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![]() 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. |
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