Pic of how long tentacle anemones like to attach.

[kjboggs]

Since I've had this lta for over 2.5 years, and this is a common question. They are sand dwelling, but in my experience they are always happiest when they have a spot in between the sand and a rock. Since my clowns always clear the sand over time from around the nem, it always moves if not anchored like this. You can see his foot and how far they extend, and has been in this spot for over a year. He was in the front and had his foot through this same hole until it was cramped for space. And my clowns bite it to make it retract some while they have eggs, and only let it open fully inbetween egg clutches!

 

[Dkuhlmann]

That is an insane stretch.

Your bubble coral is Amazing :thumbsup:

 

[ThRoewer]

My tan gigantea does the same thing.

 

[kjboggs]

The bubble has grown a little since that pic! Pretty much touches my 55 front to back!

 

[Dkuhlmann]

WOW that bubble is insane. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to see it without the blue lights if you can. I do love big mature corals and colonies. I'll be getting a 20 something head Duncan this week. The one in my avatar had 23 heads and I lost it to brown jelly. I've got a small two head frag left from it.

I just lost my wall hammer too this week. It's been going downhill for a while now and have no reason why. I know that wall Euphyllias don't usually live very long once fragged.

 

[kjboggs]

Better pic of the bubble. It was a frag smaller than my fist i rescued from petco for $39.00

The tiny brittle stars have made a nest behind it!

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I need to do some coral rescues from Petco. Thanks for sharing, it's a beautiful coral and yep the little brittle stars sure do call it home.

 

[squeakymcmurdo]

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I've been searching and most people base their advice on their experience with bubble tips.

My LTA didn't get the memo. I have several great spots similar to yours where it can go deep into a cave on my sand bed but it keeps moving up my rock work. Should I try to encourage it to attach on the bottom or just let it stay in the spot it picked? (About midlevel in my 125 gallon)

I bought it with the Clarkii clowns it was hosting on Sunday, but the fish are in a quarantine tank. This tank has been up since July, but the rocks and 1/3 of the sand are from my old tanks that have been running for over a year. I have lots of spaghetti worms, sponges, and other microorganisms so I consider it established.

 

[pfan151]

Do you have a pic of the anemone? How deep is your sandbed?

 

[squeakymcmurdo]

My sand is about 4" deep in the spots I had set up for it to choose from. It pulled out a frag plug of zoas and has its foot in the crevice where they were wedged. It was in the sand at the store with the female clarkii laying in it. It's about the size of my hand when it extends it tentacles all the way, which it seems to do more often in the evening. It's foot is white/beige

 

[Apercula]

My LTA started out on the rockwork, by its choice, then stretched through a hole in the rocks to the glass, then finally moved to rock sand interface.

A picture of the column stretching through the rock.


During lights on, from the front, when it was reaching through the rock to the glass.


A couple months later, at the base of the same rock, I think all that it did was retract under the rock then work its oral disc back out to the front.

 

[pfan151]

My sand is about 4" deep in the spots I had set up for it to choose from. It pulled out a frag plug of zoas and has its foot in the crevice where they were wedged. It was in the sand at the store with the female clarkii laying in it. It's about the size of my hand when it extends it tentacles all the way, which it seems to do more often in the evening. It's foot is white/beige

Looks like you don't have a LTA. Looks like a bubble tip.

 

[squeakymcmurdo]

It moved to the sand sometime in the past couple hours. Front and center! It looks white in daylight. Here's its mouth.