What fish do you keep with large anemones?

[elegance coral]

I'm just looking for some ideas. My tank isn't very fish friendly. What fish would you risk placing in this tank? If any.
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[this is me]

Hehehe. Very nice specimens of anemone you got there.

I think my tank is even more "fish unfriendly". With 3 giant carpet anemones that can devour anything they can get a hold of. But honestly, so far, I haven't lost any fish(knock on wood). Haven't seen the giganteas ate anything but the haddoni had claimed about 3 trochus snails, 1 hermit, and 1 emerald.

The fish I keep in the tank are 3 lyretail anthias, a yellow tang, sailfin tang, a leopard wrasse, and of course, the two clowns. For the most part, I think you would be pretty safe with the lyre tail anthias. They are pretty smart to swim in the open and don't graze on the rocks. The tangs are questionable because they graze on the rock and sometime can be a little risky when they get too near to the anemone.
In the past, I have had chromis. But they all slowly get eating by my previous gigantea and previous haddoni.

 

[elegance coral]

Thanks for the input. How long have you had the leopard wrasse?

I'm thinking about doing something like Mobart did. Just raise a clutch of prc's and add them to the tank.

 

[Reefvette]

Elegance

Elegance

Hey

In all honest at some point with a big daddy gigantea you gonna hit a killing spree or a slow kill off.

Ime with gigantea it almost a matter of time and between a gigantea and a mertens i dont know of a stronger anemone. I saw my 16 inch gigantea take out a 5 inch orange shoulder.

If you keep sand bed anemones, i avoid sand dwelling fish. If you keep reef top anemones like gigantea mags and mertens you run a risk that at some point open water fish may make a wrong move.

 

[psusocr]

my mag is pretty large and my tangs swim around/by/run into it all the time and they are always fine, in matter of fact all my fish do except my clowns!! bummer....im glad it doesnt have aa real potent sting

 

[this is me]

Thanks for the input. How long have you had the leopard wrasse?

I'm thinking about doing something like Mobart did. Just raise a clutch of prc's and add them to the tank.

I had the leopard wrasse sine September of 10. It eats NLS pellets and frozen mysis and just about any other mixed frozen food. I can see it's slowly changing into a male.

Have you made the tank move yet? I remember you were moving into a larger tank right?

 

[Reefvette]

Mags are def the least worrisome out of the three open water anemones.

Ill post up a pic of my gigantea munchin on the orange shoulder and what he looked like when he got spit out. I

 

[shutiny]

Ec

Ec

Well done! Love the elegance atoll. I am with Reefvette, my newer tanks only have a few anemone fish in them. Would you post some full tank view?

 

[Reefvette]

Shutiny

Shutiny

Take it from Shutiny, shes got alot of expeirence with anemones

This is the aftermath of my orange shoulders demise

 

[elegance coral]

Hey

In all honest at some point with a big daddy gigantea you gonna hit a killing spree or a slow kill off.

Ime with gigantea it almost a matter of time and between a gigantea and a mertens i dont know of a stronger anemone. I saw my 16 inch gigantea take out a 5 inch orange shoulder.

If you keep sand bed anemones, i avoid sand dwelling fish. If you keep reef top anemones like gigantea mags and mertens you run a risk that at some point open water fish may make a wrong move.

Hey.... Hope all is well.

That's my problem. I have reef top anemones (gigantea and magnifica) and a sand dwelling anemone (haddoni). Even my elegance can, and have, killed fish.

 

[elegance coral]

my mag is pretty large and my tangs swim around/by/run into it all the time and they are always fine, in matter of fact all my fish do except my clowns!! bummer....im glad it doesnt have aa real potent sting

The mags I've had, when healthy, have a very strong sting. This is what my mag did to my tang.

 

[elegance coral]

I had the leopard wrasse sine September of 10. It eats NLS pellets and frozen mysis and just about any other mixed frozen food. I can see it's slowly changing into a male.

Have you made the tank move yet? I remember you were moving into a larger tank right?

I've been wanting a leopard wrasse, but I've been afraid it would become anemone food.

Ya. I upgraded from a standard 120 to a 200 starfire DD. The video is of the 200

 

[elegance coral]

Well done! Love the elegance atoll. I am with Reefvette, my newer tanks only have a few anemone fish in them. Would you post some full tank view?

Thank you. I'll get to work on a FTS ASAP.

 

[aday2remmbr]

i have found in all my tanks with nems the fish that are always the first to go are the slow fish, or the bottom dwelling fish like mandarins or scooter blennies. i have not lost a single tang or angel to any of my nems in any of my tanks. i think its a better bet to get fish that swim a ton!

 

[elegance coral]

Take it from Shutiny, shes got alot of expeirence with anemones

Ya. I'm a huge fan of hers, and her anemones.

This is the aftermath of my orange shoulders demise

That's horrible. How long were the tang and gigantea together before the incident?

 

[Reefvette]

2 years i got the orqnge shoulder when it was 2 inches. Like shu tin i dont risk it.

Personally i thknk gignatea are the strongest because if the spaghetti like tentacles when healthy

 

[elegance coral]

2 years i got the orqnge shoulder when it was 2 inches. Like shu tin i dont risk it.

Personally i thknk gignatea are the strongest because if the spaghetti like tentacles when healthy

Do you get tired of people looking at your tank and asking, "Where's all the fish?" That's all I hear from people.

 

[Reefvette]

Funy

Funy

Me and my fiance are used to it.

When i finish my magnifica garden i think there will be too many mags for them to say anything.


Someone had four mags that be brought in all had red bases with green tentacles with yellow tips. I got all four and they will be reuniting next weekend.

I think one i have is from a wild split, it has a white line on its base going from top to bottum. The bottum is starting to fill in though