Anenome Question

J Feez · #1 01-25-2006, 06:46 PM

So I've officially taken the plunge into the reef keeping hobby

. I bought myself a small sebae anenome and two little tank raised false percula clowns to go with it on monday.

My question is, is there such a thing as too much water flow? I've placed my anenome at the top of my live rock (kind of goes up in a pyramid shape) and it's sitting almost directly under the flow from my hang off the back filter. It doesn't look like my clowns are having trouble getting to the anenome, but I want to make sure that this isn't just going to stress the anenome out along with the clownfish.

Originally I had the anenome off to one side of the tank and it looked like it was a little unhappy (it's tenticles weren't fully extended). I figured it probably wasn't getting enough light which is why I moved it to the top of my LR.

Anyways I'm rambling now. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

J Feez · #2 01-26-2006, 05:12 AM

Anybody?

deep6er · #3 01-26-2006, 05:48 AM

im not a pro but from what i know they can move around the tank till they like a spot. and well it found its own home..

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #4 01-26-2006, 06:35 AM

No matter where you or anybody else thinks is best, the anemone will move to where it wants to be. Sometimes its right in front or right on top, where you can enjoy them. Other times they will be a PITA & lodge themself in the back where you can't see it. Some seem to like flow, others like calmer waters. Sorry, anemones don't seem to read from the same page, so there's no way to really tell where it will finally end up or be happy.

Anthony

danny zubot · #5 01-26-2006, 02:34 PM

In another thread a while back I found out that Sebae's usually dwell in the sand. They typically don't extend their foot into the rockwork because their foot is much larger and less sticky than other anemone's that prefer to reside on rocks, like BTA's. Sebae's rely on their disk more for stability, so high flow might not be desirable. Ultimately it will move to where is feels most comfortable in your tank.

If it helps, I bought my sebae about 3 months ago and placed it in the sand where the rocks form a kind of bowl around it, it has stayed in that very spot ever since. There isn't exactly a tonne of light where it is, so I feed it a bit of mysis once or twice a week. It took about a week for my clowns to make their home in it. Their tenticles are quite sticky so it must have taken some getting used to for them.

J Feez · #6 01-26-2006, 06:39 PM

You reminded me of my next question. I was just curious what you feed a sebae anenome? I see you are feeding it mysis. How do you feed them?

OCDP · #7 01-26-2006, 06:46 PM

Joel,

You can feed your anemone a variety of foods (meaty foods) . You can feed him silversides, shrimp, mysis, brine, etc.. (you can catch my drift) What I usually do is:

In a container (that you use for feeding) put some tank water with some food (thawed) in it. Then take a turkey baster and suck the food up, turn off all your pumps (dont forget to turn them back on) And slowly blow the food onto it's tentacles. It will go from there... You don't need to feed it every day also as a note.. maybe once or twice a week should be sufficient.

HTH,

danny zubot · #8 01-26-2006, 06:58 PM

Quote:

dethawed

??? -double negative, this means it's still frozen!

OCDP · #9 01-26-2006, 07:07 PM

Oops... like we all didn't know what I meant anyways, eh

Beverly · #10 01-26-2006, 09:38 PM

Short video on how we feed PE mysis to our RBTA....

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/v-rbta-feeding-mysis.wmv
(320 x 240 pixels, 5.7 MB, 1:28 minutes)