Anemones and corals

[mogurnda]

Well, after deciding that an anemone won't work in my tank, I am having second thoughts. I have a 20 gallon with 130 watts of PC lighting. The soft corals (sarcohpyton, green star polyp, tubipora) are thriving, and the montipora frags have settled in nicely. I was thinking that a bubble-tipped anemone might be fun, but it might be trouble. Any thoughts?
As far as the other specs, I am running a bakpak 2R skimmer, a 12" mini-refugium with a huge wad of chaetomorpha, a (nominally) 500 gph closed-loop system. Two ocellaris clowns, 2 cleaners shrimp, and a sizable collection of janitors and hitchhikers (see my specs post).

[mogurnda]

C'mon Ray, you must have an opinion:D

[OrionGirl]

The biggest problem with anemones is getting them to attach, without roaming around and injuring the other corals and critters that can't get out of it's way.

[mogurnda]

I guess that's my biggest worry, and why I had originally decided to avoid it. The tank is small, and I could easily see the anemone wreaking havoc before settling down.
It would be fun to have an anemone, and I was hoping that someone would say "sure, I've done it, no problem."
I'll just have to add more corals, I guess.

[OrionGirl]

We've tried anemones a couple times. Each time, they've meandered around, causing problems for 2-3 days. The easiest to support--a curly-que--was finally banished to the FO tank. It would sit happily for 2-3 months, then cruise the entire tank for a week before settling down again. Since we couldn't determine what made it go wandering, we moved it out. It doesn't cause problem in the FO, though it still moves around a bit.

Ditto for a LTA--it settled too closely to a brain and was killed by the stingers. Flower anemones thrived, split, covered a rock, then suddenly shrunk down into the sand and were never seen again. As a result, we avoid anemones. I know my significant other is considering one for the invert tank we're setting up again--we'll see.

[mogurnda]

Only experience I have is with a condy that came as a freebie. Did really well until it moved to a place that I couldn't reach to feed it. Slowly shrank and faded away.