Corals

[Force spike]

Hi everybody, yesterday my anemoni ( dunno how to spell) Started moving. it is now up the glass and is dangerously close to the filter. I tried moving it but it;s stuck on the glass every tight! So what should i do? if it gets sucked in the filter my clowns ain't gona have a home anymore!

[madman19710]

get rid of the filter if you have live rock and a good skimmer you shouldnt need it just do regular water changes

[Force spike]

get rid of the filter if you have live rock and a good skimmer you shouldnt need it just do regular water changes

Rally? cool i ever knew that...i thought Filter was like the most important thing!

[jdepp]

sorry to sound like a jerk, but if you don't know about the filter requirements of reef inhabitants you should definately not have an anemone, they are long lived in the wild and require special care to survive! it's most likely moving because it's not happy and will soon die. let me ask you this: have you fed it? do you know what the lighting requirements are for it? also if it is too small for 2 clown fish then they will smother it to death. not purposely they will in a way love it to death. i don't mean to sound harsh but i've seen too many NEMO hobbiests that get these wonderful creatures out of selfishness so they can see it with a clownfish not that you are but you're first statement about the filter leads me to believe that you still need to learn more about reef creatures before you try to keep an anemone, in one way you are right the filter is a key role in any aquairum but the reef needs different kinds like protein skimmers and live rock and live sand not so much hang on tank filters and canistar filters you will only wind up feeling sorry for it when it dies and a key pointer that it is not happy is that it moves around, when an anemone is happy it tends to stay in an area where it gets the light it's zooanthelle needs and food current etc... also if it looks white and has no color it needs to be feed regularly and has been bleached. good luck please don't take this in a bad way just trying to help you.
i have plenty of sps clams and am sure that an anemone would be happy in my tanks but am still weiry of keeping them, also for your info most anemones leave toxins in the water when they die usually killing everything in the tank if i were you i'd pry it off the glass or catch it when it is moving and bring it back. most fish stores will tell you that they are easy to keep but the reality of the situation is that they don't keep them long enough to know, and the ones that do die in their care get dumped in the trash before you see them.

[kevinpo]

There are many types of anemones some are easy to keep, and some are very difficult. Some require intense lighting, and some are non photosynthetic. Some live in sand or mud and some live only on rocks. Some multiply like rabbits and some never do in the home aquaria. That being said most anemones move because the water quality, food, flow, or lighting conditions are not favorable for them. Most types of anemones would like to be fed a couple of times a week. A small piece of raw shrimp or other meaty food usually works. A picture, description, or common name it was sold to you under would be helpful in determining its requirements. Most anemones do not like a strong constant current so if you point a powerhead just above it, at the filter it will not move into the strong flow.

HTH,
Kevin