My Sebae anemone
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thomas712
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Well I guess I wouldn't complain if my anemones doubled in size. Well maybe I would having as many as I have.
I have to ask though about your system and lighting though, I do know sebae's enjoy metal halides, but I'd like to know what you contribute your success too.
Thomas
I have to ask though about your system and lighting though, I do know sebae's enjoy metal halides, but I'd like to know what you contribute your success too.
Thomas
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thomas712
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Originally Posted by pappy112
I have a jbj 24 gallon nano cube dx with standard light power compact, he is about 12" from the lighting
PC lighting will not do for sebae anemone, in almost ALL cases they would fare much better using Metal Halide. It would be my guess that this will be a slow death march for your anemone.
Good luck
Thomas
I have a jbj 24 gallon nano cube dx with standard light power compact, he is about 12" from the lighting
PC lighting will not do for sebae anemone, in almost ALL cases they would fare much better using Metal Halide. It would be my guess that this will be a slow death march for your anemone.
Good luck
Thomas
saltwater8
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If hes had it for 2 months and its doubled in size, if can't be too bad...
promisetbg
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It is impossible for an anemone to have actually grown to double it's size in two months. My guess is it is expanding as much as possible to aquire the most amount of light that it can. What color is it? It will not survive long term with the lighting in your tank.
pclown
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Originally Posted by promisetbg
It is impossible for an anemone to have actually grown to double it's size in two months. My guess is it is expanding as much as possible to aquire the most amount of light that it can. What color is it? It will not survive long term with the lighting in your tank.
I agree!!!
It is impossible for an anemone to have actually grown to double it's size in two months. My guess is it is expanding as much as possible to aquire the most amount of light that it can. What color is it? It will not survive long term with the lighting in your tank.
I agree!!!
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thomas712
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I guess there would be a lot of variables here. What size was the anemone when it was collected?, was it housed in inferior lighting and if so for how long? Were the water parameters poor? Things like that, or even was it a colonial/clone or solitary anemone? and then what are we talking about here, was it the tentacles that expanded twice there size or the actual oral disk?
In my case I remember my first Bubble tip anemone over 5 years ago, I still have the little tribble. At the time I had poor lighting only 80 watts of normal output, then I got 360 watts of VHO and in less than three months it went from golf ball size to softball size and then split. Thats a pretty big difference golf ball to softball size.
Call it growth, well maybe not, but I have no documentation on the growth rates of anemones, but I can tell you mine more than doubled in size, but it may have been a condition from having been larger but then shrinking do to conditions. Who knows? It just may have seemed to have grown that much.
Thomas
In my case I remember my first Bubble tip anemone over 5 years ago, I still have the little tribble. At the time I had poor lighting only 80 watts of normal output, then I got 360 watts of VHO and in less than three months it went from golf ball size to softball size and then split. Thats a pretty big difference golf ball to softball size.
Call it growth, well maybe not, but I have no documentation on the growth rates of anemones, but I can tell you mine more than doubled in size, but it may have been a condition from having been larger but then shrinking do to conditions. Who knows? It just may have seemed to have grown that much.
Thomas