Tube Anemone in a coco shell
 

Hi folks,
I recently purchased a tube anemone(never had one before) when I got home I opened the bag and realized that the anemone is tubeless or "naked" I had him on my sand bed but since is naked I didn't want to bury him to prevent damage. but when i can see that the flow is blowing him from point a to point b... while I was staring at it, it reminded me of my coco worm that I used to have. then it came to my mind the idea of why if I insert him into my dead coco worms shell? so I did... its been there for 4 days, eating mysis and clam. just wondering if anyone done it or seen it off sandbed before? I did lots of reading and its saying that it will do better on sandbed.

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...pswlitribq.jpg

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they make their own cocoon out of detritus.if it doesn't like where it is it will move itself

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i have some pictures of my t a swimming in the water collumn.i'll look them up and try to post

Man that looks rly cool. Don't remove him lol

I wont, unless it moves by itself :)

That's an awesome picture

thanks, it was shot at A=2.0 S=500th ISO=1000 on a 35mm Sigma Art Lens with my Nikon 3Ds

Does that count as squatting? Picture of the month? lol.

I have three, two large and one small, I've moved them around a lot even buried them in the sand completely, they will move within the sand bed and extend as much as they require according to the flow etc, best to leave them partially submerged in the sand bed and let them do what they do, my small one doesn't extend much at all but the two large ones extend approx 3 inches out of the sand bed. The coloured tentacles on the large ones are approx 4 to 5 " with a 1' diameter tube, the small one has 2" to 3" tentacles with 1/2" diameter tube, blah blah blah at the end of the day they are very hardy and will do their own thing. LOL

Love the look of these. I think my flow may be a bit much for them though. :(

agreed this nem is definitely not for a SPS dominant tank unless you have a HUGE setup.. I had to swab my MJ 1200 back to 600 for my return (29 Biocube) and had to use a light dimmer mod on my Jebao RW4 to cut down the flow. I just love the color neon green pink and green combo. because of my tank size I had to buy the smallest guy from the store. hopefully he will stay small :) he has long tentacles, therefore I have to kinda place him to the corner and make sure the flow is blowing the tentacles towards the glass so it doesn't sting any of my fish and coral.

in my experience they grow pretty fast and stung just about everything that went near it lol. I had a graveyard of dead snails around it so i decided to trade it. Prob still my all time favourite sea creature tho if it didnt try to kill everything.

I have Jason's old tube nem it's huge also 2 small ones mine do fine in the sps-Lps tank with lots of flow right at them.

hahaha... another reason I have him above the sand is because my spikefin goby is pretty dumb and my bluespot jawfish is blowing sand everywhere. I might have to get an bigger coco skeleton pretty soon.

IMO I just dont like the look of them when they are blown.

Nice camera. :biggrin:

That's awesome!!

I'll vote on that for the POTM! Awesome pic Sean.

haha thanks "Apo"

Wth is happening! The head or the "crown" went inside the tube after feeding. Is this normal? Now it looks like a penis head.http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...psrhk00bx0.jpg

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yup fairly normal.it will pop out in a while and regurgitate uneaten food