Best Anemone

[spearperson]

I have a happy pair of gold bar maroon clowns that need a proper home. My tank is a standard 90 gallon with 6 T5HOs. Any reccomendations for what kind of anemone would fit the bill best? would prefer something that is not going to bother corals or move around a ton.

Thanks

 

[darkdrako]

I have a softball sized Bubble Tip anemone for my maroon pair under 6 T5HO lighting. They love it! The anemone moved around for a week until it hid in the rocks. All I did was tip the rock it was under so that the tentacles could get light but the base could not and it has been there for a while now.

 

[LongIslandAndy]

+1

 

[spearperson]

Is it up pretty high in the rockwork, or down by the bottom?

 

[darkdrako]

It is about 12" from the top of the tank & @ 14" from the lighting.

 

[poormansdream]

RBTA are great for Clowns... If you take a nice size piece of LR and dig out a quarter size hole (depending on size of anemone) and place the anemone in it foot first you should be fine... It should settle and lock it self in the hole within minutes , I did that and my anemone hasn't moved in 6 months but it did split twice and the clones also stayed on the same rock... I feed them twice a week and their happy as can be, i'm also running a 6 bulb T5 fixture and they are right under it.

Hope That Helps, Poormansdream

 

[tosiek]

bubble tip is going to be what your looking for. And get ready for the anemone to move to where it wants nomatter where you place it. Its going to go where its the most happy in the tank and will probably move to somewhere you don't want it to in the end.

Poormansdream - you picked a perfect spot for him and got really lucky

 

[tosiek]

And any anemone you get will kill the majority of the corals we keep if touched. You can wake up to alot of pissed off or dead coral in the morning if he descides on going on a stroll overnight.

 

[prattreef]

I agree with Tosiek on all points.

 

[dubs]

prattreef thats not alway true i have seabea a bta and i just added a carpet and i have not have ne problems so far ....the bta took a week to settle i was more worried about it getting in the koralia 3 than killing ne of the coral in the tank but every one dont have the same luck

 

[henrye718]

I have a brownish\yellow carpet anemone pretty sure its a Stichodactyla the kind thats sometimes artificially dyed, dont buy a dyed one tho. It is the less "sticky" varity of the carpets from what I remember and is less likly to catch and kill fish.

I keep him in a 55 gallon, 2 T5s, 108 watts total, he has been there for 14 months now doing fine. I forced my my two perc clowns to host him after 12 months I got tired of them ignoring it :inlove:.

Anyway these anemones likes sand, so I put him on the bottom and piled a few small rocks around him and he stayed there and has never moved.

I am not sure if maroons like these tho.

You can get them to go where you want sometimes by turning out the lights for an extended peroid of time and shinning a light from the side, they will move to it and hopefully lock themselves there.

Drop whatever you get where there is low flow and have the lights on and maybe it will stay.

 

[tosiek]

prattreef thats not alway true i have seabea a bta and i just added a carpet and i have not have ne problems so far ....the bta took a week to settle i was more worried about it getting in the koralia 3 than killing ne of the coral in the tank but every one dont have the same luck

Exactly =0) I did make my post seem like they always move and its 100% guaranteed. Sorry about that. Its really just luck and meeting its happy conditions. The majority of the time the anemone will find a spot and not move for a real long time. But there is always the possibility and if your going to get one and keep it you should be aware of that. Same goes for anyone keeping angels, filefish, alot of crab species ect. that are labeled "reef safe" with caution, know all the possibilities of what can happen when adding these animals into your tank. They might not bother anything but there is always that chance that that "reef safe" flame angel destroys your acan and blasto colonies, or those emerald crabs that will go after your coral and never touch the bubble algae. =)

You have the people that throw the anemones into their tanks and the anemone won't ever move from where its dropped off. The people that have theirs move for a day or two then settle for a few months. And then those that it never finds a spot and is moving around once a week. Ontop of it all, any changes to flow and lighting or even just adding new clowns to the tank can make it move, so there is always the possibility.

Here is a descent chart showing whats pairable with each clown.

http://www.fishlore.com/clownfishanemonechart.htm

Reef central bundle of links to clownfish info

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1381958