Share your anemone experiences

[4angel]

I have a small 40 gal. and was thinking of adding an anemone.
What has been your experience in keeping anemones in you reef tank? What would be an appropriate anemone to keep?

[ November 20, 2004, 12:09 AM: Message edited by: 4angel ]

 

[ShaunW]

Anemones are great!! especially with a few clownfish in them. But they need to be fed; they are not solely photosynthetic.

I have had too much luck!! My RBTA just won't stop growing. I feed it a full shrimp (medium size that we humans eat!!) once a week. It takes up 1/4 of my 120 gallon tank.

If it doesn't split soon (I have been waiting for more than a year), I am going to take a chainsaw to it, .

 

[imported_June]

anenomes are awesome.....i've had mines for about 7 months now...i got mines at...sorry 2 say...petland...n it was labeled "Singapore anenome"...looks more like a sabae tho.....and it doesn't move around the tank...its been in the same place this whole time.

 

[StephenEvans]

u don't need to feed the anemone.. I use to feed them krill shrimp every week. BUt they just grow to fast when u do that.

 

[aaron]

I had two anemone's in my previous tank in Australia, one was really huge at about 18" across, I kept them with only standard output flourescent lights (10K and actinic but no PC's or anything) and they were completely happy. I havent ever seen similar species here in the US. They were called Radianthus anemones, a name that i think has since been reclassified as something else.
When i left Australia my cousin inherited my tank and they are still going strong three years later under the same setup.
In fact everything is going so well that the clown fish just spawned three times in a month and he is currently raising a crop of about four hundred ocellaris fry.
There's some pictures in my photo folder

[ November 21, 2004, 09:59 AM: Message edited by: aaron ]

 

[beyondnp]

I love em... I have a blue carpet, a RBTA and a small sebae that is starting to grow... btwn my clowns and an anemone crab, they all seem to be thriving and I think they are amazing.

Good luck,