Tube Anemone A Good Idea?

[paintballer768]

Ive got a 24 gallon nano. Inhabitants are a true perc clown and a firefish. Some other corals, softies mostly. Cleaner shrimp. So could it be possible to have a tube anemone in there? Is it possible for the clown to host it? How often would I have to feed it? Thank you everyone!

 

[cooqie]

yea you can put it but be careful when it is moving and it stings your corals you dont have to feed it the light does that for you and sometime the clown fish will feed it

 

[paintballer768]

I dont think we're talking about the same anemone. Im referring to the kind that actually isnt an anemone, it looks just like it but in fact its not. Its non photosynthetic, doesnt move, and has 2 sets of tentacles. SWF.com sells them but they dont have the hot pink one I want, and also I dont want to spend 80$ right now on to fulfill the minimum order.

 

[reefkprz]

IMO a 24g nano is far too small for a tube anemone. their span can be over 8 inches that would dominate your tank. I left some information on your other thread.

 

[paintballer768]

I just read the other thread as well, thanks for responding on both. Posted on both sub-forums to get better results. Looks like tube anemone is out of the picture.

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by Cooqie
yea you can put it but be careful when it is moving and it stings your corals you dont have to feed it the light does that for you and sometime the clown fish will feed it

They are non photosynthetic and cannot move around....

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by paintballer768
I just read the other thread as well, thanks for responding on both. Posted on both sub-forums to get better results. Looks like tube anemone is out of the picture.

While I agree that in time it will outgrow a 24 gal tank.. IMO they do not grow fast. I have had mine for almost 6 months feed it every other day and it hasnt grown at all since I purchased it. Well let me say it hasent grown to where you can see it. Just my 2 cents.

 

[shrimpi]

I love mine... they grow slow... absolute beautiful colors... and you dont have to have MH! I love my corals, I think I have a nice assortment of beautiful stuff, zoas, palys, dendros, duncans, candycanes xenia, ricordia.. in every color... but the first thing people notice in my tank... is the TUBE anemone....
a friend of mine just came home from iraq after 2 yrs and saw the tank .. first words... "OMG is that a REAL anemone?"
Thats all he cared about! So yeah, I like it, and if I could, Id have two of them in my tank.
Ok now the problems...
they can eat stupid fish- stupid fish= slow moving, small, that swim right into its tentacles (although mine has never eaten a fish, it recently tried to eat my nudi, and the nudi died.)
thier tentacles get LOOOONG~ one of my corals was not extending very well, I have two of the same coral (dendro) within 4" of eachother ... one looked great.. the other not so great. I couldnt figure it out. One night, it caught the corner of my eye and from the side angle of the tank I could see that the very very tips of the anemones tentacles (almost transparent they are so thin at the tip) was barely brushing my dendro!!! AHHHHHHHH

So I moved the dendro and hes fine. but, you have to be careful.
They do secure themself to thier surroundings like a tubeworm so its not easy to move them once they are 'anchored'
They NEED a DSB for thier monstrous tube.
Verdict:
You can have one but its not a permanent decision ... like most things in a nano... it will outgrow the tank.
buy a real pretty SMALL one. VERY VERY small one. and make him his very own cave/section of the tank where you will not put corals anywhere near it. remember those tentacles reach up, out and all around him.
Good Luck!
Jessica.

 

[mmm33732]

Originally Posted by Cooqie
yea you can put it but be careful when it is moving and it stings your corals you dont have to feed it the light does that for you and sometime the clown fish will feed it
you need to do a little homework...
"when its moving"-they cant move. they live in a tube they build from sand and secretions.
"light does that for you"-they don't require light as they are not photosynthetic.
"clownfish will feed it"-i don't believe theres any species of clownfish that will host a tube anemone.

 

[paintballer768]

Thanks Shrimpi, the one that I would get is in a 225 right now. Its about 5-6" from mouth to the end of its tube, without tentacles in the length there. Way too big for my tank. I just decided that Im going to get a sun coral instead, because I do regular spot feeding (every 2-3 days) and I dont have a problem doing that one too, and with PCs its even better.