Tube anemone

[clevergeek]

I'm taking on a trade deal for quite a bit of rock and livestock, and one of the items in the tank is a big (big!) tube anemone.

I'd never seen anything like that before, but it's gorgeous. He openly admitted that once it decided to take a roll through the tank and killed off a bunch of his corals (this puppy has LONG purple tentacles).

Is this guy a bad idea? Any one else keeping them? It's by far the prettiest anemone I've seen...

Thanks!

 

[returnofsid]

Tube Anemones are beautiful. Unfortunately, I don't know a lot about them. Here's a great article about them though. It dispells a few myths as well. Like the myth that they're "fish eaters." As far as I know, they're also NOT photosynthetic, so will need to be fed plankton. Actually, two great links

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/june2004/invert.htm
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tubeanem.htm

 

[clevergeek]

Tube Anemones are beautiful. Unfortunately, I don't know a lot about them. Here's a great article about them though. It dispells a few myths as well. Like the myth that they're "fish eaters." As far as I know, they're also NOT photosynthetic, so will need to be fed plankton. Actually, two great links

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/june2004/invert.htm
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tubeanem.htm

Thanks for the reply, I actually stumbled on the WWM article you linked at lunch...and I think this guy is a no-go. It really is stunning, but I'm just not ready to let it kill all the rest of my coral.

 

[morgan]

ive collected cyrianthus, tube anenomes at 18m they are very pretty
they do like to live in mud but if u get it just lay it down and cover the tube with sand