Wanting advice for an anemone pick.

[sirabeln]

I have a 30 gallon tank with 2 false percs, 3 damselfish and 2 nassarius snails
I am currently upgrading my ligt system to 192 watts
Water parameters:
Ammonia:0ppm
Nitrite:0ppm
Nitrate:
Ph:8.2 and slowly drops to 8.1 over 2 weeks and water change brigs it up to 8.2
SG:1.0215
I cant think of any other details to include but will post ASAP if asked

 

[nycbob]

if u tank is mature enough, and hv enough light (t5 or mh perferably). i think a bta would do fine.

 

[sirabeln]

thx for the advice and my nitrate is 12ppm
my tank is 4 years old so it should be old enough
will my clowns host with a BTA?

 

[tfb05]

Your tank is old enough.
It is hit or miss with clowns hosting an anenome. I have two false percula's and neither has shown any interest in my BTA. In time they may, but nothing in the past few weeks.

 

[keebler]

What kind of lighting are you going to use? Just curious.

 

[rwall]

I have a BTA in my 150 with 2 false percs, 2 clarkiis and 1 yellow tail clarkii and none showed any interest for weeks, then I changed the direction of one of the power heads so that it was blowing a little more on the anemone and within 10 minutes one of the clarkiis was all over it. It's so much fun to watch!

 

[fox1135]

my perk jumped right in and took it over within a day. i belive he ignored it until the lights shut off and then he was all for it, and ever since shes loved it

 

[yearofthenick]

Most Pecula's and Ocellaris tend to be more attracted to long tentacle anemone's. None of my clowns ever wanted to host a bubble tip.

 

[srgvigil]

I too want to know what the lighting is, not just the watts but the lighting
MH?
T5?
PC?
Fluorecent?
VHO?

 

[sirabeln]

i believe my lighting system uses 2 compact florescent 1 true actinic and 1 12000k daylight.

 

[peachie98]

Watch out with only a 30 gallon...I've learned the hard way. I have a 40 gallon and have pretty much had to dedicate one half of the tank to my bta (it stretches out huge and I have to try to keep all other corals away from it). It split yesterday so now I'm really going to have to figure something out...hahaha!
I don't know if a bta will do okay with your lighting...mine thrives with my t5's but they've been broken for about 2 weeks and I can tell it's not as happy with just 1 t5 and my pc's. Wattage is "okay" but it's still been really reaching up for the lights since the setup broke (waiting on parts to fix it!!!).
I don't know about some of the other anenomes though...only telling you what I've noticed in my tank.
Good luck!

 

[sirabeln]