i still havent decided exactly which anenomes i want. but i have plenty of time to further research and make my choice.

thanks a lot for all the help.

and beverly, if you could, id love to see those videos :D

IMO , you should start with something hardy. Like a BTA. If you succeed and can keep it long-term.. then advance to a harder to keep anemone. Just a suggestion, may save you some money and headaches. I know that once you start getting into carpets, sebaes, and magnificas.. things get a bit more tricky. So make sure you read up. Anemones are great!! But to keep one requires quite a bit, and your research and preparation will pay off big time.

I would go with a long tentacle over a BTA if you have halides, because they will stay in the sand and not move all over your rockwork knocking down corals and burning them.

But second to a long tentacle, I recommend a BTA as well.

i was looking at both today in a store. i like both types...guess i just have to really read up before i make any kind of decision.

with this marine tank im treating it much differently than my freshwater tanks. with my freshwater tanks i was too much of an impulse buyer, "oh...ive been looking for one of those FOREVER!! better get it now...." lol

its safe to say i learned my lesson, and havent bought fish in around a year. actually i just cleared out well over half of my fish.lol

im down to a small tank of africans and my flowerhorn.lol

Don't know why, but video download times seem to be longer than usual, so please be patient. You might want to right click on them, save them to your desktop, then play them.

One of the more recent GBTA videos...

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/v-gbta-ja-ap-06.wmv
January 17 to April 25, 2006
(320 x 240 pixels, 10.5 MB, 2:21 minutes)

Video of the RBTA being fed...

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/v-rbta-f...s-ja-21-06.wmv
January 21, 2006
(320 x 240 pixels, 5.7 MB, 1:28 minutes)

Gads, two BTAs sure look small back then compared to how they look today. Should make a new vid of each of them some day soon to show the difference in size.

For all my reef videos....

http://www.lostmymarblz.com/videos.htm