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Yeah he is not in the tank anymore.... I was already selling all of them but I've had it with anemones, they stayed in their spot for over a year and suddenly start wandering off all of a sudden....
 
Anemones are absolutely beautiful creatures but I don’t like dealing with them multiplying like weeds and moving around the tank.
 
Exactly why I’ve avoided them for 20 years. Since my tank upgrade at the beginning of the year I have been contemplating it. Thanks for slapping some sense into me.
 
Each passing day (and post) has me second guessing setting up my clownfish w/ anemone tank. 🤔
 
My anemone never did anything crazy like this. However, it was the main stress inducer for me when we went out of town. I always was concerned we’d come back to the anemone dead or nuking our tank (did sadly come back to it being dead one week)
 
My anemone never did anything crazy like this. However, it was the main stress inducer for me when we went out of town. I always was concerned we’d come back to the anemone dead or nuking our tank (did sadly come back to it being dead one week)
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what do you think caused it?
 
It really depends on the species of anemone. BTAs, which are typically the most common in reef tanks, are notorious for moving around, and are one of the only anemones that inflate like a balloon and float around the tank, inevitably into a powerhead.

There are some anemones that are well suited for reef tanks, with some caveats. For example, H. magnifica (AKA Ritteri) are great if healthy when acquired, and if given the proper environment, they typically stay in place (a flat rock away from tank walls--forming a rock "island"--so that they can spread their foot our like a fried egg, as well as ample light and flow). They're also natural hosts to both percula and ocellaris, which are typically the mosts common clownfish species in our reef tanks.
 
When I setup my second tank, I thought for a second to get a clown and an anemone. I'm glad I decided against it.
 

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