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left4fish http:///forum/thread/379819/anemone-food#post_3302813
1. 30 gal; is that too small? I'd probably stick with the one's less than 2 inches in diameter since I read somewhere that anemones will expand and contract so they can go up to twice that size.
2. It's quite dark atm (5 AM and can't sleep ><) but atm the light I have in there says "50/50 combination of 6500k trichromatic daylight phosphor and actinic 420 phospor". When it comes to lighting (okay everything) I'm still very new. There's only that one bulb so I'm guessing I'd need to invest in better lighting? This is just the bulb the guy at ***** suggested and said I'd be fine, but idk. I don't know anything about lights other than how to change to the bulb and turn it on ><
3. Like 10 weeks? Long story short my brother had been cycling this tank for about 4 weeks, but then he unexpectedly (or so he says) got into med school across the country. So I moved into his apartment and he left the tank for me since he knows I'm an animal freak and always wanted one. I checked on it a couple times for a 2.5 more weeks before adding the fish. Had the clowns for just over 3 weeks now. So I guess like 9-10 weeks. Sorry, force of habit I measure age in weeks until the 6 month mark.
As for what's in the tank, I know he used two bags of live sand because I say them in the trash when I got here but I don't know on lbs because I wasn't paying attention when I threw them away. He has some live rock, no idea on how many lbs since he says he bought them visually. They line the length of the tank and slope inward (largest on the sides and smaller in the middle). He has a fake treasure chest they like to hide in sometimes. They being a purple pseudo, a striped cardinalfish, a maroon clown, and an occie clown. I highly doubt I'd add more fish, but the cardinal looks lonely esp. since the p.p. likes to randomly charge him once every six or so hours. But there's no way I could school it in my tank and the guy said it'd be fine. I might add more snails, they creep me out. Or some hermits but I feel like that's a disaster waiting to happen with an anemone. I see tentacles getting snipped and smaller hermits possibly eaten?
Dumb question, I had just always assumed clowns were "immune/less sensitive" from birth. Does this come with age?
Hijack away
Interesting detour. Gave me a lot more to think about and ideas. So thank you for hijacking
And I won't be too heartbroken if they don't host. It'd be awesome, but I think I'll live
I have two BTAs in my 29g with a 50/50 65 watt coralife light (cost me like 80$) over them and they are fine,( T-5s would be a better investment though IMO). But they do like to be in the upper colum of the tank. I also have some soft corals (gsp, mushrooms, and kenya trees so far) and they all seem to be doing well. Hate to say but, your tank is not mature enough for a BTA, you should wait untill its at least 6 months old for it to become mature and stable.
I wouldnt worry about hermints and anemones, my Blue leg hermits like to crawl underneath the shade of my anemones and sit there untill the lights turn off.
