which anenome?

[col]

Is there any anenome that would fit in a fish only set up, with no special lighting needed.
I'm using UGF at the moment, and although nitrates are not high, they are not zero either.

 

[wingnut]

all corals of any kind need some nautrul lighting depending on the size of your tank but puting a anenome in a fish only tank is not that great of a idea they tend to eat fish

 

[bang guy]

Aiptasia or Mojano

 

[grouperman]

i have 2 hatian anemones and no special lightng and they are doing great

 

[sistrmary]

I think that rock anemones (of which I have billions lol) are about as low-light as you can get, but if you're talking about "real" aka clownfish compatible anemones, I'd say entemacea quadricolor...the bubbletip. It's the only anemone that I've found that is nearly as sturdy as a rock anemone...if they stress out? they split. If they get sucked into the powerhead? They split five or six times. (My friend had this happen *twice* and is now the proud owner of about ten thumbtacked size bubbletips lol)
If you want tough, no light required but not *exactly* an anemone...go for an elephant ear mushroom. They eat solid food as well as filter your water...and you can't kill them if you try. Mine was ripped in half by a giant bristleworm, and within a week, it had started regenerating, and now it's five times the size it was when I got it, and it bears a rather interesting scar. Tough tough tough lol

 

[slothy]

Originally posted by golfish
IMO, Anemones should not be kept at all. They have a very slim chance of living even for an expert....read this
http://www.reefs.org/library/article/r_toonen8.html
golfish is the anti - anemone guy

 

[sistrmary]

I have two bubbletips, a long tentacled and a whole lot of rock anemones...they're thriving...it's fine for you to not keep them, and I would really prefer it if LFS's would not sell them as they do beings that 95% of the anemones that come through them die because they sold one to some guy who thought that he could use table salt and a flashlight to set up his aquarium.
But, I also feel this way about most butterfly fish and a lot of angels...they're better left on the reef because their survival rate is so low. But, just as the government doesn't force soon to be parents to show their credentials whenever they're plotting having a baby, a pet store will not ask if you know what you're doing...until someone comes back with a dead anemone demanding that they want their money back. Then they ask all kinds of questions.
Technically, we should leave everything we've got in our tanks back on the reef...but we're human...and we love to collect things. For a while I had a problem with this...but now I'm to the point where I want to buy out my LFS just because I know that I can almost always make the stuff live. I know what I'm doing, unlike thousands of salt water hobbyists. *shrugs* I know the theory about "If you stop buying it, they'll stop harvesting it." but I also know that it really doesn't work...you have to get everyone to stop buying them...and that isn't going to happen...so I figure if I buy it, I know at least it has a very good chance of living.

 

[flamehawk]

None. They s/b left in the ocean.

 

[demosthenes]

Nice response Golfish. Very well played.

 

[wingnut]

is that a link to your reef golfish if so Very nice display i wish i could get a pic of mine to post

 

[killyah]

those were great links to anemone guys! it saved me alot of questions i was ganna ask

 

[richy rich]

All anemones WILL die in captive its the facts. The average anemone lives between 100 and 300 years left alone.If you can keep one alive in your tank 1 year your a hero............... Why bother??

 

[col]

Richy Rich - The pictures of your tank show an anenome!!!