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Bubble Tip Tips
- Thread starter sslarison
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sslarison":1gldhhxg said:OK, Does it pose any threat to my fish. Inperticularly my manderin?
Baseman, he means no power heads with the intake exposed.Use prefilters.
I've read they will eat mandarins. Couldnt say from personal experience.
I don't think they need much light though. Mine actively avoid the light and I only have about 125 watts of PCs over my 55 gallon. I feed them scallops and they grow pretty rapidly.
Clean water and regular feedings are the most important rules in my experience.
The plastic screens aren't enough to keep wandering anemone tentacles out. I had an atlantic anemone get blenderized thru a plastic screen on a Maxi-jet 600. Only the arms fit thru, not the body, and it has since grown them back. So keep an eye on any anemones wandering too close.
No! The plastic screens are not enough, an anemone is subject to wandering for a whileuntil it finds it's place in the setup, and will always end up stuck in a powerhead screen or intake. I'm sure if you do a search on this board, or any reef related board for that matter, you will find posts from reefers who have kept an anemone long term, (or sadly, short term), that mention, if not warn, against the dreaded anemone vs. powerhead battle, in which the anemone will lose. You would be surprised how much of a deflated bubbletip can get inside and pureed by a plastic screen covered powerhead. If you have powerheads in your tank, cover them with something, foam, floss, whatever, an anemone can get sucked into a plastic screen! Also, I think that your mandarin will be eaten by an anemone, eventually, but I have read that a hosting clown will chase off a mandarin, and hopefully, thwart it's untimely demise! Good luck with your anemone, my bta is very hardy,and is my favorite animal! Joey
sslarison, you're going too fast, and you really need to research your purchases before you make them. The anemone will be difficult for someone so new to the hobby, the mandarin requires a very well (old) established reef tank to thrive. The anemone will take the mandarin.
Sea Maiden,Im not new to the hobby. Ive kept fish since I was 12. I moved to saltwater at about 18, reefs at 20. Im 23 now and have had a thriving nano (10 gal) that moved into a 20 gal and every thing that was in that 20 is now in my 50. I also had a 60 gal FO the whole time that was recently taken down. I just wanted to clear that up.
Joey, I do have a clown in there and he took to the anemone as soon as he found it. He wont let anyone near it. I went in to feed yesterday and he was going after me. So the Manderin will have to do some fancy dancing to get to the anemone to be eaten.
Joey, I do have a clown in there and he took to the anemone as soon as he found it. He wont let anyone near it. I went in to feed yesterday and he was going after me. So the Manderin will have to do some fancy dancing to get to the anemone to be eaten.
Also, the wrasse has scales, whereas the mandarin doesn't.
sslarison, I apologize. I had made an assumption about your skill level based on the questions you're asking. However, I feel that if you're putting a mandarin into a tank with a motile cnidarian, you're making a mistake. Just my opinion.
sslarison, I apologize. I had made an assumption about your skill level based on the questions you're asking. However, I feel that if you're putting a mandarin into a tank with a motile cnidarian, you're making a mistake. Just my opinion.
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