Looking for inexpensive Anemone

[digitalis]

I want try try again with an anemone. I have already bought 2, and both have died. I have since changed my water parameters, and nothing has died since the stats have settled. I think my 'strange problem' was my salinity due to an inaccurate refractometer. I got a bobber, and since then we're doing great. No fish have died. No sickly coral. The only thing is my scolymia died, but I think that was dead before the salinity was changed.
I don't want to pay $70 for another anemone to die. If anyone has one that they don't want, or that has split, I'd be interested in making a deal.
Thanks!

[Hendersonracing]

you can buy a florida condi for about 8.00 that will give you a good idea if they will live or not....or a seabae for about 20.00...I like them better because they don't float around as much!

[ckusnierek]

MWC usually has seabea for $30. I got lucky a while back MWC was out and I went to martins in Elkhart and got a NICE graan carpet for 30.

aren't Condys really hardy? If so not a scientific way of testing params.

[digitalis]

I got both from MWC. First was a purple tipped Sebae, and he told me it was like $69 or something. Then I got a blue carpet, and it was like $69 or $79. I'll have to see what they have some day.

[Adnuces]

ouch.....most sebaes that you buy from lfs around here are already doomed to die. Almost any I have ever seen are bleached beyond hope. I recently added a nice small lta that I picked up for a good price ( I think it was about $30) and it was very small 3 inches across and somewhat bleached as it was a creamy colour but you could barely see the tips were peachy coloured. I have since been feeding it and it has coloured up nicely to a pale green and peach with what looks to be almost purplish starting..My clarkiis took to it immediately and actually feed it. I did purchase a half dollar sized green bta about 8 months ago which has blossomed to about 8-10inches across now....and think she is eating a whole silverside a week and growing gangbusters only problem with this one is it has decided it wants to live in the back of my 75g and extends itself up to be fed. My two ocellaris clowns don't even know it is there and wont have anything to do with it. Previously I had lost both a bta and sebae.......both were bought bleached and didn't make it. So I think it depends on the health of the specimen......the amount you feed it and the light situation. I would look for a healthy long tenticle anemone as they and the bubble tips seem to be the most forgiving and the easiest to keep.

[bklynmet]

try to go with a BTA - I have one in the 20g and it's doing really well. I agree with lorna about getting a healthy specimen right off the bat.

[digitalis]

And both of mine never made it past 2 months. Both were 4-6 weeks in my tank before they started to actually show signs of dying. May be a little more toward the healthy to start with. I know the purple tipped was never dark colored. It was always bright white... bleached in my book.

[LedZeppelinfan101]

Originally Posted by digitalis

I got both from MWC. First was a purple tipped Sebae, and he told me it was like $69 or something. Then I got a blue carpet, and it was like $69 or $79. I'll have to see what they have some day.

$69 for a freaking sebae?!?! I'm not trying to advertise, but at Martin's Pet and Garden in Elkhart we sell them for $29. That's outrageous! I know they don't like anemones over at MWC but that's absolute robbery.

[Adnuces]

white with purple tips is definitely bleached. Most sebaes should be brownish showing healthy zoanthelle.....I would lean towards the bta or lta as being more tolerant of lower light and hardier.