question about anemone
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Tmoriarty
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read some of the information in the clown/anemone section, it has a lot of information that will help you.
General guidelines are have your tank setup for 6+ months and stable prior to adding any nems. BTA (bubble tip anemone) are considered to be the easiest of the hosting anemone species to keep. Whether or not your clowns will associate with the anemone is dependant on the clowns, If you have false/true percs, BTAs are not their natural host.
As for feeding anemone, normally any meaty sea fairing food is acceptable, not to large of portions, and around every other week or once a week for feeding.
General guidelines are have your tank setup for 6+ months and stable prior to adding any nems. BTA (bubble tip anemone) are considered to be the easiest of the hosting anemone species to keep. Whether or not your clowns will associate with the anemone is dependant on the clowns, If you have false/true percs, BTAs are not their natural host.
As for feeding anemone, normally any meaty sea fairing food is acceptable, not to large of portions, and around every other week or once a week for feeding.
Ron Reefman
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Don't count on your clowns using the anemone at all. I have a pair of perculas in my DT with 2 RBTA and they don't go near them. They sleep near the sand in a corner of the tank. I have a pair of cinnamon clowns in a nem tank with lots of different anemones and they use a condy (from the Keys) as a host. South Pacific fish met the Caribbean anemone. :beer:
jerseygurl
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Anemones have a VERY low success rate, although the BTA is your best bet. I would suggest that you skip it and go with something that has a better chance of surviving.
f3honda4me
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The reason the success rate is low is because of people getting them without understanding what their requirements are. If you do the research, have a stable tank, and meet all the requirements, the success rate is very high.
BigCountry74
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R_Hudson
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Yeah Ill disagree with this as well. If the owner knows all the requirements, and has the stable parameters to do it the anemone not only will live, but will thrive.
Again It is always a great idea to research any possible new options for our tank, this way we can be well prepared when the time comes to make the purchase. Yes we are all guilty of making impulse buys, But then how quickly do we scramble around just t o make accomidations?
clydog
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View attachment 187869 this will show you the size of her better....shes even bigger now
nice looking anemone
clydog
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thank you....before i found this forum i just bought stuff on impulse,including this anemone.......she was the size of a cheeseburger when i got her and now shes growing out of the tank......i was shocked to hear that people say these are hard to keep because she is the easiest thing in my tank....not to mention i have pc lighting and most say that isnt enough......i think its all about how much you love your animals:love1:,they sense it
ReeferBill
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Awesome Anemone ,I had a green LTA and gave it away when it got too big...I wish I still had it! Now my clowns play in my hammer and Frogspawn corals..
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clydog
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yeah,its hard when they get big cause they sting everything.....she has moved to the front of the tank now, so she is stinging the 3 corals i have ......pretty soon she'll be the only thing in the tank lol.....its ok cause i love her like a dog.....shes so big that she filter feeds all the extra food in the tank....i also have a green lta in my 75 but its stayed relatively small
f3honda4me
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reefnewbie83177
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Here is my RBTA with mated clowns. I also was one to by things spontaneously, and bought the RBTA 2.5 months after cycle. She moved around for a couple of days before settling in. I got the pair of clowns about a month later and they moved right in. I must say they seem to be very easy to take care of, but I also have high lighting, excellent flow and great parameters. This pic is a couple of months old, but the RBTA is about the twice the size of a softball when fully out during the day.
f3honda4me
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Glad the gamble worked out!
reefnewbie83177
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Yeah me too, but I don't want to advocate it. I will never buy anything for my fish tank with our doing research, regardless of what my LFS tells me. That was the first thing that I had to learn, LFS does not necessarily know everything.
