Planted my anemone in a clay pot!

[RightCoastReef]

I recently purchased a very large BTA for my pair of clowns and to my dismay, it wandered around my tank for the first month I had it, wreaking havoc on my SPS.

My water parameters were perfect and my lighting was more than sufficient. I've kept many different anemones and I've never had a problem like this. So I started thinking, "what's different this time?"...the only thing I could come up with was the size of the nem vs the size/amount of rock I had.

I believe that the nems foot was so large that it couldn't find a suitable spot to plant it's foot! I bought a clay pot for $.50, placed it in there, and it hasn't moved for a month.

Also, moving it around it much easier this way and it keeps it somewhat isolated from my other corals. Thought it was worth a share!

 

[DasCamel]

My Haddoni loved his coffee from QT. He eventually left because of the flow in the area.

 

[ThRoewer]

I had good success with planting a crispa in a flower pot back in the 80s.

 

[Reefflapper]

I have not tried this method yet. I have always just let my anemones go wherever they like. But then again my anemones and clowns are more important to me than corals. That being said I might just try it out for the high end nems.

 

[RightCoastReef]

My Haddoni loved his coffee from QT. He eventually left because of the flow in the area.

I recently upgraded my lighting and it was nice to be able to just shift the pot into the shade a little...It's kind of ugly not but I'm hoping in eventually get's covered with coraline and coral

I had good success with planting a crispa in a flower pot back in the 80s.

I don't think this BTA will get any bigger and when it splits I will just get rid of the clone or get a second pot

I have not tried this method yet. I have always just let my anemones go wherever they like. But then again my anemones and clowns are more important to me than corals. That being said I might just try it out for the high end nems.

My anemone and clowns are more important to me as well if I was an sps nut it would have been of of the tank already (or never gone in to start with!)