Anemone Build Thread

[bradleym]

My smaller gigs like frozen mysis. Maybe vary up your feeding selection a bit--by adding foods like sush-grade tuna and/or salmon, as well as shrimp without additives like STPP--to get it to grow bigger, and faster.

I am feeding tuna, scallops, and mysis, one of the three about once a week.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Nice tank!

 

[bradleym]

Nice tank!

Thank you!

 

[bradleym]

Let's see... two weeks ago I moved my maxi mini to the sump because it was doing poorly. Last week I changed my carbon because it AND my Riterri were looking rough. Today they'ne both been improving so I decided to make attempt number 2 for my Riterri on a rock shelf. The shelf is about 2 inches higher now, and both flow and light are slightly stronger than last time. Here's hoping it likes it!

 

[D-Nak]

Just make sure that the mag can't walk to the back of the rock and then up the wall, because if it can, it will!

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

What happened to your Ritteri?

 

[bradleym]

What happened to your Ritteri?

It took a long walk over to the front left wall. It stayed there for a long time, but I can tell it wasn’t good for it because it's been slowly shrinking for a the last few months. It's looking much better now, just two days on the rock, so I really hope it stays this time.

 

[bradleym]

I had a really good experience with Aqua SD this week, and picked up a second LTA, 2 waratahs, and something called a "strawberry anemone" which I've never seen for sale before. This thread shows my new additions pretty nicely:

Aqua SD Order Appreciation Post

I don't usually take the time to do this, but I had such a stellar experience with @AquaSD this week, I just had to. I was looking at their site, and I saw a "strawberry anemone", which I decided I needed to buy. I love anemones, especially unusual ones, so thois was a pretty neat opportunity...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[michealprater]

Great tank. I unfortunately did not have the same luck mixing Chicago Sunburst with ultras and rainbows. Mine just disappeared one day.

 

[CasperOe]

Oh will be following this one for sure! I am setting up an anemone tank as we speak- here's the process so far!

Thanks for bringing us along on your journey!

 

[bradleym]

Coming back here to carry on, although I've had a rough couple of weeks...

My magnifica continued to decline. As did a couple BTAs. As did several corals. I did numerous water changes, fed more, fed less, etc. But I lost them all, over a period of a few weeks. I've been really upset about it, which is why I haven't updated this thread in forever. In the end, I learned it was a combination of low nutrients and low pH. I had removed my protein skimmer a long time ago, and recently disconnected my frag tank to treat an algae outbreak. The loss of those two water circulation systems led to an average pH of 7.8, which I hadn't been checking.

After things stopped dying, I remodeled the rockwork, removed some of the RBTAs, and basically got a fresh start.

I am also still determined to keep magnificas, and, on the off chance I am dealing with too much allelopathy, I am starting up a second tank for that express purpose.

All told, it hasn't been all bad. I moved my Gigantea to the display. The clowns immediately took to it, but fortunately they have been gentle.

And my LTA has been doing fantastically, despite being hidden in a corner where I can't see it too well.

I'm hoping to start doing updates more frequently again. Here's hoping things are headed up from here. And I think I'll be the proud new owner of Colorado Sunburst soon, so that'll be a nice addition, assuming it plays well with my RBTAs and my Chicago.

 

[Amstar]

Nice tank and thanks for taking us through your ride. A lot of good info and learning from your trials and movements of anemones. It’s been helpful to me

How is your orange waratah doing? I thought they were more colder water (maybe I misread that somewhere?)

 

[bradleym]

Nice tank and thanks for taking us through your ride. A lot of good info and learning from your trials and movements of anemones. It’s been helpful to me

How is your orange waratah doing? I thought they were more colder water (maybe I misread that somewhere?)

Oh yeah! I have 3 cold water nems, still kicking. They're in a basket so I can make sure they get fed since they're NPS. I'm running the tank at 77 Fahrenheit and they seem to be handling it well. I'll take a picture soon and post it.

 

[Amstar]

That is interesting and good to hear. I purposely didn’t bid on them in auction (maybe could have been you and me duking it out if I did lol).

What do you feed them?

 

[bradleym]

That is interesting and good to hear. I purposely didn’t bid on them in auction (maybe could have been you and me duking it out if I did lol).

What do you feed them?

I feed all my nems shredded tuna and scallops. Sometimes mysis. It seems to work pretty well.

 

[bradleym]

Nice tank and thanks for taking us through your ride. A lot of good info and learning from your trials and movements of anemones. It’s been helpful to me

How is your orange waratah doing? I thought they were more colder water (maybe I misread that somewhere?)

Here's a picture I just took today. It's tricky to get them all open at the same time because, being non-photosynthetic, they don't open just because the light is on.

 

[Amstar]

Very nice and very cool. Very tempting to try one out in my tank.