Bubble Tip Anemone Show Off / Eye Candy Thread

NanoCrazed · Jun 25, 2018

My new bta tank is finally up and runnning.

Nem list:

2x Black widows
Marz Martian rbta
Phoenix rbta
Inferno rbta
2x Ultra rbta
White banded gbta
White tipped bta

Rispa · Jun 25, 2018

NanoCrazed said:
My new bta tank is finally up and runnning.

Nem list:

2x Black widows
Marz Martian rbta
Phoenix rbta
Inferno rbta
2x Ultra rbta
White banded gbta
White tipped bta

Beautiful anemones and setup!

FarmerTy · Jun 25, 2018

NanoCrazed said:
My new bta tank is finally up and runnning.

Nem list:

2x Black widows
Marz Martian rbta
Phoenix rbta
Inferno rbta
2x Ultra rbta
White banded gbta
White tipped bta

I'd be careful mixing aquacultured anemones and wild anemones. Anecdoctally, some have had their expensive aquacultured anemones die on them when adding rainbows or wild anemones that were just collected.

For instance, I wouldn't put my Inferno with a Rainbow personally.

When I added my Colorado Sunburst to my tank 3 years ago, I had two Rainbow BTAs. My CSB almost died from a bacterial infection and i treated it with Cipro. After treating it, I removed the Rainbows and never had a problem again.

Again, anecdotal as I could never associate directly but I am one of many that experienced the same thing.

Just keep an eye out for lack of inflation, tips that look damaged.

Rispa · Jun 25, 2018

FarmerTy said:
I'd be careful mixing aquacultured anemones and wild anemones. Anecdoctally, some have had their expensive aquacultured anemones die on them when adding rainbows or wild anemones that were just collected.

For instance, I wouldn't put my Inferno with a Rainbow personally.

When I added my Colorado Sunburst to my tank 3 years ago, I had two Rainbow BTAs. My CSB almost died from a bacterial infection and i treated it with Cipro. After treating it, I removed the Rainbows and never had a problem again.

Again, anecdotal as I could never associate directly but I am one of many that experienced the same thing.

Just keep an eye out for lack of inflation, tips that look damaged.

Has anyone experimented with ciproing all anemones in question for a month, then seeing if they can comingle?

FarmerTy · Jun 25, 2018

Rispa said:
Has anyone experimented with ciproing all anemones in question for a month, then seeing if they can comingle?

I didn't bother. The CSB was so much nicer than the Rainbows that I booted them.

NanoCrazed · Jun 25, 2018

I've never had too many problems mixing wild vs cultured.

I had mixed nem tanks for awhile. The real problem is when you have a sick nem which can be either wild or cultured and then it spreads.

Some of my wild nems are super troopers and survive the most catastrophic situations.

Happens in my shroom tank too... :/

These nems have been together for a long while already. Only blip though is my lot of black widows. Bought 9... only 2 left. The ones that died were in dedicated and isolated single species tanks even. Ironically the ones in the mixed tank faired better...

Rispa · Jun 25, 2018

NanoCrazed said:
I've never had too many problems mixing wild vs cultured.

I had mixed nem tanks for awhile. The real problem is when you have a sick nem which can be either wild or cultured and then it spreads.

Some of my wild nems are super troopers and survive the most catastrophic situations.

Happens in my shroom tank too... :/

These nems have been together for a long while already. Only blip though is my lot of black widows. Bought 9... only 2 left. The ones that died were in dedicated and isolated single species tanks even. Ironically the ones in the mixed tank faired better...

Did you do anything special when introducing? What science did you watch out for when looking for a sick anemone? Or even a questionable another me for that matter

Rispa · Jun 25, 2018

Anemone for that matter

FarmerTy · Jun 25, 2018

NanoCrazed said:
I've never had too many problems mixing wild vs cultured.

I had mixed nem tanks for awhile. The real problem is when you have a sick nem which can be either wild or cultured and then it spreads.

Some of my wild nems are super troopers and survive the most catastrophic situations.

Happens in my shroom tank too... :/

These nems have been together for a long while already. Only blip though is my lot of black widows. Bought 9... only 2 left. The ones that died were in dedicated and isolated single species tanks even. Ironically the ones in the mixed tank faired better...

Nano, what aquacultured anemones did you keep besides BWs? Always nice to hear about other's experiences.

NanoCrazed · Jun 26, 2018

Of the list I have, about 3/4 of it are cultured (I had more but had a severe tank crash from a 8" BTA fail at splitting and then clogging my pumps while I was away on a biz trip).

The green banded and white tipped btas are wild. I had a wild POTO supernova that was a real survivor before the crash ultimately took it out.

Only best practice I did was QT the new nems before intro. I will probably proactively treat with cipro as part of my QT protocol though with my new setup since I am moving almost all my nems into the new tank. (Trying to get species only tanks set up)