thanks,
-Robert

I've not had much experience but I would add this:

Time too feed: Minimum 2 days after fully inflated. If the anemone has an infection that is causing it to appear unhealthy, feeding can aggravate the condition. If your lighting is sufficient to own an anemone feeding will not do anything good during acclimation that the lighting isn't already doing.

 

[kduen]

Sorry to climb on the soapbox but jake levi is right. Wild caught anemones with little or no chance to survive should not be purchased. Have had a quadricolor for 7 years. Extremely hardy.

If the intended buyer actually did the research that most of them claim to have done there would be far less of these type of posts. I have purchased a total of 1 anemone from a online vendor (my avatar) and when it arrived it had the normal open mouth from shipping although not as bad as Bradleym's. If you can give the animal the enviornment that it requires and have the knowledge about the animals specific needs you stand a much better chance at success. By the way the picture in the avatar was taken about two hours after being introduced to my tank.

 

[Faye]

yes, that is what i thought. So far I've only been able to remove the female.
Has anyone received an inside out anemone and had it survive?

I've received three ritteri anemones inside out in the mail. All three of them were healthy in 24 hours. If you get healthy anemones from the start, shipping them should not be a big deal, I mean after all, how do you think they get from the sea to the LFS?

For your next purchase online for an anemone, try saltwaterfish.com Great company.

 

[GrindingNemo]

For your next purchase online for an anemone, try saltwaterfish.com Great company.

X2 I have ordered fish from them in the past and every shipment looked great.

Getting back on topic, I think that we can all agree that anemone survival rates are very low for most species. What I feel is partially to blame is a lack of good advice about proper care for specific species. If we were to develop a good care sheet for all of the common species, it would increase the number of success stories, and hopefully make it clear to some people that they shouldn't buy one because they dont have the means to care for one. Maybe something wiki style so that it is organized, and has the means for a user to correct inaccurate information (because it is all too common for misinformation to become 'fact') in this hobby.

 

[jake levi]

survival rates of anemones in aquaria

survival rates of anemones in aquaria

There is a HUGE amount of information available on survival rates of anemones.

Breeders Registry had a survey over 15 years ago, which detailed data on all species imported, ALL. There was much information on hardiness before the survey even then.

Since then, BTAs have been sucessfully propagated and are being. I dont know of any others that are CB, except for the very occasional one.

I would suggest that if someone would devote the time and money to propagating ritteri, haddoni etc that they would have a very good income from it.

I would hate to see import bans on species, but, with the number that are imported it has to impact both clowns and the anemones in the wild. To me it is irresponsible to be purchasing any of these. Better that the market limited the importation.

All of the information requested in the original post is readily available, on other forums and in literature, start with the BR, and the texts available.

If this be preaching then so be it. I would rather that it was seen as encouragement towards responsible reef keeping and husbandry. Who ever does reproduce these species will do well at it.