thank you for the great info dkone. really do appreciate it. =] =]
yea, with the anemone, i read that when you first introduce it to a tank, to turn off any form of intake or currents until it plants its foot. so that it doesnt get sucked up and injured...i was smart to do it this time. lol in my smaller tank, i had an anemone and it got sucked into the powerhead..it survived for about 2 days after that and then died. =(
this one is much bigger than the last one, by like 7times..lol this one planted its foot right away when i set it in there. and moved a little bit, but then later on i move dhim to where he is now..he hasnt really moved that spot since.... i have a good current flowing around him. i have the return pipe flowing from one direction and then the powerhead aimed down towards it. and its on the second highest rock in my tank, so that hes pretty well close to the light.
heres a full tank shot
and one of my clown infront of it, though it was actually pretty far from it...lol i hope this brings them out of the corner...
also, i already fed the anemone a silverside head....im guessing he ate it since its nowhere to be found...it is pretty interesting how it gobbled it up so fast lol it was already gone when it wrapped its tentacles around it...lol
my next project for this tank is to start building up my copepod colony. i am going to either get a bag of 200 copes or a bunch of caulerpa that has about 200 copepods colonized in it. that one is a little bit more expensive, considering it comes with the caulerpa. i am also going to finally get a light for my sump. so that i can put them in there instead of in my display tank...even though it would probably be safer to put them in my tank, since i dont have a fuge. idk. ill figure something out.....lol maybe i could even do it in my overflow box? any ideas?
Your anemone will like some flow but I wouldn't aim a powerhead right at it. Keeping him up towards the light is a good thing and anemone's do enjoy light ! Good to hear he's eating silversides. Unless you want a caulerpa display tank (see other recent threads for the end result of caulerpa take-over of your display) then I wouldn't put it in your display tank. In the sump sounds like a wise idea with a light.
yea i dont want a takeover in my tank..lol..i thought i would have one of chaeto in my display, but it ended up disinegrating ad shrinking down to about a quarter of the size that i got it... =\
as for the anemone, i have a poweread aimed down towards it, but its not strong enough to blow directly onto him....like the air bubbles start floating back up at about 4 inches above him....so i dont know think much direct flow is actually hitting him.... he seems happy, even at night...hes got his tentacles out nice and far and all...lol
They can be very sensitive to acclimitisation and need to be acclimitised slowly, very slowy, when first introduced to your tank. A sudden salinity change, temperature change all can cause many stars and other inverts to perish soon after introduction. However, once acclimitised, those stars are pretty bullet proof !!! Sounds like your new mini-Monster Corral Banded could sense the death of the Brittle Star approaching and was heading in for a feeding!
>>> like the air bubbles start floating back up at about 4 inches above him
You should not have any air bubbles coming from your powerhead(s), if you are using an airline/venturi type device on your power head I would suggest removing it. imho air-bubbles (moreso micro-bubbles), whilst they can be pretty, are not required and in some cases can actually be detrimental in a reef tank depending on your fish/livestock you are keeping. I am sure there are many views on this particular topic, this being my opinion and should not be taken as "gospel".
so, i think my nudibranch layed eggs on my overflow box..theres a spiral on the box....and i know my nudibranch was there yesterday, and i woke up and my gf saw the spiral this morning in that spot that it was in.. ill post a pic in a sec.
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Sorry to hear about the star. The pics you post look good. Wish my photos turned out so well.
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I don't know if you plan on getting the colony of copepods in algea or not from the LFS. If you order this on-line, with it being cold this time of year, make sure they include a heat pack for shipping. If not, the colony will die in transit. If you could get it locally, I'd do it. Your chances of a higher survival rate will be increased dramatically. Just my 2 cents.
yea. they include a heatpack in with the packaging.... i was reading the packing procedure on their website. im going to order it from reefscavengers.com, if anyone has heard of them.
so, before i start saving up for a better lighting system, lets ask a question about my lighting...which i probably know the answer already....but here it is...since you are all more knowledgeable than i amwhen it comes to this...
my current lighting setup isssss
2 Current Satellites 20" , 40 watts , 10,000k each....
so is that 80w of 10000k? and is that nearly enough to keep the anemone going for some time? i know that some people are going to say "i would recommending you get mh as soon as possible, but thats my opinion" lol
i been feeding it every day so far and he quickly devours whatever i give him, silversides, bay scallops, and i want to try seaweed just to see if he will eat the greens....cause that would be a god source for nutrients and all. im sure..
Are those lights arranged side by side or front to back? Either way, I don't think that 2x40 lights is nearly enough for this species. Pink Tip Anemone says "The Pink Tip Anemone requires strong light and should never be purchased if a good lighting system is not in place." Most sources say that clownfish do not usually host this anemone. I had my bubble tip under 2x65 watt and it did fine but it is the species that is often cited as needing a more moderate amount of light.
I have my light fixtures going front to back, but side by side of eachother... (see pictures..lol) the anemone is only halfway down my tank...
and i know that clownfishes dont host tis kind of anemone...i just wanted it to have one...i wasnt really concerned if the clowns hosted or not.....it got them out of the corner though...lol i think the powerhead's bubbles were scaring them, cause once i pulled out the airline from it, they started to utilize the other 64 gallons of my tank...lol
and anyone familiar with raising nudibranch ...fry? lol i wanna try to keep em alive...maybe trade em in at the lfs for some snails or a couple o' crabs....=]
so i looked in my tank this morning...its starting to turn purple...but the purple is a deep purple...its growing in blotches on my rock...and on my glass theres a few streaks of it..... is that coralline algae? does that stuff grow in streaks on glass? i been usin purple-up and if it as doing what its been doing, then thats good. if you look at the nudibranch spiral, you can see one of the red streaks next to it, what im talking about....i just want to make sure that im not getting a cyano outbreak.....i had some on my tank glass the other day, and i magfloated it off....it scratched off...i know if it was cyano then it would peel off...and i was trying to take it off of one of the rocks with tweezers and it didnt even scratch off of there...so im guessing it is just a deep purple colored of coralline?
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