Reefmaster, of course that depends on what you mean by long term... one year or ten years? The technology to keep anemones hasn't even been around for ten years, really. I believe that given a stable environment and a healthy start, an anemone would live forever, even in captivity. I think if there's any reason an anemone dies after it's been in captivity for, say, five years, it's because of an external factor, ie. the owner moved the tank, changed something, had a power-outage, etc.
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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