tube anemones

[firefish]

thinking of getting a tube anemone - cerianthid.
just wondering how manyof you have them and are they in reef setups or in seperate anemone tanks.
As i v'e been reading up on them and they aren't fish killers more filter feeders that will take some small pieces of flesh.Also don't rely on light aas a food source so would be ideal for my more shadier areas.
any advice welcome

jase

[johnski]

any article i've read , and admittedly its only one or two, state that the majority of these anemones are fish eaters and are susceptible to attacks by bristleworms, here is a good article by albert thiel about them
http://www.homereef.com/reference/cerianthid.html

[firefish]

hi john,
interesting thread, been through google researching.
i know people have had them in reef tanks without any problems i was after those reefers which have them, for any first hand experiences.
jase

[pavlo]

Tuan had a couple on his reef. I dont know if he comes on here anymore but he is often on reefcentral where his user name is 'TLP' maybe worth PM'ing him

[bearindrag]

hi have got one in my tank .it will need a clear space around as they do sting and they do like a deep substrate .as i only had a shallow substrate i found a place a the bottom to the left of my tank where there was a hole and filled it with substrate and it settled in very will and it took brineshrimp most of the time i feed the fish hope this helps chris

[mantis]

as above really but you do need to feed them, they will take small pieces of food like brine (picking off when you feed the whole tank) but its better to feed a piece of cockle/lancefish every other fews days or so.

dont regard them as filter feeders as this is the wrong category for them.

they do sting other corals if they come into contact with them and if given the chance will take a fish if its clumsy enough to have a wander through its tentecles

hth

craig

[firefish]

thought i would update as i purchased a tube anemone.
£10 and have had it for about 4 weeks now.:D
eats likes a pig feeds every day and goes though a cube of mysis, more given the chance :p
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h41/firefish01/mini-tube3.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h41/firefish01/mini-tube2.jpg

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h41/firefish01/mini-tube4.jpg

jase

[cajen]

Hey, nice Jase! Any problems with the fish? Where did you get it from? Another nice one:
http://www.cyberaquatics.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=225&osCsid=3df5fc679fa15b364ad444b877d0b719

[firefish]

hi clive,
i got it from porton. no problems with taking any fish as my smallest is a male tomato clown which is 2"
before i collected it the tube was completely bare as they had it in the bottom of the lr/anemone tank next to the coral tanks and of course there's no sand in them. must have been lucky as it must have only come in a day or two before i saw it.i managed to get the staff to place in a small crate with sand and collected it the following weekend. by which time the tube had some sand stuck to it.
So i knew it wasn't in too bad a shape.
So far it has taken the 4 weeks to start to open up about an hour before the halides go off. nice to see it open without having to shine a torch to feed it.
jase

[Wh00pS]

I have 2 tubes in a 12g nano for about 6 weeks and have had no problems at all with them, they are the same as the ones in the cyber aquatics link.I have a shallow substrate in my nano but some very large holes in my rock, so i half filled 2 holes with sand and placed them in there and they both seem very happy.They havn't tried to pull themselves out at all (tube nems will do this if they dont like where they are)
I feed them every 3 days on cockle (which they seem to love) and they will take any food that is floating by them as well.
They are fully extended almost all the time and my cleaner shrimp loves to torment them by poking at thier tenticles. Very graceful creatures with thier tenticles extended in full flow and i can watch them for hours.

[sinder255248]

I've had one in mine in the past, was very health but got too big for the tank. My tank is a 4ft but when it fully expanded at night it was a real pain. It never took a fish but I did used to feed it a silverside every couple of days. Once they get big start watching out for them. If you don't have enough substrate you could use some pvc pipe and fill it with sand and place it in there.