Too much flow for a LTA (M. Doreensis)

[Volturi21]

I saw this anemone in one of my LFS and it was under inadequate conditions to put it nicely (N.O. light, absolutely no flow, what looked like bad water quality and mixed with many Condy anemones). So I am temporarily rescuing him until I can find a better home. On the flip side, I didn't design the tank for a LTA. It has quite a bit of flow in it and the sand bed is shallow. I know LTAs are sand dwellers but I placed him in the rocks and turned the flow off for twenty minutes. I then turned the flow back on and it was attached to the rocks. You can't really see in the video but the LTA buried its foot pretty deep in a rock crevice as a good anchor so at least that's a good start. My main concern is the high flow. I have two Koralia 1050s, a Koralia 450 and a Rio 800 with a Octopus BH 1000 hanging off the back. The tank is a 29 gallon that's been setup for approximately 7 months. Lighting is around 300 watts of MH 20k hanging about 1.5 ft over the tank. Will be getting a 14 bulb soon as that is a more preferred spectrum for anemones in general. What do you guys think of the flow? I feel like there isn't good tentacle extension ( a few tentacles are deflated).

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On a side note, when the LTA extends its tentacles longer, you can see the effects of the flow more so then you could when they are more shrunken up like they are in the video. I can take another one tomorrow.

 

[elegance coral]

The anemone looks nice and healthy. I do agree that the flow is to strong though. It probably won't sit still with that much water movement. If this is a temporary guest in your tank, you can simply place some sand in a butter bowl and keep the anemone in it.

 

[Amphiprion]

Not too strong in this case, IME. Their habitat range is wide enough that you'd see some specimens in that kind of flow in the wild, so it shouldn't be an issue as long as the anemone isn't moving.

 

[davocean]

LTA's I've had seemed much more sensitive to both flow and light, and both in your tank are on the heavy side.
If you can tuck it under a ledge or cavy area it may be fine, though that may be difficult to do now it's attached.
It's likely to move.

 

[Volturi21]

LTA's I've had seemed much more sensitive to both flow and light, and both in your tank are on the heavy side.
If you can tuck it under a ledge or cavy area it may be fine, though that may be difficult to do now it's attached.
It's likely to move.

Well you were dead on, it did move. In fact, it completely detached and took flight. Thankfully I was there to witness it as it did get pretty close to one of the Koralia 1050s. I can only imagine this is stressing out the LTA. I killed the flow again and placed the LTA in a corner. Then I only turned the filter on and one of the 1050s that's shooting the opposite direction. I guess I'll just keep the other three powerheads off until I can keep this guy alive and give it away. I put new carbon in last night. Should I do a water change today? I'm thinking so. As for lighting, is it really an overkill? The MH is in a really good dome reflector and it's running off a dimmable ballast. I think the ballast goes up to 400 watts max and 250 min. I could dial it down a bit.