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Sorry I didn’t listen. I kinda thought I was doomed from the beginning as well. Does that mean it nuked my tank? Or did I get it out in time. It was still attached to the rock very hard.
Help! Anemone shriveled up and deflated
Ummmm Wrong, not a arbitrary date!
If it was stuck to rock you should be fine. I would do a 10% WC just to be safe.
I had an RBTA for 2 months and my Maroon clownfish took to it from day one, and he molested it till it died. Honestly I would try to keep it separated till it's established. My RBTA was pretty young, and it could not take the Maroon's violent rubbing. Other clown types are less aggressive hosts, but still could annoy the RBTA and keep it stressed 24/7
That's a good thing for now
I disagree. It's completely arbitrary and doesn't really address the requirements.
I put mine in it's current tank with the tank being less than 1 month old. Went past the 6 month mark that many cite and is doing great. And it's in a 29 gallon. I run a skimmer and a UV light filter.
Cases of cyano: 0
Cases of algae outbreaks: 0
Cases of anything: 0
Why did it work? Because I didn't overstock the tank with a bunch of other stuff. The tank is the anemone, 2 clownfish it hosts and then a few frags off my other tank like some zoa's, a hammer coral, finger leather, etc. The entire tank is solely for the anemone. Very low bioload, very little to stablize, very little change over time. Vs what most people do in new tanks which is overstock it with a ton of fish, over feed, which leads to cyano, algae, and other outbreaks.
6 months doesn't bring a magical stability fairy. And it doesn't magically give good husbandry habits either.
The color has nothing to do with that, anemones can sense each other and can fight over territory. This works for all anemone types, you just happened to be a different color of the same type of anemone.
I have three separate mixed reef tanks (all on totally different and independent systems) and two of them have BTAs. All tanks were set up about 4 months ago with the nems being in there for the latter 2 months. One BWBTA and one RBTA, both are doing fine. IME 6 months before a nem isn’t a hard set rule, nems being able to go into tanks should be on a tank by tank basis, with the 6 months thing as a rule of thumb. Here’s the RBTA, happy as anything.we're talking reef tanks. not anemone tanks. totally different bio-loads? One can learn alot in 6 months.
Im definitely not advocating for everybody putting nems in this early, and I do feel as if my tanks are a special case, I’m just saying that it’s totally possible for a nem to live, grow, and thrive in a tank that is less than 6 months old. I started with wet live rock from a friend’s tank that was 20+ years old and the rocks had been in the sump for 5+ years. Also used his water change water to set up and cycle the tank (about a month). Never experienced any uglies or major algae outbreaks. I don’t think this is a method a lot of reefers can use, I’m just saying that it worked for me.
we're not saying it can't be done....just never works out well for the novice.
Yep
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