I want to add an anemone to my salt water tank... Can you help?

Question

My setup is a 55-gallon saltwater tank, set to about 78-degrees. Current residents include a percula, a cinnamon clown, a few damsels, a coral beauty angel, and a snail and a shrimp. I have a standard hood and would prefer not to add metal halide or other specialized lights, if possible. Can anyone suggest any species of anemone that would work well (colorful would be nice, but not a dealbreaker)? Anything special I should know in terms of care and feeding? Any particular dangers to my current tank setup?

Answer 1

It sounds like your current set up would be fine to add an anemone to. Just be careful with your shrimp. My anemone actually seemed rather agressive towards it, but I was never sure. I had a peppermint shrimp. I have a 55 gallon sw tank, too. Here's what I did:

I bought some live rock, some that was very porous from the local petstore. I also got an anemone. I dont remember the scientific name, but it is also known as a Hawaiin anemone. It ranges in size, with white tentacles with purple tips to them. It has attached itself to my live rock & is thriving.

As for the feeding, I alternate between flakes (which are readily consumed by your damsels) & shrimp brine (which your clown should gobble up). The anemone seems to "pick" the brine out of the water when it floats by. Make sure you have pretty good water flow if you get an anemoe. I added an extra valvue on my current filter to make the current a little stronger.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Many anemones need lots of light (2 to 5 watts per gallon) preferably with some blue spectrum provided by actinic light bulbs or higher temperature metal halide lighting. Entacmaea quadricolor, the purple base or pink tip anemone is considered easy to care for and many different kinds of clownfish will accept the purple base anemone as a host. The Pink Tip Anemone will normally do well in temperatures between 72 and 78 degrees Fahrenheit (23 to 26 degrees Celsius). The pH value should be 8.3 or 8.4, and the specific gravity should be at least 1.023. Various supplements like iodine and trace elements should be regularly replenished. Chopped fish, shrimp, or mussels are the most common foods offered to Pink Tip Anemones but it may not be necessary to feed them at all. If your anemone is gradually decreasing in size it may require feeding as this indicates that it is not getting enough nutrition from it's environment.

Answer 3

if u are a pro then ga ahead but they do become a pain in the neck and aswell as more problems 4 ure fish for example agressiveness begins 2 become a problem and the anemone can eat one of urer small fish if not fed right 2.a good recomendation is the purple tip anemone. they sell comercial foods or u can feed it brine shrimp 2.

Answer 4

i'm now under the effect that with time and attempt you're able to do something; i'm not sure in case you purely have been given the tank or the tank with each and all of the climate; sand, salt, clear out, heater, easy , piece of stay rock approximately 6.ninety 9 somewhat or 6.ninety 9 a pound looking on sort of rock; hydrometer to objective the salt point; attempt equipment to objective for nitrates etc ; de-chlorinating chemical; water evaporates , salt does no longer so once you're making water variations you do no longer upload new salt; small crab/snail to freshen up the sand; protein skimmer; I in basic terms offered 2 clown fish(Nemo) for 12.ninety 9 each and each and damsels 3 for 9.ninety 9 ; it is going to likely be a fee to establish ; in case you prefer it undesirable adequate , provide it a attempt; decrease the variety of fish to 2 ; I surely have a 29 gallon tank and characteristic 4 fish , one million crab and a starfish ; wish this enables ; i admire mine !!

Answer 5

metal halide is the best for them, they have a simbiotic relationship with an algea called a zoanthilia, or something like that.they require light to creat food for themselves.pink tips(hatians)can however be sustained without the metal halides.spot feed them about once a week.they are not a normal clownfish sybiotic anenome however and may eat any unwary fish that choose to approach them.

Answer 6

None would work You need special lights or they will die been there done that. Do a little reading on anemones you will see what I mean.

Answer 7

i woudlnt recommend them they are a pain to deal with

Answer 8

go to your salt water fish dealer and ask them, they are far smarter than we are.

Answer 9

http://www.clownfish.org/