These anemones are OFFICIALLY way too big (1 Viewer)

[Drew Havard]

Bought a single nem on dfwmas. After the move it split in to three pieces, the biggest of which was about 5-6 inches across, and now, well....


[video=youtube;m2_BMY9F23E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2_BMY9F23E&feature=youtu.be[/video]


Forgive the quality, it was filmed on an ancient cell phone. I sold the smallest of the three splits shortly after it divided. These are *MOSTLY* spread out, but if they really relax they get a bigger.


My uncle has been watching the tank, and has only been doing water changes about every 6 weeks at 10% (!!!) for about a year. The anemones sure don't seem to mind, and in fact are thriving. I'll be taking one of these guys and the maroon clowns down with me to Houston but just wanted to share how an anemone I got locally was doing. This is a 90 gallon aquarium by the way, so those anemones are a good 18" to 24" across.

 

[Motoristx]

I like how the Maroon CF swims in, and disappears for a while, then comes out again right at the end. I love Maroons!

 

[Lord Spice]

Nice anemone tank !

 

[Jaybird]

Wow! I hope mine gets this big someday

 

[Jamie]

Beautiful!

 

[Drew Havard]

Wow! I hope mine gets this big someday

I've found the key being a bit of target feeding with some sections of Fish, and of course strong lighting. These have about 50w of concentrated LED light on each of them and that seems to be doing the trick without creating a big algae bloom. Large water volumes seem to be a must, any time there is a small swing in salinity the anemones are the first thing to let me know as they will shrink/grow and do an internal water change.