Brown Anemone

[RLIrwin]

After I got some live rock, I began seeing small brown tubelike amimals with
tentacles on the end not attched to the rock. The fish store told me they were
brown anemones. I had quite a few, but since getting some red legged hermit
crabs the numbers have been reduced substantially. Is this just coincidence or
will the crabs eat them?

[Billy]

"RLIrwin" > wrote in message
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| After I got some live rock, I began seeing small brown tubelike
amimals with
| tentacles on the end not attched to the rock. The fish store told
me they were
| brown anemones. I had quite a few, but since getting some red
legged hermit
| crabs the numbers have been reduced substantially. Is this just
coincidence or
| will the crabs eat them?

Hermits will eat nearly anything under the right circumstances, IME.
<g> Just be very sure that what you have are indeed "brown anenomes"
(juvenile tube-worms) and not Aiptasia. Do a search on google for
both, Aiptasia are a scourge, I just eradicated some myself, so did
quite a bit of reading, being my first time having them.


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