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I want to start a 20 gallon clown fish tank(Yes you guys talked me out of a smaller tank) and i want to have an anenome in with the clown. I don't know much about saltwater inverts i was hoping someone could kinda help me. Do they need special lights? Do they need feedings of shrimp are something? I have been keeping freshwater fish for 3 years now. If you could put a pic with the name that would help. Thanks
My tanks: 20 gallon 5 guppies, 5 platies, 1 cave tetras, 6 black neons. 20 gallon tall: 4 dwarf puffers, 2 bettas, 3 glofish, 2 kisser gourami, 3 cories, 2 honey gold gourami, 1 oto, 1 clown loach. 20 gallon tall:1 cichalid, 5 bluegill.
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| Don't. Begginers shouldn't try anenomes, they are just heartbreak and wasted money with out experiance. Your clownfish will enjoy rock structures or even fake anenomes just fine.
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Neons4ever (4/8/2011)
Don't. Begginers shouldn't try anenomes, they are just heartbreak and wasted money with out experiance. Your clownfish will enjoy rock structures or even fake anenomes just fine.
couldnt have said it better myself... ive had 3, 2 of which i bought. youre gonna pay a lot for one and its gonna die in a month, maybe 2 if youre lucky.
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| As far as I know the only really difficult things about them are maintaining the outstanding water conditions they require and acclimization. As for feeding I think it's just putting a piece of shrimp or fish on a tentacle every week or so. Also, they need very strong lights, but many of the nano tank setups come with pretty strong lighting.
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| There's 2 reasons why anemones are hard to keep and more experienced hobist will recommend you avoid them. 1. Getting a healthy specimen, they may look fine at the store but it takes weeks sometimes for injured or unhealthy ones to die. I originally bought 3 for my reef tank and ended up with one surviving. I also purchsed a couple of different kinds later and had them die while the other was perfectly fine along with all the corals I had in with them doing fine and thriving. 2. Improper lighting. Anemones are coral-like animals in that they have algae in their tissues that feed them through photosynthesis and unless you are willing to invest in a high output lighting system like VHOs, metal halides, compact flour., etc. they will ALWAYS die. the problem with purchasing these lights solely for an anemone is that they also make algae grow which forces you to be more dillegent in tank cleaning and purchasing a protien skimmer and properly efficient filtration. Also, feeding them solid food like shrimp is not necessary and sometimes in a small system not good. I would occassionally squirt a little bit of brine shrimp into mine as I was feeding the fish just as a little extra food for it. They cannot survive just on that. If you are willing to invest the extra time and money needed to keep one I would suggest you get a green bubble anemone. In my experience they are one of the most hardy of the most common ones out there. The easiest to keep of all of them in my opinion is the carpet anemones, but they get way too large for a 20. The bubbles can get large but not as large and it seems to vary greatly on the individual specimen. both will host clownfish. The carpets also have a bad habit of eating 'non-clownfish' fish in a reef tank as well.
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From what I've seen and researched, anemones are not reccomended for beginners because they're THAT HARD to keep. Clownfish can live without anemones. I've also read that if you keep clownfish with anemones, the clowns will be very territorial and chase off any fish that come close to the anemone.
_________________________________________Five Gallon: empty QT/breeding tank Thirty Gallon: one gourami, one angel Forty Gallon: one angel, two german blue rams, six bronze cories, seven pristella tetras, three rummynose tetras, two gold honey gouramis Fifty Five Gallon: one salfin pleco, one shibukin, one fancy gold shibukin, two comets, one common
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| My green bubbletip anemones were bout the easiest thing for me in my reef tank. They went thru a couple of bad nitrate spikes, algae problems, the usual things that usually come with slacking off on your upkeep. They actually would split sometimes when the water was kinda crappy. I was fighting them to maintain only 3 or 4 anemones at a time, selling or giving away the new ones. They were one of the first inverts I got when I decided to do a reef tank and never had a problem once I got one that was healthy. I had carpet for a while too, but after it became almost a foot across and ate 300 bucks worth of fish, I got rid of it. The other species i never had any luck with, honestly i only tried them once or twice. The LFS owners said they were a little more difficult to keep so i gave up on them after a few tries.
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Ive only had my tank for a few months and I have two of them and they are doing well. It all depends on what stuff you use, ive been having more problems with shrimps and crabs. But you do have to have special lights and they are expensive. But I agree with the other posts you need to have your tank go through all the stages before you get an aneneme. And if you want a clown and ane combo then i would hold off on both because you need a wild clown to be able to host an ane.
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| you don't need a wild clown to host an anemone
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| Thanks for all the help guys. BTW: its still the old bassmaster, just got an equarium account and i had to get a new forum name and all.
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