danedodger
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Well the "zebra mat anemone" I was so glad NOT to get in our store last week came in today!
I can't get a pic but he's a good size already, about 4-5" tall and wide, with an orangish/reddish base (base makes up about 2" or so of the whole height), tentacles about 3" long or so that are greyish/tannish with darker striping on each tentacle (stripes go from the base towards the tip, not encircling the tentacles), blunt tipped. He didn't "walk" around like the condys either, just started sticking to the substrate where I put him but today was only his first day too. Can anyone maybe give me a more familiar common or scientific name on it and it's requirements? I'd like to do my best by the critter and make sure whoever buys him has the right set up and all. I've got him in with just the ocellaris since they're the most innocuous clowns and that tank may have actinics on it instead of plain flourescents. I tried to place him as "better safe than sorry" as I could.
I think it's probably the most beautiful anemone I've ever seen and not expensive at all!! I'm seriously thinking about buying him myself but again, I'd want more info before putting him, or my present tank babies, at risk. I've got a mature, 130 gallon with only a peppermint shrimp, blue legs, a yellow tang, one mushroom rock, one flower leather coral, and a ton of PC along with some actinic lighting (Fluval, dual biowheel HOB, mega DIY protein skimmer, and 55 gallon sump/refugium). Would I need to upgrade to halide necessarily (which I'm willing to do if I decide I want him that bad and it's really necessary)? Would he be ok with some carefully chosen and placed corals? He'd also be the only anemone ever in the tank since, from what I hear, different anemones don't tend to do too well in the same tank together, right?
I think it's probably the most beautiful anemone I've ever seen and not expensive at all!! I'm seriously thinking about buying him myself but again, I'd want more info before putting him, or my present tank babies, at risk. I've got a mature, 130 gallon with only a peppermint shrimp, blue legs, a yellow tang, one mushroom rock, one flower leather coral, and a ton of PC along with some actinic lighting (Fluval, dual biowheel HOB, mega DIY protein skimmer, and 55 gallon sump/refugium). Would I need to upgrade to halide necessarily (which I'm willing to do if I decide I want him that bad and it's really necessary)? Would he be ok with some carefully chosen and placed corals? He'd also be the only anemone ever in the tank since, from what I hear, different anemones don't tend to do too well in the same tank together, right?
