capman>Tube Anemone

[Stoney Reef]

After seeing your tube anemone, and well seeing an awesome one in the LFS today. I purchased it. I forgot how long you said you had yours? Also, you were feeding pieces of krill correct? This is some interesting info I found on live aquaria of all places and it may be the reason yours have not been doing well lately as they would be in winter in that part of the country . . . .. what are your thoughts?


The Tube Anemone is also referred to as the Tube Dwelling Anemone, and is best kept in an invertebrate-only or species-only aquarium with a soft, deep substrate. It is actually a distant relative of the true sea anemone. It creates its tube from the nematocysts that it has discharged.

This Anemone requires that the temperature in the aquarium be lowered to below 68 ºF for several months during the winter. It prefers periodic intermittent currents and needs moderate lighting within the aquarium.

Eating habits of the Tube Anemone can best be described as aggressive. After the lights are lowered it will capture its fish prey. It prefers to be fed often, even daily, with brine shrimp or pieces of fresh fish or shrimp.

[latazyo]

I"m not capman, but it sounds pretty sweet...I got a couple big majanos if anyone's intersted in them? jk...but the clowns host in them

[despot101]

I'm kinda interested in their care also....I've seen them around from time to time but always figured they were are to keep.

[David Grigor]

So Stoney, were are you putting this tube anemone ?

[Stoney Reef]

my 55 gallon mess of a tank that I keep at my grandmother's for her enjoyment which she has killed twice now by electrocution. Now I have banned her from touching the tank!

[Stoney Reef]

OK I found some more info, looks like we should be feeding silversides and not krill.


http://saltaquarium.about.com/gi/dyn...eranemone.html

[Stoney Reef]

Here is a quick pic, they never face the front glass do they!

[Stoney Reef]

forgot to post the pic

[Buzz_Hog]

Looks like fancy Aiptasia to me....

Stoney is trying to spoof us all into thinking it's something exotic....

[capman]

Originally posted by Stoney Reef
it may be the reason yours have not been doing well lately as they would be in winter in that part of the country . . . .. what are your thoughts?

I'm not actually sure that they have *not* been doing well lately. The purple one was getting bothered by the orange one (after the orange one grew a whole lot) before I separated them to opposite ends of the tank, but the purple one is looking more back to normal now. I think their partial retraction that I see sometimes is probably just related to very heavy feeding. Yesterday, for example, the orange one was droopy for half the day but during this time was ejecting a big strand of mucus-like stuff from its mouth (after eating a bunch of krill the day before...I think it was probably just defecating???). After it was done doing this it reinflated. If they are unfed for a day or two and they presumably get hungier their tentacle extension is tremendous.

The temperature thing might well be a factor, but there are many species of tube anemones, and I have no idea where the ones I have were collected.

So far, the two I have at Augsburg seem to be doing fine on daily or nearly every day feedings of a diet of krill, formula I, Formula II, and small, whole frozen fish. They have grown a lot and also lengthened their tubes quite a bit. However, I have only had them since early summer, so time will tell whether I'm really giving them what they need.