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I have a Rose Bubble tip Anemone with a Tomato clown. I have aquascaped the tank because I had left for a vacation and my parents never came to my house as promised to do a water change and some top offs. But they did feed the fish and not the anemone. So the anemone that has perched on a little hole for a year with out moving , but had moved and I guess killed some of my corals including a yellow torch :( , alot of the GSP :), some mushrooms :(, and a bubble :(. Everything was ok except for calcium and the salinity at 1.032 and surprisingly the pH at 8.2:) . Alot died, and the tank is almost barren except for a handful of surviving corals. All the fish are alive and doing well :).

So, By feeding my anemone regularly again. it has not moved for a month :). So here's my question.

What corals can withstand an anemones feet, just in case if it starts crawling again. I know a lot of people had told me to get rid of it, but I like this bastard alot.

And are anyone selling any frags of lps's , I'm looking for some Zoas and some colorful stuff to put in my tank.
 
I have a frag of Dragons Breath zoas and I might be able to make a frag of my Eagle's Eye and my Radioactive Dragon Eye. If you want to know what they look like they are all three on this site...

http://www.coralpedia.com/index.php?module=Gallery2&g2_itemId=15&g2_page=1
 
I have two different frags of the Dragons Breath. I have a frag with two polyps for $7, and a frag with four polyps and four riddler palys for $16. I don't have any frags made of the radioactive dragons eye or the eagles eye but I might be able to make some. I don't have a very big colony of either one so I'd like to grow them out a little bit more before I frag.
 
I was just wondering about this question as well, cause my rbta was moving around alot, I think it finally found the spot it wanted, but it's right next to some zoas, I didn't move the zoas, I was checking if there was any damage being done by either the zoa or rbta, so far they seem to be getting along. The rbta skirted around my hammer coral, and there doesn't seem to be any harm there either.
 
I am sure the demise of the corals in the path of the wandering anemone was due primarily to the anemone's nematocyst laden tentacles; not so much the foot. Of course, in my opinion, should an anemone decide to plant itself right over some zoanthids or something similar, the zoanthids may be out of luck. Though I have a hard time thinking an anemone would just plant itself on another coral due to sweepers, and allelopathy. Either way, I'm not sure if any coral is more or less susceptible to terminal damage from a stinging anemone. I think it all depends on contact time, and I am sure it varies from coral to coral. Most softies tend to be pretty hardy and durable. If the anemone is just scooting by and happens to sting a coral a little, it probably isn't the end of the world. My anemone occasionally grazes a colony of proto-palythoas I have, and I have lost a couple polyps of the palys, at most. If an anemone hunkers down right next to a coral and is constantly barraging it with nematocysts, no matter how durable the coral, I am sure the anemone will win.
Once the anemone becomes settled in, and things become stable again, hopefully the anemone has no reason to wander around again. The best thing to do is be proactive, and not reactive, keep the anemone happy, and keep corals out of it's way.
 
I got my 8" RBTA to stay in the same spot for about 2 months or more. When I first put it in it wandered around for about 3-4 days then settled where I had first put it. I think the reasons I can get it to stay there is because it is right next to the pump head and it liked to be blasted with water, I feed it as much mysis shrimp as it can eat twice a week, and it can reach up to about 1"-2" away from the surface of the tank and get as much light as possible. What types of lights do you have and how many watts are they? How often do you feed it, how much do you feed it, and what do you feed it? Is it aimed at by a power head or the pump head? If you can find the right combination of these factors you'll be able to get it to stay. Also, you might want to consider aiming a power head at it. My 5" used to have huge bubble tips, but it moved to the top middle of the tank. Then it lost it's bubble and now it has tentacles about 7"+ long that are reaching right in front of the filter head. Hope this helps get your anemone to stay put! :)
 
Euphyllia said:
Also, you might want to consider aiming a power head at it.
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I would not recommend doing that. Every anemone specimen is going to be different, and honestly, we cannot possibly know the exact conditions they desire. It is best to let them seek out an area of flow they find appropriate, or ideal.

In the best interest of our Cnidarian friend, I think it would be easiest to let the anemone find it's comfort place on its own accord :)
There are many factors that contribute to where an anemone will settle. Some of these factors are, but not limited to light, and flow. Feeding is also a factor. If an anemone is regularly being fed, and the feedings suddenly cease, the anemone may "panic" a little and begin wandering again. Any sudden change for that matter may push an anemone into a temporary survival mode in which it will either split, or begin wandering around seeking out a more desirable place. Sudden changes can be rapid changes in flow, lighting, salinity, and feeding -these are just examples.
If an anemone is constantly wandering, chances are (but not always) something in your tank is not satisfactory, or up to par.
HTH
 
A_Lee said:
Euphyllia said:
Also, you might want to consider aiming a power head at it.
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I would not recommend doing that.
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I meant like a weak power head. Something just to add a little more flow. I think you should definitely just let it more wherever it wants, but IME feeding them twice a week helps them stay where they are.
 
Anemone is not something that will stay where you put it. It will move to where ever it wants and most likely that it will kill thing that it touch. It's the risk you have to take when keeping anemone. Some people recommend to keep it on an isolated rock but if it doesn't like that spot, you will see a floating anemone someday :) . If you lucky, it will land on another rock. If not, it could go into your overflow box or right into the powerhead.

For me the two important things to keep anemone are stable water condition and good lighting. I recommend good T5 or MH only but some people are successful keeping them under PC lighting. I have seen too many newbies trying to keep them under PC and wondering why they die or blow up after several months LOL :D ..

BTW, all the ones I kept hate direct flow. Indirect/random flow are much better..
 
Apon said:
i have a weird one- my rbta parked itself in front of the vortec....I guess it likes the high flow.
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Your RBTA is normal compared to mine. My three largest RBTAs are right in front of the filter return pump spout and they love it! :)
 
You forgot the water condition part Matthew :) .. My old RBTA was about 8" infront of my Tunze 6000 too. It WASN'T blowing directly into the anemone's body. It was blowing over the top. Yes they like high flow but not directly into the body. That is what I saw when I keep anemone.

In this pic, you can see how much flow it got..
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