Originally Posted by
troy989
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do u have stock lighting bcause i would love an anenome. how do u feed him i here some people hand feed and i wana keep him of the glas how would i do that??
Yeah I have stock lighting. I hand feed. Anemones only usually stick to the glass if they have no sand or rock to put their foot in. The ones you see at a LFS usually have no sand or rocks to get into so that when someone buys one, they can be easily removed. I dripped acclimated my sebae and then used a plastic bag to transfer him and put him where I wanted him to be. At first, I put him in the sand but I woke up to find the little bugger at the mouth of my cave. So, I found a piece of live rock with a good, deep hole in it so that it would feel safe and attach itself there. Now, he sits at the front of my tank!
I didn't do much research on anemones before I bought my first one and that was a mistake. I bought a beautiful bubble anemone and it looked healthy at the LFS but come to find out, it wasn't. I floated him and put him in my tank, what the LFS told me to do, and it went into shock I guess and died. Plus, bubble anemones aren't very hardy. That was a mistake listening to the LFS guy instead of doing my own research. Lesson learned.
So if you get one, drip acclimate, be careful when transfering to your tank, wear a glove or plastic bag, put it near the top but not up enough so that it cannot extend fully, and lastly pick a hardier anemone like a Sebae.