[a4twenty]

i'm not sure what discrepancy you mean?


IMO just about anything left in its natural environment will out live one in captivity, even if all conditions were equal but they aren't and then there is the human factor, power outages, mistakes, inexperience, shipping..........


i wouldn't want to guess the percentage of anemones captured to the ones that make it six months in captivity.


just because people on the forums are talking about their successes doesn't mean there aren't others keeping quiet about their losses.


i did a lot more reading after getting my S. gigantea, about how many don't make it and i am not sure i would get another if this one didn't make it. there are some species that are just best left in the ocean and others that will prosper and reproduce in the average tank.