Frustrated with anemone (1 Viewer)

[Mtaswt]

anyone ever try anything like this? see pics--fourth post down

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1947916

 

[soymilk]

Hey Matt,

I personally think you just have to let the anemone find a place it likes. If it's moving around, then it's not happy. Doubt check all your water parameters and cross your fingers.

Even if you build that for it, theres a good chance it'll still want to move around.

 

[Slayer311]

What kind of anemone is it?

 

[Mtaswt]

all parameters ae perfect....well nitrates may be 10. What makes me mad (not really) but it stays in a spot for 2-3 days and then moves to another spot for 2-3 days. Sometimes for a week. I'm just worried it is going to park it on a coral for a sure death

I'm going to try it just to see if it will work. I really don't want to get rid of it.
It's a RBTA

 

[Slayer311]

Huh, we have three RBTAs in our tank and none of them ever move... We had a ritteri anemone that would move consantly, until it found the power head and got chopped into oblivion.

 

[Llama]

I doubt the nem likes the plastic tube more than a nice grippy rock to hold onto.

 

[majikmike9999]

i would be interested to see what happens i have a huge carpet in mine that goes wherever it wants you might also look at the idea of a flower pot full of sand i have seen this

 

[JTR0510]

When i first got my rbta it moved around for awhile. As soon as it found its place. it has stayed there ever since. how many do you feed it a week? do you have a clown hosting it?

 

[Mtaswt]

My clowns love their flower pot, but when the anenome is still they hangout with it. About the same in feeding it......when it's still it will eat small silversides and mysis? So I guess he's just a hobo?

 

[Tnconcept]

See if that would idea works! Nemo gotta have his home....lol

 

[HorseyStripe]

not that i'm a guru of experience, or a wealth of information...but here goes my shot...

from the BTA's i've seen in other peoples tanks, and the ones i've got in mine, they like a spot where they can attatch and then extend INTO flow...

i wish i'd taken pictures when my GBTA was looking for a spot, like, what i deemed the "step, by step" process...i placed my RBTA in a situation where he had similar opportunities to the GBTA's final resting spot and he did just as i'd expected...

i don't know, i may have just been lucky

See if that would idea works! Nemo gotta have his home....lol

f'n nemo needs to get his !@#$!@ in the #Q!#$%^#$^ anemone!...mine just hover around it like they're at a concert...


actually as i post this the orange occi is putting his nose up to it.....weirdo....JUST GO IN....GO TO YOUR HOME!!!!!

 

[Mtaswt]

well hopefully this is a new home he can call his own.......permanately!

 

[Tnconcept]

looks good so far.

 

[RGH69]

What kind of clowns do you have? My maroon clown was constantly pushing at the foot until the nem found a place where he could place the foot deep into a rock crevice. He has stayed there since. I suppose that is why an anemone would like a short piece of pipe.

 

[Mtaswt]

I have a pair of onyx clowns

 

[angel4]

RBTA

I have a RBTA for about 9 months in a 6ft long 125G.
It started on the left side of my tank, moved around a bit for a month, found a place where it stayed for 2, 3 months.
Something changed and it did not like it so it moved to the middle, did not stay in 1 place for but a few days.
It then moved to the right side and has been there for the past 3 months.

In the process, it had killed several of my corals.

The other comment about placement is right. RBTA likes a place where its feet are hidden away from flow but it likes to extend into flow a bit.