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Testing the potency of the toxins in these tube anemones have shown that they have little effect on test subjects, unlike true anemones, which had lethal effects. Tube Anemones use these bioluminescent tentacles to startle fish, thus keeping fish from nibbling on them.
The Tube Anemone or Tube Dwelling Anemone is a carnivore. Feed your Tube Anemone finely minced krill, fish, shrimp and/or frozen or live brine or mysis shrimp. Feed nightly unless you have a lot of copepods, amphipods and other small prey, and feed twice a week. Be careful not to feed with large pieces of food since it will damage the delicate tentacles.
The Tube Anemone is semi-aggressive, yet as far as "anemone" type corals go, they do not have as powerful of a sting as true anemones. Several Tube Anemone specimens can be kept in an aquarium, but they are not compatible with other anemone species. Though they do coexist with their own kind, they do not get along with their "cold" water siblings. Care should be taken to provide other corals with plenty of room. Make sure when the Tube Anemone comes out at night, their tentacles do not come in contact with delicate corals.
In the wild they have a commensal relationship with a variety of crustaceans and worm species, with these species living within their tubes. In the aquarium, you can include small hermit crabs, small shrimps, and most worms. Triggerfish and large angelfish, as well as large crabs lobsters, and snails should not be kept with them. They do not host clownfish.
they just call them that cause they look like them....
