Identity of Anemone
- Thread starter fishguy23
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- poughquag, ny
hard to tell and how long has it been in the tank and what lights do you have ?
- Location
- Staten Island
Not sure of your tank size but you may need stronger lighting.
Looks like a long tentacle anemone that is very unhappy. You will need to upgrade your lighting and make sure your water parameters are great if you want to keep this anemone long term. Also make sure your power head intakes are covered so you don't make anemone soup.
Thanks Brendan, I think Im gnnaa head back to the LFS & demand a refund, I had the intentions of keeping a hardy anemone such as the pink tip, but was duped into this one! Won't mention the lfs but all I can say is it was destroyed in a previous forum!
Yea maybe you can try a condy anemone too, they're really cheap. I think they don't need that much light from my personal experience because mine happens to hide under caves or rocks every time I move it into the light, but I feed it a piece of shrimp 1-3 times a week
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- 11756
I'm with Chief..it looks like a sickly very unhappy LTA(long tentacle anemone). Pretty sure that IS NOT a tube anemone. Take it back, get your money back, and get something that will thrive in your tank. You'll be much happier in the long run.
HTH.
-Kris
HTH.
-Kris
- Location
- 11756
It's most likely moving to cave like areas because of you're harassing it. Leave it to find a place where it's happy and don't move it out into open areas. It's moving for a reason, if it wants to come out and get light and be happy it will. The more you move it the more you stress it.
Condy's need a good amount of light from what I understand and personally in fishguy's setup he doesn't ahve much light. Thats a little over 30 watts of daylight over a 30gallon tank, not much IMO.
You guys shouldnt recommend things that cause people to go out and waste time, effort, and money.
Fishguy,
I'd look into upgrading lighting if possible, I dont if you can in eclipse tanks. If you can't I'd stick to a FOWLR, cause with those lights almost nothing will be happy
. -Kris
Dam some of you people are vicious...it's so annoying...
- Location
- 11756
Annoying!...
- Location
- 11756
You're entitled to your opinion. I'll say no more.
Back to topic, sorry for the hijack Fishguy
Happy Reefing.
-Kris
- Location
- Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY
Isn't one of the golden rules to buying animals in fish stores.......
"Research before you buy!"
And a close second was....
"never 100% trust what fish stores say something is"
:splitspin
Every store has some type of book to look things up in. Just ask. It'll save you alot of time, money and effort in trying to keep an animal.
Look at the beginner thread, there is a great photo you should look at posted at the top of it. Know what your buying and know if you can keep it or not. Looks like a condy, and nano is right your pushing it with light. =)
And noones beeing annoying or vicious. You also shouldn't be moving it at all, its gonna move itself. You can feed it all you want but if it keeps getting moved its going to die of stress anyways =0)
"Research before you buy!"
And a close second was....
"never 100% trust what fish stores say something is"
:splitspin
Every store has some type of book to look things up in. Just ask. It'll save you alot of time, money and effort in trying to keep an animal.
Look at the beginner thread, there is a great photo you should look at posted at the top of it. Know what your buying and know if you can keep it or not. Looks like a condy, and nano is right your pushing it with light. =)
And noones beeing annoying or vicious. You also shouldn't be moving it at all, its gonna move itself. You can feed it all you want but if it keeps getting moved its going to die of stress anyways =0)
Sorry everyone, didn't mean to cause so much tension, I haven't brought it back yet but have been doing research and I am 99% sure it is a Rock Flower Anemone, the photo does no justice, it was photographed w/ in minutes of putting it in the tank after acclimation. I will post a present pic, he has opened up alot, from what I have read if in fact it i s a RFA is that they are one of the hardiest. Like I said the lfs claimed it was a zebra, I relied too much on what they claim.
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Yea from that pic it definately is a rock flower anemone because I have one myself and it looks just like that. And yes I think you should be ok with it, I've had mine since when I started almost and that's about 2-3 years or so. Also in the past I didn't have MH lighting and it was doing ok. Try feeding it pieces of shrimp once a week or so, that's what I do with mine. Good luck with it and enjoy
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