Carpet Anemone question
 

Looking to replace my ever growing Seabea with something smaller. Don't like BTA's because they wonder, so I'm interested in a carpet. Will they host Clown's? Do they usually remain on the sandbed?

Here's a link to anenome / clown matches: http://saltaquarium.about.com/librar...lownschart.htm

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Thats an o.k. site but it doesn't say if they are speaking about fish in the wild or in the aquarium. IMO there's a big difference when it comes to symbiotic organisms.

A carpet will grow just as fast and big as a sebae, if not bigger.. IMO. I haven't owned one, but from all the reading I have done on anemones and clownfish, my understanding is that they will get just as huge just as fast.

I think a pair of Ocellaris would work well in a carpet, no? I could be wrong there.

Hey Danny,

Carpets get pretty large. Growth rate can vary but eventually they'll hit a 24" diameter which is way larger than the max diameter of that sebae. S. haddoni will also eat fish.

BTA's .. IMHO they don't really wander if the conditions they seek are met. Any species of anemone can wander and I wouldn't really say one is more prone to it than another, it's really a case of they're looking for a specific case of current, lighting and substrate (and that they're not hungry, because a hungry anemone might still wander if its current position is otherwise perfect). BTA's look for a crevasse or overhang to hide their pedal disk (i.e., minimal current around the foot, minimal lighting too), but can "reach out" to get their tentacles into current and lighting.

Couldn't have said it better. Nearly all my BTA's stayed put... they may wander a few inches away from the original spot, btu that's it. Provide it with what it likes and your good! (most of the time..)

How much light would you need for a carpet anemone?

My carpet wandered quite a bit (until it wandered in to my tunze stream). They grow quite large and I hear story after story that people have lost large fish to their carpet anemone. They have quite a potent sting!

My clowns host in the white one.

In a nano they could do a lap around the tank and be back close to where they started when you see them in the morning and never know they went for a walk. In my experience they (BTA"s)will eventually wander. I have had some sit still for months and then one day they just decide they are going for a walk. Then they usually seem to either trash some corals or get stuck in a powerhead.:twised: