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06-29-2003, 02:45 PM
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this is why i i tell people not to anemones
well earlier in the week (mon) i broke down and bought a sabae anemone. i always tell people not to do it, well i decided to try it and today it is all shrivled up. is it dieing? i really hope not, i had it placed on the rocks then it decided to move twards the bottom which was fine with me. well today it is sitting with most of the tenticles withdrawn. i am so sad.......
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06-29-2003, 03:04 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Blaine, WA
Posts: 68
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I fine Sabae anemones a hard one to keep. Most are already in trouble when you buy them from what I've seen.
I recomend the BTA as a first one. It seems to come in in the best shape and is the easiest in my opinion to keep. It should be in a stable well established tank with a lot of pods. I feed mine weekly. The BTA also seems to do well with lower light levels than a lot of the others.
Ray
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06-29-2003, 10:54 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Niagara Falls
Posts: 14
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Don't feel bad my seabae is doing the same. All looked well until my snowflake started to mess with it. Now it is face down under the rocks. Waiting to see what happens next.
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06-30-2003, 12:16 AM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
Posts: 5,815
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My BTA seems to enjoy alot of light under my 250ww MH 10,000k and 2-96ww PC's actinic 03. I have had it for over 3 months and doing really well. I feed it once a week with home made mush! 
Last edited by MontanaRocknReefer; 06-30-2003 at 12:19 AM.
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06-30-2003, 12:26 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: lykens pa
Posts: 559
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Ok this will sound a little odd but I have a purple tipped sabae anemone and its doing great. I have **** for lighting but my 2 clown fish keep it fed well and cleaned quite well also. Either I am just lucky rite now or I got a great anemone to start with. |
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06-30-2003, 07:09 AM
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Automotive Paint Nerd
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Livonia, MI
Posts: 603
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Agreed with the BTA, even though my BTA has not had "bubble tips" since the day I got it. Mine prefers lower levels of light and I have 2 clowns living in it. I think the anemone is going on 5-6 years now.
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06-30-2003, 12:49 PM
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Reef Dork
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 295
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Im thinking of getting one...which is the best fit for a pair of maroon clowns?
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06-30-2003, 01:42 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
Posts: 5,815
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Maroon (P. biaculeatus) host with Entacmaea quadricolor -- Bulb anenome, Maroon anenome.
Also clowns will host with several coral species as well. |
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06-30-2003, 02:03 PM
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well i moved mine off the rocks and made a little cave for it, it has sopened up today although not as nice as it was so maybe it was just unhappy...... i still am the biggest advocate to kieeping anemones though......im such a hippocrate
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07-02-2003, 09:26 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Blaine, WA
Posts: 68
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Quote:
Originally posted by MontanaRocknReefer
My BTA seems to enjoy alot of light under my 250ww MH 10,000k and 2-96ww PC's actinic 03. I have had it for over 3 months and doing really well. I feed it once a week with home made mush!
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Just to clearify. I did not mean they do not do well under good lighting. Just that they seem to do better under lower light as far as anemones go, from what I've Seen.
Ray
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07-02-2003, 11:44 AM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Just South Of Seattle
Posts: 10,496
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Don't pet the anemones, they don't like it! Try using a feeding prong if you want to move it and only do that if it's in danger of crawling under the rockwork and dying on you. Dead anemone is a heck of a goopy mess to get out of your rocks  I hope yours comes around, mnreefman.
Alice
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07-02-2003, 03:35 PM
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Ughhh.. Dinoflagelettes..
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Yardley, PA
Posts: 1,262
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My BTA's are doing great, but my Condy is in bad shape.... I guess he got into a fight with my torch and lost... He was just floating around the tank, so I quickly scooped him out and have him in a quarentine specimen container just in case he dies off... It'll be a ton easier to remove him in the container than from a rock or from the sand...
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07-02-2003, 03:39 PM
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wel hes getting bigger every day, just not attaching himself.
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07-02-2003, 03:42 PM
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Officially insane...
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Chico, CA
Posts: 658
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My baby carpet anemone went walkabout after lights out the other night and tangled with my elephant ear mushroom... it wasn't pretty.
By the time I found it the next morning it was toast.
My BTA is doing wonderfully though... the bubble tips have finally come back. I think I read somewhere that in lower light conditions BTA's lose their bubbles... mine didn't inflate them when it was under 220w of PC's for a week, but it's loving the 250w of Ushio 10K Halide I added. |
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10-02-2003, 05:19 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 240
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Most sabae's dont live a year in a tank, lucky if you manage to get one to.
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