Anemone Selection

[Miguel]

Greetings,

I have a 55 gal tank with 3x Occelaris clownship.
I'm looking to add a anemone to the tank which I'd like to have hosting the
clowns.
The H. Magnifica looks a nice one but heard it is quite a difficult anemone
to maintain in the tank.

Any comments / suggestions appreciated.

Thanx
Miguel

[Microbot]

Got to get me one of those Clownships. hehee

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"Miguel" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings,
>
> I have a 55 gal tank with 3x Occelaris clownship.
> I'm looking to add a anemone to the tank which I'd like to have hosting
the
> clowns.
> The H. Magnifica looks a nice one but heard it is quite a difficult
anemone
> to maintain in the tank.
>
> Any comments / suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thanx
> Miguel
>
>

[reefman MC]

Most carpets will get too big for a 55. Plus they sting anything that
touches them even their keeper. They also require lots of light. I love
them and when I upgrade one day I'm getting one, but the tank will be
somewhere between 250-300 gallons. You might want to go with a BTA.
Ocellaris clowns do not naturally go in them, but they should go in it
anyway because it's better than nothing.


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[Marc Levenson]

Tell that to my False Percula. It was in the BTA in less than 6 hours, and tossed out my
True Percula that had lived in it for almost 2 years!

Btw, they share it now, but I was amazed at how quickly that ocellaris jumped right in. It
was only 6 months old.

Marc


reefman MC wrote:

> Most carpets will get too big for a 55. Plus they sting anything that
> touches them even their keeper. They also require lots of light. I love
> them and when I upgrade one day I'm getting one, but the tank will be
> somewhere between 250-300 gallons. You might want to go with a BTA.
> Ocellaris clowns do not naturally go in them, but they should go in it
> anyway because it's better than nothing.
>
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[Microbot]

My Ocellaris thinks one of my Soft Corals is an Anemone, he must get upset when he brushes against it and it retracts leaving nothing to hide in. lol

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"Marc Levenson" > wrote in message ...
Tell that to my False Percula. It was in the BTA in less than 6 hours, and tossed out my True Percula that had lived in it for almost 2 years!

Btw, they share it now, but I was amazed at how quickly that ocellaris jumped right in. It was only 6 months old.

Marc

reefman MC wrote:

Most carpets will get too big for a 55. Plus they sting anything that
touches them even their keeper. They also require lots of light. I love
them and when I upgrade one day I'm getting one, but the tank will be
somewhere between 250-300 gallons. You might want to go with a BTA.
Ocellaris clowns do not naturally go in them, but they should go in it
anyway because it's better than nothing.
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[Rod]

>Most carpets will get too big for a 55.

I agree, but a gigantae will usually only get to be about 16-20" across... Too
big for a 55, but an 18" tank would likely do fine.

>Plus they sting anything that
>touches them even their keeper.
S. gigantae lack the stinging ability.. they are VERY sticky though.


>They also require lots of light.
Yep, lots!

>I love
>them and when I upgrade one day I'm getting one, but the tank will be
>somewhere between 250-300 gallons. You might want to go with a BTA.
>Ocellaris clowns do not naturally go in them, but they should go in it
>anyway because it's better than nothing.
>
I agree, my onyx perc babies are actually feeding RBTA at 3 monts of age, and
just yesterday, I released about 300 fri that were 30 days old.. most of them
went right into the GBTAs that were in the tank... Way Cool!
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[Tom]

I had a percula with an anenome, and it spent most of it's time in it.
Unfortuanatly the clown died, I bought another percula, and it never
went near the anenome. After awhile( about a year) the anenome died,
I bought the same one again, and the clown sitll will not go near it.
Why wouldn't a clown go near it. btw, it's a bubble anenome, not sure
the full name.

[Microbot]

Sometimes they just don't..
My first Ocellaris didn't start pretending the Coral was a Anemone until the
second Ocellaris was put into the Tank, the second one did it right froom
the start.
And now they both share the Coral.......

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"Tom" > wrote in message
om...
> I had a percula with an anenome, and it spent most of it's time in it.
> Unfortuanatly the clown died, I bought another percula, and it never
> went near the anenome. After awhile( about a year) the anenome died,
> I bought the same one again, and the clown sitll will not go near it.
> Why wouldn't a clown go near it. btw, it's a bubble anenome, not sure
> the full name.

[Don Geddis]

(Tom) wrote on 27 Apr 2004 07:0:
> I bought another percula, and it never went near the anenome. After
> awhile( about a year) the anenome died, I bought the same one again, and
> the clown sitll will not go near it. Why wouldn't a clown go near it. btw,
> it's a bubble anenome

In the wild, different species of clowns naturally host only in very specific
species of anemones. The wild behavior is _not_ any random clown with any
random anemone.

In captivity, it is sometimes observed that some clown species will host with
a wider variety of anemones if they don't have a choice. Some clowns even
host with anemone-like corals that aren't even anemones at all.

But all that is non-natural behavior. The more surprising question is why
_would_ a clown go to a non-natural host, not "why wouldn't it".

> not sure the full name.

There aren't that many species of anemones that ever host any clowns.
The common bubble anemone is "Entacmaea quadricolor". Usually they're green
or brown. Some rare (much more expensive) morphs can be pink or red, and are
often known as "rose anemones". It's all the same species.

The common clownfish Percula, and the false Percula (= Ocellaris), do _not_
host in bubble-tip anemones in the wild. Kind of ironic, given that the
Percula/Ocellaris are the most common clowns in the aquaria trade, and
bubble-tips are the most common anemones in the trade. But those pairs don't
go together in the wild.

That said, many people have found that Percula/Ocellaris do sometimes host in
bubble-tip anemones in captivity. But just as many people found that theirs
never did. I had four Ocellaris (two wild, two captive-raised) and three
different bubble-tips (green, brown, and rose) for about six months, and the
clowns never showed the slightest interest in my anemones.

-- Don
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[Miguel]

So your suggestion is the "Entacmaea quadricolor" to use the scientific
name?


reefman MC > wrote in message
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>
> Most carpets will get too big for a 55. Plus they sting anything that
> touches them even their keeper. They also require lots of light. I love
> them and when I upgrade one day I'm getting one, but the tank will be
> somewhere between 250-300 gallons. You might want to go with a BTA.
> Ocellaris clowns do not naturally go in them, but they should go in it
> anyway because it's better than nothing.
>
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[Von Fourche]

"reefman MC" > wrote in message
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>
> Most carpets will get too big for a 55. Plus they sting anything that
> touches them even their keeper. They also require lots of light. I love
> them and when I upgrade one day I'm getting one, but the tank will be
> somewhere between 250-300 gallons. You might want to go with a BTA.
> Ocellaris clowns do not naturally go in them, but they should go in it
> anyway because it's better than nothing.



When you say "lots of light", do you mean metal halide lights? Or can high
wattage fluorescents do?

[tegu01]

what about a malu we were told they were difficult to keep but ours has
grown two fold and divided. a pair of clarkies live in it:p


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