Roaming Rose Bubble Anenomes....

akeyzoo · 03-10-2005, 10:52 AM

So, I am the same guy that had a water emergency a few weeks ago. Ever since I ran my tank **** near out of water, my RBT anenome has been "on the move". Well, there is some good news, he/she just split and now I have two! BUT, they are BOTH on the move and are stumbling into other corals and high intensity lighting areas. Any ideas on keeping these puppies still?

BTW, tank is doing fantastically.

Chris

mwanttie · 03-10-2005, 12:43 PM

Glad to hear that your tank made it.

Sorry, can't help with the anenomes.

ski1297 · 03-10-2005, 12:44 PM

Thats cool that they split for you. They will move until they find a place with the right light and water flow. Do you feed them . I feed mine krill when I feed him a night he will stay for about 2 days. If I do not feed him after about 2 days he will move around.

atzak · 03-10-2005, 02:45 PM

I keep mine on a large rock isolated from the rest of the rock, they will very rarely leave the rock and go wandering.

David Grigor · 03-10-2005, 04:24 PM

That's just part of the risk of having anemones. I don't know of anything you can do. The bummer is when they do find a spot and it's positioned in the back where you can't enjoy it.....

They can stay content to be in one spot for years and then start wandering. If you have any powerheads in the tank you definately want to keep sponge filters on the intake when they start moving.......

akeyzoo · 03-10-2005, 04:30 PM

David,
Good idea on the sponge filters on PH's. I do not have any, but do have a strainer on the input for my CLS. Luckily that input is pretty low (6" off tank bottom) and underneath my eggcrate platform. Tried to position it for just this reason, plus didn't want to see it. Of course the tradef off is that it is buried in rock.

Yesterday one of my babies had wandered way up under the MH's at night, and during the day had to retract all of its tentacles to expose it's green surface to fight the light. I just hate to see these guys pick obviously wrong places, but they always end up on my biggest pieces of rock making re-orientation near impossible.

The joys of reef-ing...

I will need to share photo's of my tank after the move, I think it is just stunnning.

Chris