Two anemones?

[dbleyepatches]

At a fish store that I visited some time ago they had two anemones with a pair of clowns hosting in each in the same tank. This was a very large tank and the anemones were on opposite sides of the tank.

How big of a tank would it take to make this work? How would you keep them from moving around the tank and getting too close together? Anyone trying this?

 

[Mikez1207]

I've seen several nems close to each other and all fine

 

[dbleyepatches]

I guess I should have been more specific in my original question. The tank that I saw had a bubble tip on one side and a carpet on the other. I have seen several tanks with multiple BTA's in them, I guess I was wanting to get some insight on the size requirements to house two anemones of different species.

 

[ssgtgonzo]

+1...typically as long as they are the same species there isn't a problem. But when you get some really powerful ones (carpets, cerianthus (sp?)) you have to be careful what is touching them, even other nems.

And they can be alleopathic as well...hence why the rule of thumb of one type of nem per system.

 

[Coastie5685]

No matter who says what. Same species. Different species. It's all a risk you just have to take and from there other factors might influence a negative fact I.e tank size....

 

[dbleyepatches]

+1...typically as long as they are the same species there isn't a problem. But when you get some really powerful ones (carpets, cerianthus (sp?)) you have to be careful what is touching them, even other nems.

And they can be alleopathic as well...hence why the rule of thumb of one type of nem per system.

What do you mean by alleopathic?

 

[ssgtgonzo]

Chemical warfare...like softies can do.

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[dbleyepatches]

Chemical warfare...like softies can do.

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Thanks

 

[Ron Reefman]

I have a 75g hexagon anemone tank. It's tied into a 180g mixed reef and a 120g sump.

The anemone tank has:
1 condy purple tip
1 condy green
1 Long Tentacle nem
1 RBTA
3 stone or rock flower nems
3 corkscrew or curly-Q nems
5 maxi-mini nems
1 large green rhodactis (8-10" dia)
more aiptasia than I care to count
1 female cinnamon clown, 1 male tomato clown, 1 orange file fish & 1 algae blenny
1 pencil urchin & 1 green & white varigated urchin
2 brittle stars

I have this tank set up with lower flow than a reef and it is mostly circular in flow. I've had a stone flower and a RBTA move around in this tank. But all things considered it's been very quiet.

 

[jwoyshnar]

I have a LTA and a Very large Sebae in the same take right next to each other. They touch all of the time. Im not saying this will work all of the time, i think i just got lucky

 

[dbleyepatches]

Thanks for all of the posts on this. My plan was to add 4 tank bred juvenile clowns to a tank at the same time (two species that have been undetermined at this point). Then later I was wanting to add two anemones of different species and hope that I could have two mated pairs of clowns and have them host the two anemones.

I am hoping to do all this in a 90, 100, or 120 display. Not sure which display we will be going with yet.

 

[rssjsb]

As you can tell from the responses, the answer is "it depends." A number of people here have had success keeping LTAs and crispas in larger tanks. Some have reported keeping BTAs and magnificas together as long as there are no more than two BTAs to mags. Less success with BTAs or LTAs and haddonni's. LTAs are prone to wander and fail to thrive when BTAs and carpets are present (Ron Reefman's experience to the contrary). I've actually had BTAs fade away when another BTA was in the tank, where most of the time this works fine.

So, it depends. The problem is that no one seems quite sure what it depends on.

Maybe post when your plans have firmed up a little on tank size and which anemones you're interested in. That way, people can give you their experience with that combo and you can drill down to their practices and setups to try and figure out how to maximize the likelihood of success.

 

[phender]

If you have your mind made up to try this, my advice would be to get your clowns to accept their anemones first in separate tanks. Once your large tank is broken in and stable, add the clowns and anemones at the same time on opposite sides of the tank. That way the clowns will be less likely to wander the aquarium and cross into each other's territory.

I have had a pair of breeding perculas and a pair of breeding sandaracinos together in a 60 gal tank for over 5 years. The key is to chose species that once acclimated to an anemone don't leave it much and to chose anemones that are very attractive to one species of clown but not at all to the other.

 

[emdr888]

I have a pair of saddlebacks and a pair of maroon clowns with a lta (hasn't moved for two years) and four haddoni...and a mag (newly introduced).....i do run carbon and ozone. 8ft tank

 

[dbleyepatches]

Thanks everyone for the information. I am a little ways from starting the build but I would rather know what direction I am going before I start than make a huge mistake and waste a bunch of time and money.

It is encouraging to see that others have put multiple anemones and multiple mated pairs of clowns together and had it work out. If I can make it work, this is my goal.

 

[westohooligan]

Do you mind if I ask which fish store it was? You can PM me if not comfortable on public board.

 

[dbleyepatches]

Do you mind if I ask which fish store it was? You can PM me if not comfortable on public board.

The store was in the Kansas City Metro area. Might have been Paradise Aquatics but I am not sure. Was five or six years ago.

 

[westohooligan]

Right on, thought was somewhere local. There's only 1 shop here that I would say has relatively healthy nems, by the way.