Carpet Anemone in a dedicated nano? your thoughts?

[JonnyJ]

What are members thoughts on keeping a carpet anemone in a dedicated nem nano tank? My new tank is a custom all in one, its around 30" X 10" X 9" usable space. Its fit for a fuge and will be lit with fullspectrum led. so far with displacement it seems to run with around 10 gallons including the filter chambers. Obviously I would keep up on water changes but I'm
Not sure if it's even possible to keep in such a small tank.

Knowing Carpet anemones get large i am going to start with the smallest i can find and will re-home once it is to large to handle. Does anyone have any input how fast they may grow when healthy and being fed weekly?

I wanted to do a minimal liverock design, on the left side of the narrow tank will be a small liverock pile with mangrove(s) and on the right side i will have a carpet alone in the sand bed.


I have ran all but an anemone tank and i'm interested to see how it goes. A nano is my only option at this point. Just wondering if it's even feasible.



Livestock will be:

Pair of clowns
Various symbiotic inverts
Mangrove

Liverock
2" Sandbed
Carpet Anemone


Limiting my livestock to clownfish and symbiotic inverts should prevent any unwanted casualties from a spooked or passing fish.


Can anyone give any experience

 

[bertyboy69]

The only problem i see is nems should be fed, its keeps them healthy and happy when i dont feed mine after a few weeks they dont seem as happy , especially a carpet will enjoy alot of feeding , and that means it will grow quickly to at least a foot in diameter and then the griwth will slow down a little , a one foot nem in that tank will be quite big

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[JonnyJ]

Yea definitely going to get just too big for this tank in the long run, really just depends on how long. Prob re-evaluate and find a different species; prob would only work temporarily.

 

[bertyboy69]

Its just not worth it , i mean sure you could but withing a few months it would outgrow the tank you would barley get to enjoy it , you coukd definetly do a tank of bubble tips or rock flowers , there the only two speices i know that will stay small for a while. My bubble tips grow to like 6 inches or so and then slow down significantly and the rock flowers only get a few inches total

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[ssminnow81]

How bout a all tube anemone tank... Always wanted to
Do this just never followed through. Don't need
Much light cause there non photo and all the floresent colors would be insane.

 

[Reef13]

You can try a maxi mini anemone.. Great colors, rearely move around, stay small approx 3-4 inch max.. But be aware that It will consume fish that get close enough to it.. clowns don't host it.. It ate a green chromis, and a spotted goby of mine :-(

 

[jr973]

What type of carpet you looking to get. I recently got a gigantea from a tank breakdown. Originally in a 60 cube I now host this 12" carpet in a 93cube pictured below is the carpet. I'd say you get a medium sized one and you should be fine aquatic obsession had a few carpets last time I checked maybe try them out

 

[empire]

+1 on the maxi mini

 

[FastUno]

++1 on maxi mini, I have one in my 29g & also one in my 75g.