Stupid GBTA

danny zubot · #1 04-04-2007, 10:42 PM

I'm metaphoricaly wondering what a 10' anemone is doing in a 20 gallon tank anyway? The tank sounds a bit small to me.....metaphoricaly of course.

Kronk · #2 04-05-2007, 12:25 AM

Yah, thing with anemones is they grow... thats why i was thinking of selling it ...seems that its the least bit concerned with getting about half of its tentacles shortened its plump and eating. The one reason i havent sold it yet is because the clowns are hosting it and i would really like to keep them, but without the nem i think they would get stressed

justinl · #3 04-05-2007, 01:04 AM

clowns are fully capable of living without a host. it just makes for cooler pics and when showing off to friends if the clown is half inside the nem. another option is a surrogate host. Might want to look into that.

edit: metaphorically speaking of course.

Kronk · #4 04-06-2007, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by justinl

clowns are fully capable of living without a host. it just makes for cooler pics and when showing off to friends if the clown is half inside the nem. another option is a surrogate host. Might want to look into that.

edit: metaphorically speaking of course.

what would a surrogate host be?

justinl · #5 04-06-2007, 03:20 AM

a surrogate host is just another coral that the clown chooses to host. what would be a good choice? well according to GARF, clowns are not picky and will pick a variety of stuff to host like shrooms, Brain Corals, Elegance Corals, Xenia, etc... but the best surrogate host by far is sacophytons (aka: Toadstool or Gold Crown or leather coral)

http://www.garf.org/39/fish/pict.html

Kronk · #6 04-06-2007, 04:26 AM

thanks for the link, that clownfish looks IDENTICAL to mine

demon666 · #7 04-06-2007, 05:34 AM

dont forget about frogger

Snappy · #8 04-06-2007, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by danny zubot

I'm metaphoricaly wondering what a 10' anemone is doing in a 20 gallon tank anyway? The tank sounds a bit small to me.....metaphoricaly of course.

Please don't confuse me with the "reef police" because I believe we keep animals for our pleasure not theirs, but nanos are meant to keep small stuff in.

On another note I had a clown that hosted with my wall "ancher" hammer and there was no harm done. If they choose to host with an open brain they do a lot of damage to the coral.

Kronk · #9 04-06-2007, 04:38 PM

WOW i didnt notice before but your absolutely right a 10ft anemone has no right being in a 20g tank, thankfully mine is only 10"... all kididng aside when i got the nem it was much smaller it has grown very rapidly because i do not starve it to keep it small like many people in the hobby do. I am upgrading to a larger tank but it is not suffering in the small tank... if the water quality is perfect and it doesnt move often then what is the difference betweeen a 20g and a 200g its not like it can see how small its tank is ???

Snappy · #10 04-06-2007, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Kronk

WOW i didnt notice before but your absolutely right a 10ft anemone has no right being in a 20g tank, thankfully mine is only 10"... all kididng aside when i got the nem it was much smaller it has grown very rapidly because i do not starve it to keep it small like many people in the hobby do. I am upgrading to a larger tank but it is not suffering in the small tank... if the water quality is perfect and it doesnt move often then what is the difference betweeen a 20g and a 200g its not like it can see how small its tank is ???

I wondered how you squeezed that 10 footer in a 20.

You stated that it moves every few months and straight into a powerhead. There isn't much difference to the anenome other than when in a 200 it can move several feet without getting in trouble and in a 20 it can get into trouble by only moving inches from where it was. I was only giving a matter of fact statement and not trying to be like it probably sounds.