What to know about a tube anemone?

[Vicarious Cynic]

I brought home a tube anemone today. LFS had it - beautiful green and orange. Put it into the sand bed a bit away from everything else. My thinking is that the moderate light I have, plus a little squirt of the frozen food I use is all it will need. What else do I need to know?

 

[iamwhatiam52]

Beautiful anemone!

What else do you need to know?
They will kill any coral they touch.
Clownfish and commensal anemone shrimp and crabs will not live with them.
They can kill fish, but there is some debate as to how dangerous they are in a community tank.



Also, from my experience after having three for over 3 years:
Never lost any livestock to them.
Once established, they stay put.
Can live in full light or unlit sump.
Easy to care for.
Slow growers.
Sometimes retreat into their tube for a day or more.

 

[Vicarious Cynic]

Thanks. I think what you're saying is that itiswhatitis! Glad to learn it's a slow grower, it's darn pretty and I'd hate it to outgrow too soon.

 

[bradleym]

FWIW I have 2 in a community tank and so far so good. But you should know they aren't actually photosynthetic. They get all their nutrition from the food. So don't skip too many feedings!

 

[rekn]

its not even an anenome-also,feeding is required!

 

[Vicarious Cynic]

Giving him Rod's once a day, gonna bump it to twice. My wife's favorite critter, gotta feed that.

 

[Crustman]

They are anemones but are in the Order Ceriantheria, tube dwelling anemones. Nice one. Pick a genus. I don't know the genus. Could be Cerianthus. Info below from ITIS
Integrated Taxonomic Information System-use it at work.

Kingdom Animalia -- Animal, animals, animaux
Phylum Cnidaria Hatschek, 1888 -- água viva, anêmona, caravela, cnidaires, cnidarians, cnidario, coelenterates, coelentérés, coral, hidra
Class Anthozoa Ehrenberg, 1834 -- água viva, anêmona, anémones de mer, antozoário, caravela, corais, corals, coraux, flower animals, gorgônia, sea anemones
Subclass Ceriantipatharia Van Beneden, 1898
Order Ceriantharia Perrier, 1893 -- tube-dwelling anemones, tube-dwelling anemones
Family Cerianthidae Milne-Edwards and Haime, 1852
Direct Children:
Genus Arachnactis M. Sars, 1846
Genus Ceriantheomorphe Carlgren, 1931
Genus Ceriantheopsis Carlgren, 1912
Genus Cerianthus Delle Chiaje, 1830
Genus Isodactylactis Carlgren, 1924
Genus Pachycerianthus Roule, 1904
Genus Synarachnactis

 

[rekn]

coulda swore there was a change and it got classified as something along the lines of sea cucumbers and not anemones