sandbed for haddoni

[thorSvenson]

I'm thinking about getting a haddoni and was wondering how deep my sand bed needs to be. I've read it needs to be 6-10 inches but in some of the pics of seen in this forum there barely in a 1 inch. Also I've read some people fill a PVC pipe with sand and place the anemone in it. This sounds like a better option but what's to keep it from moving? From what I've read if it doesn't like where I placed it, it's going to move around.

 

[OrionN]

PVC pipe should be last resort. Looks ugly in a reef tank. You can use a container and hide it behind some LR. You can build a sand bed with some rock.......
Haddoni should be happy with a sand bed of about 3 inches. They can live in deeper sand bed, but shallower and then tend to keep wander to find deeper sand.

 

[Winwood]

I think if it's a healthy specimen, they can be kept with a bed in the 2 or 3 inch range relatively easily. Especially if they are in a low flow area of the tank.

 

[Winwood]

Here's my last one before I sold it. It was very content living attached to the bottom pane of the tank in no more than 3 inches of sand.

 

[thorSvenson]

I planned on building up rock around it. I was just unsure of how to keep it where you want it. I've kept bubble tips for years and they usually stay put when there happy, but they moved around a lot before they found there spot.

 

[Winwood]

Low flow and adequate sand and they'll stay put.

 

[OrionN]

I agree with winwood. Good light low flow and deep enough sand and they will stay put. Need good enough water quality also

 

[Twistofer]

3-4" sandbed, but also get some LR. Mine like the zone between LR and sand. Both have buried their pedal disk deep, but are at the edge of my LR.

 

[downbeach]

I started with a piece of a 5 gal. bucket, by cutting 8 inches off the bottom, and then cutting the very bottom off(leaving about 7"). I positioned it under one of my lights, pressing it into my substrate until it hit the bottom, and stacked small rocks around the visible part(about 2") and filled it with substrate . Once I knew he wasn't going to move, I simply lifted the piece of bucket out of the tank.

 

[msmith619]

4 inches os sand bed is the usual recommendation BUT, you don't need to put sand in your tank if you like to go bare-bottom. Buy a plastic Tupperware dish at least 4 inches deep, add sand and the Haddoni and place on the bottom of the tank. Build your rock work around and Viola!, you have an anemone in it's own deep sand bed!
They seem to like being close to the rock too.