jtoliver
Member
I wanted to share my experience with anemones because of some things i have read lately. I have a 37 gal reef tank that when I started out in the hobby had an eclipse hood with 2 18 watt bulbs, I added an extra 20 watt actinic bub this brought my watts per gal. up to about 1.5 wpg. During this time I tried about 4 different anemones (I wanted my clowns to be happy) They all died after about 3 weeks. I then decided to upgrade lights and filter. I now have gotten rid of the eclipse and have a wet-dry sump, proteen skimmer, use only ro water and have gone to 3 75 watt vho, bringing light total to 6 wpg. I now have had a Long Tentacle anemone for 14 months that has grown 7 times it's beginning size, when fully open it is about a foot across. I feed it a couple of pieces of krill about twice a month. I have also a rock anemone that has tripled in size in the 6 months that I have had him. I havent lost any anemones since I upgraded the system. I just wanted to let people know that they aren't difficult to keep, you just have to give them the environment that they need.
The current one was labeled a LT at my LFS, but looks more like a pink/violet sebae if you ask me.
