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Mak
03-28-2002, 09:55 PM
Anybody have one of these? I've had mine for a few months, yesterday I noticed he looked awesome the best I had seen him. Today he kind of dissapeared into his big slime patch (whatever it is) and now he is out a doesn't look to happy. I'm keeping an eye on him. By the way what do you feed yours? Mine sends out his tentacles and gets anything going by him. No direct feedings here but I'am thinking about it! ;)

Mak
03-29-2002, 01:13 AM
In case anybody was curious he's back to looking awesome again :D . Guess he was just doinh some care taking or something :cool: .

ruck'n'reefer
03-29-2002, 03:26 AM
Mine opens up at nite! He only opens up a little during the day. But he does disappear from time to time. I don't feed but he looks healthy.

Is your's buried in the sansbed? Did you remove the cocoon? sp?? What colour is yours? Mine is purplish.

Mak
03-29-2002, 04:52 AM
Hey R'N'R, My guy opens up 80-90% during the day and opens fully at nite. When I put him in my 75g I put him on the SB but he just attched about 1" above on my rock and stayed there for 3 months but he is now in my 20g with the rest of my corals(75 is down thanks to red planaria, gonna re set it up soon). I only found out what he was a couple of weeks ago, the LPS told me it was a tube worm and I bought it for $14 :cool: . I decided to feed him half a Silverside today, I accidentally dropped the Silverside too far from it but a couple tips of its tentacles caught it and pulled it up and ate it(holy crap are their tentacles strong :eek: ). I think I'm going to start feeding him once a week or so. He is a pinkish orangish colour with cool orange flourescent stripes on each of his tentacles. And no I didn't remove his cocoon he just completly went inside it. I couldn't see even a spec of him or even part of a tentacle it looked like he was complety gone :eek: , but then he was there again not looking happy :( , an hour later he was looking awesome :D .

Mak
04-21-2002, 12:12 AM
Tau in addition I have feed my Anenome twice since the original post and he seems to have almost doubled in size, I've given him to half silversides and i'm goin to start feeding him at least once a week. They like Iodine so I dose my tank once a week. Do a search on google.ca for them there is lots of pic's and everything you need to know on them there.

Tau2301
04-21-2002, 12:31 PM
Thanks for the help. I will do the search as suggested, I was just looking for some real life experiances with these creatures. I find tales told are more valuable than reading text book facts.

Biogeek
04-22-2002, 02:26 AM
For what it's worth, "tube anemones" are not even related to anemones, and are actually in the group that contains black corals. I have a detailed description of the biology and care of these guys online here (http://www.reefs.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=034573). If that post doesn't answer your questions about the animal, let me know and I'll try to answer any other questions you have about them.

Rob

Tau2301
04-22-2002, 10:44 PM
Thanks Rob, that was a very good article.

The LFS that I deal with on a regular basis has one that has a flourescent green centre with white tenatcles about 3" to 4" long - very attractive animal.

Since you mention that it should receive fresh/frozen food on a daily basis I will wait until the summer holiday season is over before purchasing this type of anenome.

Question:
You mentioned placing the anenome into a PVC Tube to help secure it's location. How big should this pipe be relative to the size of the anenome?

Thanks for yours and everyone elses help with this question.

Biogeek
04-23-2002, 12:29 AM
Well, the tube "anemones" that I keep (Pachycerianthus)are not nearly as pretty as some of the ones that you find in the pet shops, but I just stuck one of our smallest animals into a bare tank and took some pics for you to get an idea of the size of the tube I'm using.

Side view:
http://biogeek.ucdavis.edu/Cerianthid.jpg

Top view:
http://biogeek.ucdavis.edu/Cerianthid2.jpg

The sand that I've used to fill in around the animal's fiber tube is CaribSea Aragamax (http://www.jlaquatics.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?page=information/caribsea/arag.htm&&cart_id=5343627_223). The animals seem to do best when fed at least every other day with PE Mysis (http://www.mysis.com/) which can be purchased from a number of mail order companies. Like most soft-bodied marine invertebrates, they can withstand reasonably long periods of starvation by digesting themselves and shrinking, but the more regularly they are fed, the happier they will be.

Rob

Samw
09-03-2002, 09:51 PM
Would like to know how everyone's tube anemones are doing especially if they are in tanks with fish. I saw a few recently in a LFS and they were gorgeous. Read that they have very powerful stings but others say that they don't have powerful stings. Anyone kept them with small fish like neon gobies? Any problems?

Mak
09-03-2002, 11:28 PM
Hey Sam,

Mine is still doing great. He is still up high on the back of one of my rocks. I have a couple Perc's, a Chromis and a Bi-colour Blenny in with him and there has been no problems with fish what so ever. I don't think any healthy fish would forget it's sting or stick around long enough to get seriously harmed or eaten. But they do sting other Corals, For example he stung my Open Brain when he went on a growing rampage. However he was next to some polyps in his current tank and didn't sting them for about a month, and then all of a sudden he started stinging them. Also if you have 2 in the tank they will reproduce. HTH

What colors did you see?

[ 03 September 2002, 19:36: Message edited by: MAK ]

Tau2301
09-03-2002, 11:57 PM
Hey, I have all but forgotten about this post.

Just the other day I was hanging around one of the LFS in town wondering what would look good in my tank.

Thanks for the pics Biogeek.

Samw
09-03-2002, 11:58 PM
It was an amazing bright green with a bright yellow center. Kind of like this one except much brighter and more vivid green color.

http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/chekjawa/ria/photos/r290.jpg

I think it was about $30

[ 03 September 2002, 21:03: Message edited by: Sam W ]

Mak
09-04-2002, 12:31 AM
Damn I wish mine was in the DSB.

Sounds like a very nice color (Purple would be nice). I you have a good 8 inches in diameter of free space, go for it. $30 sounds reasonable.

Samw
09-04-2002, 01:08 AM
They also had some yellow and red ones. Its cool to see all the different colors they come in.

colorful tube anemones (http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/chekjawa/ria/text/tubeanem2.htm)

Mak
09-04-2002, 02:03 AM
Here's a sweet pic (http://www.aquaimages.net/monterey/tubeanens.jpg) .

Samw
09-04-2002, 07:18 PM
I went back to the shop today to buy the green one and it was gone!!! I hate it when that happens. The bright yellow one was gone too. They only have 3 purple ones left with green centers and green dots on their purple tentacles. Not bad but I wanted that green one.

Samw
12-07-2002, 08:03 PM
Finally got one. I placed it temporarily in a coke bottleneck. Will have to keep a watch on missing fish now.


http://www.hyperdream.com/~samw/reef/200212/128-2842_IMG.jpg

Mak
12-08-2002, 07:08 AM
LOL :lol: ... you got that at King Ed right!?!... I almost bought that one yesterday :shock: . It is a very nice specimen...enjoy :wink:

Samw
12-08-2002, 07:25 AM
LOL :lol: ... you got that at King Ed right!?!... I almost bought that one yesterday :shock: . It is a very nice specimen...enjoy :wink:

Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. :lol: What did you buy? There were purple ones that you wanted. I wanted to get an orange and a purple but I resisted.

Mak
12-08-2002, 09:27 AM
:lol: What did you buy? There were purple ones that you wanted. I wanted to get an orange and a purple but I resisted.

Unfortunatley I'm all outta room (except for a Purple Gorgonian and a few Ricordia :oops: ) in the 55g which I would have put it in :cry: . If I had the extra room I would have chosen the one you got 8) :shock:... she's a beauty :wink: . I just got a little 6-line, that's all they had on my list :shock: .