Anemones: What's the secret to keeping them?

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Hi folks,

I'm fairly new to the forum and to marine aquariums in general. I've had my trials and tribulations in getting my tank (55 gal) stablized but all is fine now except, I cannot seem to keep Anemones for more than a few months and they shrivel up and die? I have hand fed them brine shrimp and they react to it as well as feeding them phytoplankton. They are even moving about the tank from time to time. One thing I don't have in the tank is a goot 10k light. I'm still on daylight spectrum flourescent bulbs but will upgrade soon as I want to have a reef tank. I've heard inverts are hard to keep but I don't know what is wrong? Water changes are 20% monthly and pH, Nitrates are at .10 and all the rest are all in line. I should have stated that these are "Pink Tip" Anemones??????

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
 
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Im still of the opinion that anemones should not be kept in captivity. In the wild anemones live for well over a hundred years. Success in our tanks is measured in months or occasionally years. But more often than not, the anemones mysteriously die.

Considering none of the anemones we buy are captive bred, they really should be left in the ocean until we understand how to properly care for them.
 
anenomes can and do thrive in aquariums. How do you think you get aquacultured ones. Some close by me has a 90 and started with one anenome. Now about 3 years down the road he has sold about 20 anenomes. All of those came from when the one original split and then those split and so on. With the right light, good water, and if you feed it, it will thrive no problem.
 
stephenray75 said:
anenomes can and do thrive in aquariums. How do you think you get aquacultured ones.
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Where do you get aquacultured ones? I know of no place that sells them.


With the right light, good water, and if you feed it, it will thrive no problem.
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Short term... Lets see how well his colony is doing in 200 years. Its more likely that at some point in the future his anemones start dying for no reason.
 
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Where do you see aquatictech seeling aquacultured anemones? I see 'captive raised' anemones.....
 
slipknottin said:
Sure are. But they have captive raised, not captive bred.
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The point is that there are anemones that can be purchased or traded for that did not come out of the ocean. Whether they are clones, rather than from planulae, so they can't be called "bred," seems like a semantic issue.
 
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