Anemone Lovers Thread!

[dvgyfresh]

Hard to grasp how big they are, but I can tell it’s huge

 

[OrionN]

Hard to grasp how big they are, but I can tell it’s huge

The clown fish in the Magnifica is a normal female Percula, about 2 inches. The Mag is about 14-16 inches

 

[World Citizen]

This is my anemone under white light. About 10000K light. One Magnifica and two Gigantea anemones.

I always love your pics. I would love to point my cam at your tank. Its not often I see it so bright. Very cool @OrionN !!

 

[World Citizen]

@OrionN I was zooming because I saw someone peeking in the pic
If you can send me some RAW pics ill happily edit them for you!

 

[World Citizen]

I am not going to leave it this way but one would think a Carpet would kill a Alveopora within minutes.

I found them happily attached to each other this morning and waited it out a few hours.

The Alveopora opened like nothing was happening and now they are fine.
I found it on the webcam. I was like... What?

 

[World Citizen]

Unphased

 

[Reef Jedi]

 

[OrionN]

Gigantea, Magnifica, and BTA at The Seattle Aquarium. Highly recommended if any of you have a chance to be in Seattle.

 

[OrionN]

Cold water anemones

 

[ravila101]

RBTA

 

[OrionN]

@OrionN I was zooming because I saw someone peeking in the pic
If you can send me some RAW pics ill happily edit them for you!

I really try to get the color of the pictures as close to as I see it as possible. The anemone under somewhat blue light is different from white light. But I don’t try to boost the color so it looks nicer.

 

[World Citizen]

I really try to get the color of the pictures as close to as I see it as possible. The anemone under somewhat blue light is different from white light. But I don’t try to boost the color so it looks nicer.

Yeah, I try to darken the dark and balance the white in pics. I don't use saturation. The DeHaze functions also helps allot.

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Other question.

Why do we mostly read we need to feed small pieces of food to a anemone. Most written stuf talks about small pieces of Squid, fish, shrimp or pellets.

I am just wondering how anemone react to food in the wild. Once in a while something will swim in to it, and that will not be "small parts".

My personal goal is to feed complete animals once in a while. Maybe once in 3 weeks. I want to feed a whole fish or shrimp raw.
I think this is what is happening in the wild.
Pellets I don't use.

Imagining the wild.. what drifts in the anemone once in a while? And does it more often rejects this due to size, or just tries to take it anyway?

 

[386reeftrader]

Yeah, I try to darken the dark and balance the white in pics. I don't use saturation. The DeHaze functions also helps allot.

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Other question.

Why do we mostly read we need to feed small pieces of food to a anemone. Most written stuf talks about small pieces of Squid, fish, shrimp or pellets.

I am just wondering how anemone react to food in the wild. Once in a while something will swim in to it, and that will not be "small parts".

My personal goal is to feed complete animals once in a while. Maybe once in 3 weeks. I want to feed a whole fish or shrimp raw.
I think this is what is happening in the wild.
Pellets I don't use.

Imagining the wild.. what drifts in the anemone once in a while? And does it more often rejects this due to size, or just tries to take it anyway?

IMO, anemones specifically the ones we keep in aquaria do not "need" to be fed at all. They will thrive off of good water chemistry and strong lighting.

I don't imagine anemones in the wild catching and eating prey all that often. Most marine fauna instinctually know to stay away, and on top of that clowns and other anemone fish chase off anything that come near. I think its more likely if they do catch anything its small larval stage fish or inverts that are not strong enough to avoid them.

It certainly doesn't hurt to feed, but feeding larger, whole animals to your nem increases risk. They can not break down bone, and unless you're collecting what you're feeding you risk introducing something funky. JMO.

 

[OrionN]

Interesting fact: In the temperate anemone world, green is brown. The zoos of these anemones are green in color so the most of these anemones, base color is green.

 

[OrionN]

Haddoni at The Seattle Aquarium. 25 years ago there were huge clams displays. I did not see any Giant clam display yesterday

Huge tangs

Garden eels

 

[World Citizen]

Now a other carpet has walked on the Alveopora. I removed the other one last week, and now.. a different one.

I don't know if it attracts Carpets or something, but this is the second time.

Again, the Alveo does not clinch. He seems fine and the carpet does not seem to impact him. Seems like a Carpet-proof coral. At least the one I got.

 

[World Citizen]

Check this,
One of them has found a perfect spot for a backside foto. The sunlicht is passing trough it and I can see the back.

The round things are the polyps on the front side. They seem to be stringed together with wirelike structures.

 

[TommyF]

Check this,
One of them has found a perfect spot for a backside foto. The sunlicht is passing trough it and I can see the back.

The round things are the polyps on the front side. They seem to be stringed together with wirelike structures.

Amazing observation and great photo! Thanks.

 

[World Citizen]

IMO, anemones specifically the ones we keep in aquaria do not "need" to be fed at all. They will thrive off of good water chemistry and strong lighting.

I don't imagine anemones in the wild catching and eating prey all that often. Most marine fauna instinctually know to stay away, and on top of that clowns and other anemone fish chase off anything that come near. I think its more likely if they do catch anything its small larval stage fish or inverts that are not strong enough to avoid them.

It certainly doesn't hurt to feed, but feeding larger, whole animals to your nem increases risk. They can not break down bone, and unless you're collecting what you're feeding you risk introducing something funky. JMO.

Thanks for your post. I agree.

But 1 thing just got stuck in my head and after long thinking I don't agree... yet.

"They can not break down bone"

Can you maybe tell me more about this and how you got to this info? I am purely interested and not in attack mode .

After thinking about this for a few days... I just don't think this is a problem. When I feed fish the anemone's are doing whatever they can to swallow it. There is not a second they spit it out, or have the feeling it's to big. It kind of looks like they are used to this and are eager to swallow a whole fish.

Do you think a wild anemone gets in trouble when he eats bone? I just philosophize about this, and can not imagine wild anemone would have a problem with this.
They swallow everything that touches them I think... and are presumably pretty hardy against problems.
I would rather say they are a garbage bin of the ocean instead of being sensitive to things like bone.

Please.. if you can write more about it.. I love to read. I am not judging.

 

[386reeftrader]

Thanks for your post. I agree.

But 1 thing just got stuck in my head and after long thinking I don't agree... yet.

"They can not break down bone"

Can you maybe tell me more about this and how you got to this info? I am purely interested and not in attack mode .

After thinking about this for a few days... I just don't think this is a problem. When I feed fish the anemone's are doing whatever they can to swallow it. There is not a second they spit it out, or have the feeling it's to big. It kind of looks like they are used to this and are eager to swallow a whole fish.

Do you think a wild anemone gets in trouble when he eats bone? I just philosophize about this, and can not imagine wild anemone would have a problem with this.
They swallow everything that touches them I think... and are presumably pretty hardy against problems.
I would rather say they are a garbage bin of the ocean instead of being sensitive to things like bone.

Please.. if you can write more about it.. I love to read. I am not judging.

Sure thing, it is not just an opinion of mine but more or less a fact. This is why we see them expel bits of junk after a large meal. Bones, or shells from crustaceans are always expelled

I do not mean to sound like anemones do not or will not eat whole fish/inverts. I just find it unnecessary. Anemone will thrive just the same under quality lighting and water params

In the ocean I’d say yes they are extremely robust and hardy. In aquarium they can be a bit more sensitive, even a well established nem could become sick and diseased if it ingested a piece of contaminated fish or seafood. Not saying that’s what will happen, but it adds risk and it’s just not needed.