Rose Anemone & Maroon

[viper_930]

Originally posted by Debbie
Thank you, are they easy to keep? Could they be put in a 10 nano?

No anemone IMO should be put into a tank smaller than 25-30 gallons. The water quality is much harder to stabalize in smaller tanks, and that is essential to anemones.
Originally posted by snailheave
My tank is 75G, and if using the watts over gallon formula, it comes out with roughly 2.5 watts per gallon. So if the formula was 100% accurate, my anemone should've been weak and shrunk by now. But it hasn't. It has gotten bigger and has healthy looking bulbs. Heck, it even gains bulbs under puny fluorscent light. My anemone is about a foot away from the light source.
Even with inadequate lighting anemones could still be full and open. It could take many months for an anemone to slowly starve to death from light starvation. You're lighint is very very low, but it may be able to get by. Feed it 3 times weekly.
Also, watts per gallon is not a good formula to go by. Light intensity is what counts.

 

[snailheave]

the little devil

 

[snailheave]

I have a shallow tank, I think depth/placement is just as important as light itself.

 

[marco333]

Hey snailheave, that looks more like the false gramma, or some type of dottyback.

 

[powdertoastman]

light placment isnt going to matter if you dont have light that is strong enough to reach the sand bed. yes it will light up, but that doesnt mean that it is strong enough light for corals/anemones. we used to have a 55g with duel 96w PC's on it, and lost an anemone due to lack of info and light. we feed it 3 times a week and it looked great at first, got huge but then just died. they can survive without food, but not without light. if i were you i would get more light for it asap.

 

[corbin1234]

maroons are cool anemones, mine kinda pisses me off though, it keeps splitting! i just want it to get really big

 

[wocka]

how would a RBTA do under 2x65w pc light,3/4w moon light. i have a 20g tank 24L x 17H x 12W

 

[wocka]

bump

 

[wocka]

some one must know

 

[wocka]

anyone home?

 

[hiddenicon]

it would do ok i think, wouldn't thrive i think but i think it would stay healthy. I had mine under 130 watts in my 30 and it did ok but now that i'v got it under 192 watts it loves it

 

[wocka]

id rather have a frogspawn for hammer, easier to take care of and cheaper. anyways, will the frogspawn live off of the light? what care do i have to take?

 

[hiddenicon]

yea it should. care-would be those things liquids that Kent makes that help corals. Just read on the bottles and it'll tell you if you should use it.

 

[wocka]

Kent Coral-Vite? i have that allready i hope thats it

 

[hiddenicon]

yea that's one big one but i think there are maybe like one or 2 other ones, like the Liquid Calcium, etc.

 

[snailheave]

micro-vert for food and pro buffer dKH

 

[hiddenicon]

yes micro-vert is what i was trying to think of