Sebae Anemonee difficulty?

[reef_dart21]

How hard are they too acclimate? and how difficult to mantain?

 

[scottallert]

i dont even feed mine it rejects food, ive had it for about a year and still hasent eaten. and looks nice and healthy.

 

[pumper]

I have one, I drip acclimated for temp/salinity for about 1.5 hours. It wondered around my tank for about 45 days before attaching to a rock, then looked like ass for about another month after attaching. I added and anemone crab who only leaves to molt. Like the gentleman before me, it will take food but release it after a few minutes. It has never ate anything I have given it. Since it has attached to a rock, I moved it as far up in the tank as I could and the colors are getting vibrantly beautiful. Would I have made this purchase knowing what I know now? No. They are not a home for percs as the lfs stated.

 

[jimmy40741]

I have had one for about 6 to 8 months and it's doing great. When I got it it was white and about the size of a half dollar, now it's about 6 inches or more across. When I first got it I set him in the sand bed but he never moved, planted his foot or ate, and my sebae clown would uproot him by hosting it so hard. But after some advise from PerfectDark I build a little ledge higher in the tank from live rock to get it closer to the lights and within about 2 days it planted it foot, turned a darker color and started growing. My clown feeds him, but I also give him a little piece of shrimp once every 1-2 weeks and it only takes a couple of seconds for him to get it to his mouth. I have only had the one sebae anemone, but from my experience I would say that they are not at all hard to keep if you have decent lighting.

 

[perfectdark]

They are more difficult to keep than condy's and BTA's are but not the most difficult. Your success with them will depend on the environment you set up for it. Tank maturity, lighting and water chemistry will either help or hinder the health of this animal thus making it either hardy or extremely difficult to keep. HTH good luck.

 

[aquaknight]

The hard part, IME, is finding a good specimen of sebae. One that isn't completely bleached, or dyed some retarded color, or is almost completely retracted. A sebae should be a brown/purple/green color, and have longer tentacles (not quite BTA or LTA, but decent length). The rest is exactly what PD said.