Anemone?
 

:mrgreen: Happy Friday everyone!! :mrgreen:

I have been throwing around the idea of picking up an anemone for my tank in the future. I have a couple questions for those who are interested in helping.

1. Would an anemone be happy in a 30 gallon tank?
2.What type of anemone would be happy in that size tank? (I quite like the BTAs, but I love anemones in general)

Many thanks in advance for those who have some input!

-Barrett Oliver

I had a small GBTA in my 30g tank. I was lucky he didn't move around too much. You will want to try to isolate him to one area or rock if you can. What lighting do you have?

MikeP has some small GBTA to sell. I recently picked one up (my first nem!) and am so happy with it! Great metallic green coloring!
That's all I have to add as I am a new nem owner myself!

What kind of lighting do you run?

I don't have an anemone but what about the rock flower anemone's? I think they might be a good choice for the smaller tank as I'm pretty sure they are a smaller anemone.

I'm all out of nems now Carmen. We'll have to wait till he splits again. The nem I have seems like it starts to get some size and the next thing you know there's 4 little one's!

Excuse me for answering for you Barrett. He is running a tek 4x24w HOT5. A nem might be do-able higher up in the tank. Your tank is how old now bud?

p.s. How does the the light support look?

Doug.

Don't the Rock Flower Nem's tolerate a variety of lighting? I've been reading up a bit on them and it says they can tolerate a variety of lighting and can handle a little bit lower lighting than other nem's. Does anyone have experience with these because I've been thinking about getting one for my nano.

Nice work Doug, tek 4x24w HOT5 is what I'm working with. The support looks sexy too!

The tank is only about 7 months old though.

Really if its do-able, the most likely candidate would be BTA for sure.

Thanks for the insight everyone, if you have anymore insight I'll be in from the snow all night!!

Barrett

BTA's don't require as much lighting as other nems, so you will be good to have a small one in a 30g, especially if your tank height is under 24inches. And just think, as it splits you can sell off the babies to other hobbiests.

The height of the tank is just over 17inches, so 2feet shouldn't be a problem.
I think for the amount of advice on here that I have directly and indirectly heard, it would be quite easy to give something like that away.
Still snowy ladies and gents, anything further to add?

Many Thanks Too!

BTA sounds good for what you've got - or an RBTA!

RBTA=Rose Bubble Tip Anemone?

If yes, RC had one of those the last time I was in there, they are quite beautiful!

Your lighting is more than adequate for a BTA. I have one in a 75 gal under 4 x 54 watt T5HO and it's doing very well. When I first got it I only had a 2 lamp T5HO fixture. It went form fairly bleached when I got it to a brownish shade and has now become very 'metallic' green.

This certainly reassuring to me.

Does anyone perhaps have any extra care tips for a fellow interested in this new addition?

Just ensure you feed. If you have clownfish that will host it, they usually end up feeding it left over pellet food.

Make sure not to keep your SG lower than 1.024

I have a LTA under a TEK 4 24w T5 and it seems to be thriving. On the bottom, tank 18" water depth. Damn thing LOVES freeze dried Krill