I was at the pet store the other day, and almost bought a "condy" anemone. My wife talked me out of it because she read someplace that they only live about a year. I went home and read that they are very hardy, and can last a long time. I said she probably read something else lives for about a year. I went ahead and read up more on them and anemones in general. They said that condys need a sandy substrate to attach themselves. They also said that when you feed them (anemones in general) (at the most 1 time a week) that you need to feed them by hand without gloves. They went on to say that an anemone needs soft tissue contact to start there "triger reaction" which draws there tentacles to there oral disc. They said do not use gloves because they will not have this soft tissue contact, anything inanimate will not cause there trigger responce. Finially they said that there tentacles where inable to penitrate human flesh, and the only thing a human feels is a glue like substance from an anemones sting.
When I had Aptasia in my tank, I fed it with a sirenge and a small piece of small tubeing attached. I would thaw out a cube of frozen carnivore food, or brine shrimp, draw some of it up in the sirenge, and squirt it near the aptasia, and that guy would get down. Also when I got the tubing too close, his tentacles would stick to it, and try to daw it towards his oral disc.
Anyway, does anyone acutally feed there anemones with their bare hands? I may not have the guts to do something like that.
When I had Aptasia in my tank, I fed it with a sirenge and a small piece of small tubeing attached. I would thaw out a cube of frozen carnivore food, or brine shrimp, draw some of it up in the sirenge, and squirt it near the aptasia, and that guy would get down. Also when I got the tubing too close, his tentacles would stick to it, and try to daw it towards his oral disc.
Anyway, does anyone acutally feed there anemones with their bare hands? I may not have the guts to do something like that.