killer anemone

[jenpo76]

hi i am new to saltwater, reef tanks, Ive had fresh water fish all my life. so im not so new to the hobby. but this is my 1st thread. yay!! well here is my question ! help! i have a 70 gal bow front, with 6in dsb. 40 lb of live rock, t5 lights fluval 350, seachem skimmer, no sump, 1 yellow tang, 1 line wrass, 1 serpent star, 1 sandsifter star, 1 watchman gobie, 3 green chromis, 2 false percula, 1 long tenticle anemone, some fans, some pulsating xenia, 1 coral shrimp. my question is. exactly how dangerous is my LTA? can it kill star fish and coral banded shrimp. thanks to this forum!! my tank is doing wonderfull!! exept for the dead yellow eye tang that i found next to the LTA and now my Shrimp is barley moving this morning! and i foung him next to the LTA. if it is that dangerous can someone please recomend fish, inverts that it cant kill!

 

[Awibrandy]

Welcome to MR Jenpo!

I have never had a problem with either of my LTA with fish, or starfish. Can't say about shrimps as I don't keep shrimps in my anemone tank due to fear of my eels eating them.
Fish in my tank are clowns, dwarf angel, wrasse, and eels.
Starfish are chocolate chip starfish.

Have you checked your parameters?

 

[jenpo76]

hi! my parameters are 8 month old tank, spgrav 1.001, temp 76ish, no ammonia or nitrite, iodine is 0.11 ca 400, i need to get an alk test kit and ph test kit. ran out! but last checked a week ago was ph was 8. My LTA is vibrant green/brown and its base is bright orange. it also closes up and opens up every couple of hours, is not that sticky. but ive never touched one before HAHA. i feed it silver sides once a week, the tank zoo plankton every 3 days, purple up once a day, brine shrimp 2-3x a day. oh and i have some turbo snails and a snail that has a snorkle. Oh and do you think coral rx is good to use?

 

[ming]

I'm guessing you made a typo with your specific gravity. I would keep the specific gravity around 1.025
As for the shrimp, they are typically fine with anemones. I'd be only concerned with slow moving fish such as sea horses because they are slow and try to grab onto things, but you didn't things like that. Feeding brine 2-3x a day sounds like a lot. I'm not a fan of purple up because its their own mixture, where I rather dose what I need to get my parameters correct.

 

[jenpo76]

The guy at the store told me that he keeps the tank at a low SPgrav because parasites can't live in it. Do u think this is true? All my livestock seems to be doing well. I drip aclimate all new livestock ! Thanks for the help!

 

[dj ze]

for fish only tanks that's fine but for a reef you got keep it higher.and the anenome wont do anything to the shrimps mine will actually go inside of my anenome and steal its food

 

[jenpo76]

Much thanks i will up the spgrav.

 

[JimmyR1rider]

jenpo just make sure you change the SG real slowly. Dont wanna shock all your livestock. Good luck on the tank from here on out.

 

[ming]

So is it really 1.001? Thats almost fresh water and I would not have it that low.
Fish only it okay to have it lower then a reef, but still wouldn't keep it 1.001
Once you start adding inverts such as shrimp, starfish, I would keep higher then Fish Only levels, and then once you start adding a LTA, its considered a reef since an anemone is a mushroom coral.

 

[jenpo76]

thanks for the info. wow i guess i killed my shrimp! ive now gone up to 1.025 over 3 days and now my LTA wont stop moving around ! he does seem more active. Even more colorful! Reefs are definitely tough to keep! but its to late i'm hooked! hahaha!!