What Anemone to get, and where?

[reefburnaby]

Hi,

Keep in mind that BTAs (rose or the regular brown/green) are not natural hosts to the Ocellaris. There is a remote 1% chance that they will not take it as a host.

But, if you really want a rose BTA, I would try the regular one first. If you can keep it alive or thrive for a least a year, then you can trade it in for the rose.

BTA are the easiest of the anemones to keep because they tend to need less light than the other anemones. The long tentacle is the next easiest, followed by the Sebae, the ritteri, carpet and saddle. The last three are quite hard to keep and I have only read of several people around the world that have kept them for more than 2 years. Unfortunately, the natural host for this clownfish is very hard to keep (carpet). Do avoid the Condylactis anemone...none of the clownfishes have been known or have been seen to take this as a host.

I would recommend the Joyce Wilkerson book on Clownfish. Its a good book if you are planning to breed them.

- Victor.

[ 10 September 2002, 19:18: Message edited by: reefburnaby ]