anemones for small tank

[Ghost1]

Hallooo
I've been trying to find out a couple ideas for an anemone for a small tank. Right now I have a couple of little rock flower anemones (one only the size of my pinky nail). I am not planning on getting any clown fish so I don't need a host anemone, but I am looking at getting an anemone shrimp, and have some anemone crabs that sit in the rock flower anemone.
My tank is
30 hex
50 lbs of live rock pile about 3/4 to the top
15 watt actinic and powerglo bulb to start off
175 watt 10000k halide for the rest of the day
at the moments some mushrooms and several types of polyps
bangaii cardinal, black cap gramma
coral banded shrimp
emerald green crab

Any suggestions are welcome
Thanks
Ghost

 

[Anonymous]

I have anemones in two of my tanks. I will warn you though. If you keep them fat and happy, they will split, meaning they will take up more room which can be detrimental to any other corals you have. In my 75, my original Bubble tip anemone is now 4 bubble tip anemones. I have had to move almost all my other corals to the other side of the tank as they were getting stung. In a small tank, you won't have many places you can place your other corals.

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[Rich-n-poor]

if you click the link in my signature you can see the two anenomes in my 37 gallon.

One, hosting an anenome crab is a condylactus, they are cheap (about $8) and hardy this one is about 2 years old.

The other probably is the same as one you have I think the technical name for it is a delicate anenome. Although it is far from delicate.

The condi I feed the other I dont

HTH

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apollomist

 

[Anemone]

I agree with Rich-n-Poor's choice - go for a condy (also called a Haitian Pink-tipped anemone, or an atlantic anemone). The condylactis is generally hardier than host anemones, less demanding of high lighting (although they do just fine in high-light systems), and seem to be very happy is fed meaty foods regularly.

Also, as far as I'm aware, they don't split, so a population explosion won't threaten your other cnidarian inhabitants.

Kevin

 

[Anonymous]

Get some hairy shrooms. Some even resemble anemones.

 

[Ghost1]

halloooo again
Thanks again, I will do some more looking into it, I might just add a few more mushrooms or small corals.

Ghost

 

[Anonymous]

Aren't shrooms really anemonies anyway?

 

[Len]

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[Len]

Corallimorpharians can be very loosely regarded as anemones. Their basal taxonomy is the sub-class Zoantharia, which also includes all stony corals.