Some pics of my anem tank

[airinhere]

Kids dont try this at home.
I made this
Seahorses in the top tank and anemones in the bottom tank.

fish move fast, Macroalgae grows quick too!

My Barbouri seahorses

A huge Rose bubble I got on this forum

My green bubble anem with pink tips

Some of my LTA

My very first LTA and two smaller ones

Hardest part of having this is keeping my hands out of the anem tank and not overfeeding the horde of damsels and clowns I have in there. They love to eat.

I hope the fish arent too hard to catch if I have to move them to a larger tank.....

Anem tank:
1 RBTA
1 GBTA
7 LTA
10 Fiji Damsels
9 Ocelaris clowns
2 tomatoe clowns
2 Black Saddleback clowns
1 Clarki clowns
1 mandarin goby
1 lawnmower blenny
2 porcelain crabs
1 cleaner shrimp
2 pepermint shrimp
5 black brittlestars
7 brown brittlestars
mucho snails

seahorse tank
2 Barbouri seahorses
1 giant mandarin goby
4 Tiger cowries
7 Black brittlestars
5 brown brittlestars
1 pepermint shrimp

What fun! Had a terrible outbreak of vibrio in the seahorse tank and lost all but my two barbouri just recently, the anem tank has been death free for almost two months. Basically since it was stocked and I learned that saddleback carpets die in the presence of bubble anemones. Keep waiting for the fishies to start fighting, but aside from some minor posturing everything has survived from the day I first put them all in (like everything pretty mush at once). Odd thing was that I was worried the clowns and damsels would shred each other and never worried about the seahorses, ended up the seahorses suffered terrible losses and the fish are just fine. Anyone else have a crazy damselfish or clown heavy tank out there?

 

[bluenassarius]

Great looking anemone tank. I've been tempted to try something like that. Do your anemones split often? That's alot of clowns in one tank =) do they fight often?

 

[airinhere]

havent yet had either bubble split, dont know if thats good or bad. Still kinda early to worry about splitting, but I do hope they both make lots of clones. The clowns do chase each other some, the Tomatoes are the rulers of the tank. No deaths from fighting or even any signs of damage on any of the clowns or damsels. I know they are going to have to be put into a bigger tank eventually, but they seem content for now. and fun to feed. Like pirannahs making the water boil when I put food in. And sometimes the Ocelaris clowns nip at me when I feed the anems or scrape the glass clean.

 

[redvipe2010]

Your bubble Tips may be too sick to split. Have some respect for the creatures you keep.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1058606

 

[pbetito]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9367381#post9367381 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by redvipe2010
Your bubble Tips may be too sick to split. Have some respect for the creatures you keep.

Cool tank and ideas Aaron. I have seen others put lots of different anemones and clowns together. I know you respect the creatures so just ignore the peanut gallery.Some people are just NEGATIVE and like to spread their unhappiness on FAR AWAY forums where they can be jerks and then go off on their merry way. Keep up the good work!!

 

[redvipe2010]

Those anemones are sick. Nothing healthy about them.

 

[MrMikeB]

I might be speaking out of turn here, or plain ignorant - or both? I do not think its necessarily a sign of good health when anemones split. In fact, I was told, and personally witnessed, that splitting can be brought upon by stress and/or other like situations. Think of it like a survival instinct, stressful situation can kill it so it splits to increase its chances of survival. I say they look rather well.

As far as all of these fish in one tank, if your fish are doing well and are not sick and have all their fins intact, then who is to say its a 'bad' thing? I am sure you are doing the responsible thing and keeping a vigilant watch on the crowd and will respond if you had any reason to think your tankmates were about to start a war.

 

[Elite]

Hehehe... he is a professional man.. he knows what he's doing ..

Those BTA are very healthy..

Here is an example of a sick RBTA

 

[GSMguy]

you must have to clean the glass allot with all the bioload in that tank

you are going to have some dead clownfish very soon congrats on that
very professional

 

[GSMguy]

here is another sick BTA nothing like your very healthy ones

 

[redvipe2010]

All this time and I thought this one was healthy!

 

[kttsf]

I don't think redvipe2010 is being negative, I think he is right and also being a responsible hobbist.

Yeah, you might see people put lots of different anemones and clowns together but did you ever check back after 6-8months later? I can go to any LFS and see a bunch of fish living together but only for a short term. Are you usually there to see when they're taking the dead fish out before they open for bussiness? Just because they look ok now doesn't mean they are not slowly wasting away. With anemones especially, is that they seem to have a very slow metabolism. They are very slow to let us know that they are unhappy and by the time we notice, they may already be too far gone to help them since they are slow to react to beneficial changes too.

Be good to your livestocks. They want to live and be heathy too!

 

[MrMikeB]

Seriously, if you have nothing constructive to say (you know who you are), then why bother? So you do not agree with his techniques, surely you have something more to contribute than asinine rhetoric.

 

[DarkDevil]

Although I think the tank is bit crowded, that's his tank and his money, he can do whatever he please himself. even if it everything in there die, that's an experience. at least you can tell someone you tried it, so don't let anyone tell you what you can do or cannot do. if we never try or experience anything new, we would not be living in a world like today - we would still be riding horses, farming lands and died at the age of 50 since none of you are going to help the development of new medicine.

also if anyone want to bring up the topic of "respect the animals" then you are at the wrong website. once you take the animals out of their natural habitat, that's not respecting them already. do you think they like to live in a glass cage? since I know a lot of you can speak to fish, why didn't you ask them that question? and also please tell me you don't eat meat either, coz do you know how they slaughter the animals? respect? please......

responsible? so you think you take the fish out of the ocean and put them in the glass cage is responsible? you guys are having double standard here, you guys think the way you guys are treating the animals are the "right" way, if anyone else do something different, then it's "wrong". so what are you guys now, all have Doctorate degree in marine science? before you have that, just **** and GTFO

 

[GSMguy]

i do think there is a way to be a responsible reefkeeper. This is thumbing your nose at responsibility

dark devil
People have tried this many times though i suppose mankind is destined to repeat the mistakes of our past

Airinhere has posted these pictures all over this website and is saying that it works but when people ask questions he doesnt respond
arggghhghghghghgh

 

[cschweitzer]

Those are actually the most contructive comments, although maybe worded a little less harsh would have a more beneficial effect, these comments need to be said.

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9368293#post9368293 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DarkDevil
Although I think the tank is bit crowded,

Just a bit? seriously?

 

[redvipe2010]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9368169#post9368169 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MrMikeB
if you have nothing constructive to say (you know who you are), then why bother?

I tried in great detail. Now its time for damage control!

 

[cschweitzer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9368293#post9368293 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DarkDevil
Although I think the tank is bit crowded, that's his tank and his money, he can do whatever he please himself. even if it everything in there die, that's an experience. at least you can tell someone you tried it, so don't let anyone tell you what you can do or cannot do. if we never try or experience anything new, we would not be living in a world like today - we would still be riding horses, farming lands and died at the age of 50 since none of you are going to help the development of new medicine.

also if anyone want to bring up the topic of "respect the animals" then you are at the wrong website. once you take the animals out of their natural habitat, that's not respecting them already. do you think they like to live in a glass cage? since I know a lot of you can speak to fish, why didn't you ask them that question? and also please tell me you don't eat meat either, coz do you know how they slaughter the animals? respect? please......

responsible? so you think you take the fish out of the ocean and put them in the glass cage is responsible? you guys are having double standard here, you guys think the way you guys are treating the animals are the "right" way, if anyone else do something different, then it's "wrong". so what are you guys now, all have Doctorate degree in marine science? before you have that, just **** and GTFO

1 The tank is not a little crowded, it is overflowing with fish...fish cannot be crammed in like many corals can. Same with anems

2 Everything dying is not an experience, it is a tragedy.

3 This is not new, it has been done with little or no success by many aquariasts

4 Respect and retention do not necessarily have to be polar opposites. Yes, we are taking them out of their natural environment. But some of us are truely attempting to care for our animals. Clownfish will live longer, healthier lives in fish tanks. They can produce thousands of times more viable offspring in a tank than in the wild. Taking an animal out of its natural habitat may be a level of disrespect, but there are different levels. Slowly watching as your animals suffer and not doing anything to change this is a higher level of disrespect in my mind.

5 I talked to my fish last night and they actually thanked me for taking them out of the harsh ocean...that was good advice to ask the fish...very helpful. Now I know exactly what they're thinking.

6 I eat meat, but I don't keep cows as pets. When the clowns start dying, is he utilizing this as a source of energy to keep himself alive or is he throwing the carcasses away. Little different if you ask me.

7 Not a double standard, a triple or quadruple standard. I don't have a tank like this persons, so automatically he will be on a different standard than me. If it weren't for standards, we would all have the same stuff.

8 We are not neceassarily doing things the right way, and no, not everyone who does something different is doing it the wrong way. I'm not saying I am a perfect reefcaretaker, I am not saying anyone who is not me is worse or does things wrong. But there are some people who do things that have been tested, proven, tried and true not to work and it is our responsibility as consiencious reefers to acknowledge the issue and try to help rectify it before it happens again.

I hope you do not experiment in your own tank without gaining insight from people who have done it in the past. I am not a marine biologist, but I know hundreds of them. many of whom are all around forums always answering questions to the best of their ability. Go ask Bob Fenner or Eric Borneman or Anthony Calfo what their take is on this situation and see if they have a different answer. Ignorance is one thing and is forgivable, but standing behind ignorance for the pure fact that you think ignorance is good is just a horrible practice.

 

[cschweitzer]

Hope this helps anybody trying to get their point across that maybe this is not the way things should be done.