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Originally Posted by Flower A clown will even go get a critter to feed an anemone, they are buddies.. Yes, they are buddies, but IME when I see one of my many clowns take food to one of my many hosting anemones, I see it as if the fish is saying "" "here, hold this big hunk for me while I go...

Originally Posted by Flower Dear friend, ALL anemones eat fish…ALL OF THEM. Sure, I guess they CAN (especially sick lethargic fish), but I didnt think hosting species are efficiant predators that you make them out to be. Some Non hosting anemones are very efficiant predators. (remember ...

Originally Posted by Flower There is the remote possibility that the anemone was feasting on the skin that floated by from the shrimp shedding. Anemones eat whatever gets close enough to be stung and eaten. They are beautiful fish killers, that is just their nature. If your shrimp got to...

Stick with your instinct. Youll need live rotifers, but you can use dead phyto

teh questions are sort of broad. First let me say that a wandering anemone is an unhappy anemone. If you can provide the right conditions and get a good healthy anemone to start with they can actually be quite hardy depending on teh species and, again, the environment that YOU provide. IMO, a...

Ive raised a few thousand clowns. 8 different species. A few things I'd like to touch base on here. Also, the eggs should not be exposed to air ever! If they where transfered to another tank via pulling the rock out, bye bye eggs. All of my pairs spawn on a tile. Every batch, the tile has...

Originally Posted by Shrimpy Brains Well, I would say it is total bull, however, since Rod says it's possible, I give it a little more credibility, but still would like to see a video on this, as I find it very hard to believe those Cardinals aren't being munched!! Ive seen it with my own...

Only the anemones that naturally split can be "fragged", and it should only be done by an experienced anemone keeper. One that knows that there is a big difference between anemones. Not just between an h. mag and an S. helinthus, but between a gigantea and a hadoni and a Mertinsi (all carpets...

Originally Posted by YearOfTheNick You do realize it's upside down in this picture right? Actually in the picture you quoted from, it is not upside down. That is its severely gaping mouth. There is a pic a few post sbove that show it upside down.

First, I am not so sure its a BTA.. Looks more like an H.mag but very hard to tell from the pics. If that is the case, it will surely die in that container (will likelyy die anyway. if it is an H.mag it will want as much current as it can have so it can do its own internal water change. It will...

Its not all that uncommon, and not being eaten. When I was breeding Banggai back in 97-98, a very wise man (Morgan Lidster .. Inland Aquatics) suggested an M.doreensis (AKA LTA although its a BTA in question here), instead of a diadema urchin for the banggai fry to hide under. I have also...

Your magnifica is also a little bleached (expelled zooxanthallea) and will require a lot of good foods high in HUFFA/Omega3s and also some strong halides. Without the halides that anemone will starve. It may take 6 months to do so, but will certainly starve Starving for 6 months before dying...

Originally Posted by dirk_brijs read up some on the Sebea and I guess we have a winner. They dont seem to be movers. Am worried now about the light one I have as it seems there are no natural white ones and my light one is a very light pinkish white so I guess I bought a bleached specimen. Its...

Originally Posted by IBEW41 love your coral food are you going to make food just for anems soon. The "Original" fits that bill. Anemones were always on mind when I started and still thats all I ever use for mine.

Originally Posted by Garick Different clowns like different anems and some anems like the condy do not allow themselves to be hosted and can eat your fish. Best thing is to find out if your clowns are wild or tank raised. If they are raised what type they are since many TR clowns don't know...