Help Identify Pictures

[Layer3guru]

These are pics of my 5 month old 55 gallon.
I only have 3 fish and 1 anemone and 2 shrimp and 1 hitchhiker crab.

I would like to know what type of anemone it is so I can buy the proper
lighting, and what is your recommendations on lighting for it. Also if it
looks healthy to you experts I feed it once every 3 days by hand with
Formula One Frozen, I also feed the fish mysis shrimp and flakes and some of
this gets stuck to the tentacles that the anemone will eventually eat.

What type of crab is this, he has not bothered anything in the tank at all
sort of just keeps to himself, the picture with the large hole in the live
rock is where he hangs out and where I think he was when I purchased the
rock.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated, I am going to buy another
shipment of live rock to fill out the rest of the tank. Also my first time
with a digital camera I got for Christmas so be easy about the horrible
picture taking :)

http://www.digitalrage.org/tank/index.html

55gallon
80 pounds of Live Rock
40 Pounds of Live Sand
CPR BAK PAK 2
1 150w heater
1 100w heater
1 MaxiJet 1200
1 Powerhead 606

1 110Watt white light in Hood
1 80W 50/50 Light in Hood

I am looking to replace my lighting, I got this because I thought it would
be good for fish only, but when my wife saw the clown and the yellow tail
damsel both hiding out in this anemone we could not leave the store without
it. The lights are on digital timer 50/50 come on an hour before the white
lights, and the white lights go off and hour before the 50/50's. 50/50 run
for 12 hours the white lite run for 10.

[Adam]

> These are pics of my 5 month old 55 gallon.
> I only have 3 fish and 1 anemone and 2 shrimp and 1 hitchhiker crab.
>
> I would like to know what type of anemone it is so I can buy the proper
> lighting, and what is your recommendations on lighting for it. Also if it
> looks healthy to you experts I feed it once every 3 days by hand with
> Formula One Frozen, I also feed the fish mysis shrimp and flakes and some
of
> this gets stuck to the tentacles that the anemone will eventually eat.

I'm going to guess that that is a Bubble Tip Anemone (BTA). I'm not sure of
the technical name. I have a BTA that looks a lot like that except that it
is green. I have seen pink ones for sale on the net. I feed mine a mixture
of frozen clam, frozen mysis shrimp, brine shrimp and tropical fish food. I
take a measuring cup (1/2 cup) and get water from the tank thaw all the
frozen ingredients in that water drain the water rince and then add the fish
food, mix well and then give about a 1/4 inch chunk to the Anemone.
Whatever is left over goes to the other creatures in the tank and in my
other salt tank. I do this every 3-5 days. An Anemone that size don't
require a lot and will fowl the tank if over fed.

As far as lighting goes mine is a little strong for the Amones (I have 2) at
1 10,000k 65 watt and 1 Ultra Actinic 65 watt on a 29 gallon tank. if you
doubled this set up (IE: 4 lights) and allow for an area for the Anemone to
get in partial shade but where you can still see it you should be fine.

> What type of crab is this, he has not bothered anything in the tank at all
> sort of just keeps to himself, the picture with the large hole in the live
> rock is where he hangs out and where I think he was when I purchased the
> rock.

Not sure what kind of crab you got there but you might try a search on the
net to figure it out.


> Any comments would be greatly appreciated, I am going to buy another
> shipment of live rock to fill out the rest of the tank. Also my first time
> with a digital camera I got for Christmas so be easy about the horrible
> picture taking :)

The pictures look great and your tank looks a lot like mine as far as
critters rock etc. Good luck and HTH

Ed

By the way I run my lights on a timer and have them all turn on and off at
the same time (12 on and 12 off). I'll be adding a DIY moonlight kit to
this set up in the near future.

[Boomer]

Anemone BTA

Crab looks like a _Mithrax forceps_Red-Ridged Cling Crab

http://www.nhm.org/guana/bvi-invt/bvi-surv/images/crab-i03/mith-for.htm

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"Layer3guru" > wrote in message
...
: These are pics of my 5 month old 55 gallon.
: I only have 3 fish and 1 anemone and 2 shrimp and 1 hitchhiker crab.
:
: I would like to know what type of anemone it is so I can buy the proper
: lighting, and what is your recommendations on lighting for it. Also if it
: looks healthy to you experts I feed it once every 3 days by hand with
: Formula One Frozen, I also feed the fish mysis shrimp and flakes and some of
: this gets stuck to the tentacles that the anemone will eventually eat.
:
: What type of crab is this, he has not bothered anything in the tank at all
: sort of just keeps to himself, the picture with the large hole in the live
: rock is where he hangs out and where I think he was when I purchased the
: rock.
:
: Any comments would be greatly appreciated, I am going to buy another
: shipment of live rock to fill out the rest of the tank. Also my first time
: with a digital camera I got for Christmas so be easy about the horrible
: picture taking :)
:
: http://www.digitalrage.org/tank/index.html
:
: 55gallon
: 80 pounds of Live Rock
: 40 Pounds of Live Sand
: CPR BAK PAK 2
: 1 150w heater
: 1 100w heater
: 1 MaxiJet 1200
: 1 Powerhead 606
:
: 1 110Watt white light in Hood
: 1 80W 50/50 Light in Hood
:
: I am looking to replace my lighting, I got this because I thought it would
: be good for fish only, but when my wife saw the clown and the yellow tail
: damsel both hiding out in this anemone we could not leave the store without
: it. The lights are on digital timer 50/50 come on an hour before the white
: lights, and the white lights go off and hour before the 50/50's. 50/50 run
: for 12 hours the white lite run for 10.
:
:

[Layer3guru]

I believe you are right these are not reef friendly right? Here is a better
picture I caught it coming out of its hole.
http://www.digitalrage.org/tank/MVC027S.JPG

Also caught some pics of a bristtle worm coming out of a abandoned hermit
crab shell.
http://www.digitalrage.org/tank/index.html/

"Boomer" > wrote in message
...
> Anemone BTA
>
> Crab looks like a _Mithrax forceps_Red-Ridged Cling Crab
>
> http://www.nhm.org/guana/bvi-invt/bvi-surv/images/crab-i03/mith-for.htm
>
> --
> Boomer
>
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>
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> "Layer3guru" > wrote in message
> ...
> : These are pics of my 5 month old 55 gallon.
> : I only have 3 fish and 1 anemone and 2 shrimp and 1 hitchhiker crab.
> :
> : I would like to know what type of anemone it is so I can buy the proper
> : lighting, and what is your recommendations on lighting for it. Also if
it
> : looks healthy to you experts I feed it once every 3 days by hand with
> : Formula One Frozen, I also feed the fish mysis shrimp and flakes and
some of
> : this gets stuck to the tentacles that the anemone will eventually eat.
> :
> : What type of crab is this, he has not bothered anything in the tank at
all
> : sort of just keeps to himself, the picture with the large hole in the
live
> : rock is where he hangs out and where I think he was when I purchased the
> : rock.
> :
> : Any comments would be greatly appreciated, I am going to buy another
> : shipment of live rock to fill out the rest of the tank. Also my first
time
> : with a digital camera I got for Christmas so be easy about the horrible
> : picture taking :)
> :
> : http://www.digitalrage.org/tank/index.html
> :
> : 55gallon
> : 80 pounds of Live Rock
> : 40 Pounds of Live Sand
> : CPR BAK PAK 2
> : 1 150w heater
> : 1 100w heater
> : 1 MaxiJet 1200
> : 1 Powerhead 606
> :
> : 1 110Watt white light in Hood
> : 1 80W 50/50 Light in Hood
> :
> : I am looking to replace my lighting, I got this because I thought it
would
> : be good for fish only, but when my wife saw the clown and the yellow
tail
> : damsel both hiding out in this anemone we could not leave the store
without
> : it. The lights are on digital timer 50/50 come on an hour before the
white
> : lights, and the white lights go off and hour before the 50/50's. 50/50
run
> : for 12 hours the white lite run for 10.
> :
> :
>
>