BTAs and salt

[Gaines69]

I’m seriously thinking about purchasing an BTA for my pair of clowns. They seem to like the fake anamone I have in the tank now so I figured a real one would be better and make them feel more at home. I was wondering if I should start using instant ocean reef salt as opposed to plain instant ocean sea salt? Also what kind of sponge should I use to cover the intakes on my filter and power head?
Thanks in advance
Virginia

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

There's no need to advantage to switch salts to keep a BTA. I kept many types of anemomes (including BTA) using normal IO. here's an older picture showing a nice purple H. crispa (top photo) and a rose BTA (bottom photo) in that salt mix (all I ever used):