Anemone success? Failure? Length of time?

[Dlckwood]

Hello, for a school project I have a few questions to ask everyone. Thanks for participating.
David

[Saltz Creep]

RBTA is the easiest. Others can be downright difficult to impossible longterm even with perfect conditions.

[LTJGAlex]

This is a tough poll to answer because a lot of experienced reefers will have had all of the above experiences. What's your thesis or hypothesis anyway?

[jedimike]

I don't know how to answer... my BTA is going on 6 months, but he is still alive. If I check 6-9 months, your past tense (kept) makes it sound like the anemone only lived 6-9 months then died.

[Gobie]

Sebae_anemone 5 years Still alive and well. Mated clowns are living in it now. It only gets fed when food falls into it, I don’t target feed. It was about 1 inch across when I got it, now it’s bigger then a dinner plate.

[Stile2]

I have had a RBTA for just going on a year now. Over the last month he has stayed small without expanded. My Maroon Clown is getting pretty ticked off.

For the last two weeks I have target feed the RBTA with mysis, krill, Ocean Plankton each with Liquid Life and he is getting better daily.

Keith

[Jamesurq]

I killed mine - closed loop input got it.

[greenbean36191]

In my tank I've had a GBTA for about 2.5 years. First I kept it under 2x65 PC and now under 250w halides. I rarely feed it.

I've also had one that arrived on death's door and never recovered. It took about a week to die.

In the lab we've had probably about 20. We lost a few to wandering over overflows and being shredded. A few also bleached under poor lighting. Some recovered after we fixed the problem but some died. Most have been doing well for about 8 months.

[Wiskey]

Condy I had for about 1.3 years, I got tired of it eating my new clowns though, and other fish/shrimp (go figure).

Seabe is about 1 year, he is great, does not move, and does not eat anything I don't want him too. However my clown does not host in him which is a dissapointment.

I have MH lighting, but for most of the time in question I had 220W PC over a 50 gallon tank.

HTH,
Whiskey

[HotHotHot]

I've had what I believe to be heteractis crispa alive for about 4 years. It's split at least 3 times. I'm running 440 watts of VHO. never feed it anymore.

[catdoc]

I have kept rbtas and gbtas for 18 mos, they keep splitting and seem to be growing faster than I can move the corals out of their reach. I did receive 1 gbta via mail order that didn't survive shipping/acclimation. The ones that I have were obtained locally from hobbyists, I think the mail-order one was probably newly collected.

[reefpeep2004]

Green Haddoni for more than 12 months now. Tried several RBTA's but my large female GBM just loved them to death. The carpet was about 5-6" when I first got it and is 10" or so now. I rarely change water and have quite a field of hair algae going. Seems like the carpet loves it anyway? (T5 lighting)

[gfk]

ive had a bta for like 6 months now (tank is 6 months) and it seems to be doing great

[anabolic_1]

I had a condy in my tank for about 6 years until it intoduced itself to a powerhead along with the crab that was hosting it. I have 375 watts of light over a 75 gallon. I fed mine bits of trout and trout eggs, and tuna on occasion.
HTH
Mike.

[winnermc]

Had my RBTA for 4 months. I killed him because I neglected to cover a powerhead intake and he was chewed up.

[Puffdragon]

I've kept a LTA for almost 2 years, the clowns feed it, I have under 330w of VHO it is over a foot in diameter now. Started out about 5-6 inches.

[mattls]

RBTA for one year and GBTA for 6 months. My tomato clown hosts in the RBTA and my Maroon Clown hosts in my GBTA. Actually my Tomato Clown owns the tank and he slips over into the GBTA sometimes also. The maroon clown just waits for him to get out. Iv had my Tomato clown over 3 1/2 years. Gave him the RBTA a year ago. RBTA 's are great . I have mine under 2/250HQI 10,000k and 2/54WT5HO actinic. 120G

[G_cuvier]

I don't even recall the species any more but it's some form of carpet anemone and is very "hot", (when you touch it it sticks to you). I have had it for 8 years or more. Started in a 10 gallon under Coralife 50/50, moved to a 75 under 4 VHO's finally in a 220 gallon under 5 VHO's and 2 250W MH's. Never really fed it, always had good color and has grown from 4" to about 15" when fully expanded.

[thugmebaby]

LTA living and doing well (acutally splitting right now) for over 2 years. Carpet Anemone (green) been doing well for over 8 months. A new addition to other tank A LTA been alive and doing well for 4 months now.

[frosstman]

I have had a bta for a year and a half. It has spawned once and is a male. Also split 3 times. I sold two and currently have 2. The bta is an orange-tipped green. Here is a pic:

[jakes39reef]

kepping a carpet,
killed a sebea

[ol'reefer]

Rose Bubble Tip going on fourth generation clone

[Shy_Koi]

RBTA for almost 2 years in a 15g, under 2x65w PC. It's hosted by 2 true percs, and I hand feed it krill, weekly, since the fish have never offered to...
I was all set to transfer it to my new 55g w/ MH this week, but the darn thing just finished splitting for the first time
~Tamara

[vessxpress1]

I've had my GBTA in my 38 gal under 2 96 watt PCs for 4 months now. It's nearly doubled in size but has some bleaching. It readily eats shrimp twice a week. Most of the bulbs are always full, but have some bleaching on them. Wish it was back to normal. Doesn't move though, seems to be healthy otherwise. The rest of it looks great.

[Agu]

Two years + in one ten gallon tank.

One + year in another ten gallon tank.

96w pc on both tanks.

Gave them both away because the tanks were too small, and because they started wandering. If tank size and wandering is related I don't know but suspect it's a factor.