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

tube anenome
 

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

tube anenome
 

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. :(