Rose bubble tip anemone in 50 nitrate

[Porcupine Reefer]

So I'm thinking about getting a rose bubble tip anemone for my tank, but my nitrates are 50pm and phosphate 0.5. I know that BTA are the more hardy anemones but would they be ok, I have lps, green star, and mushroom coral in the same tank and they all seem fine. Should I go for it?

 

[vlangel]

So I'm thinking about getting a rose bubble tip anemone for my tank, but my nitrates are 50pm and phosphate 0.5. I know that BTA are the more hardy anemones but would they be ok, I have lps, green star, and mushroom coral in the same tank and they all seem fine. Should I go for it?

I have rainbow BTAs in a high nutrient tank. My phosphates are also about .5 ppm and my nitrates are between 25 - 35 ppm. My nems do great so maybe just get your nitrates down a little.

 

[Borat]

In my experience - nems are not for beginner tanks.. they prefer a more established/mature tank.

 

[sczlars]

I had my rbta's in a high nitrate tank, and they multiplied like weeds. See my build thread and what it looked like 3 years ago. Easily over 50ppm, and high phosphates too at the time. This is a mature tank though. Also, I'm not sure how the nem would do if transferred from a low nutrient tank into an extreme high nutrient tank. For me, this buildup happened over years.

 

[zoomonster]

Gotta agree and been there done that. High nutrients and high light and RBTA's will grow like weeds.

 

[Porcupine Reefer]

In my experience - nems are not for beginner tanks.. they prefer a more established/mature tank.

My tank has been established for 3 years now, the nitrates/phosphate have been high for awhile.

 

[sczlars]

I say get one!

 

[Pistondog]

Get the rbta, they are beautiful. But will multiply and crowd out other guys.

 

[exnisstech]

I've had them in nitrates around 40 and they did well. You mention corals so make sure the tank is big enough and you are willing to deal with it if it doesn't want to stay where you want it. I have 8 or so on a center island in a 180 gallon and every once in a while one will stray so it gets placed in the home for misfits, a 40g breeder in the basement shown below.

 

[vlangel]

I've had them in nitrates around 40 and they did well. You mention corals so make sure the tank is big enough and you are willing to deal with it if it doesn't want to stay where you want it. I have 8 or so on a center island in a 180 gallon and every once in a while one will stray so it gets placed in the home for misfits, a 40g breeder in the basement shown below. View attachment 3039136

It's the same with mine. I have a plating coral skeleton that I placed mine on. That skeleton has a fairly tall stem but on occasion a nem will wander off it and then I relocate it to the 30 gallon sump tank in our basement, LOL!

 

[Borat]

My tank has been established for 3 years now, the nitrates/phosphate have been high for awhile.

Understood. I added my first GBTA after having had the tank for ~1 year - it didn't like the environment and slowly died off.. The second one was added when tank was 3 years old, this was faired much better - although it is showing its happiness / colours only now (4 yrs old tank).

When I got my second GBTA - it started to slowly shrink n size - until I realised it simply does not have enough food.. In tanks with low nitrates like mine (I have to dose nitrates - and they are still very low <5ppm) anemones need to be fed infrequently, I feed my 2 nems quarter of a shrimp every 10 days or so..

 

[bvanfish]

I've had them in nitrates around 40 and they did well. You mention corals so make sure the tank is big enough and you are willing to deal with it if it doesn't want to stay where you want it. I have 8 or so on a center island in a 180 gallon and every once in a while one will stray so it gets placed in the home for misfits, a 40g breeder in the basement shown below. View attachment 3039136

What types are these ? Do they not fight each other?

 

[Borat]

What types are these ? Do they not fight each other?

Generally nems don't sting each other. They don't sting soft corals either (especially the likes of zoas or mushrooms).. They would sting stony corals, e.g. SPS.

 

[bvanfish]

Generally nems don't sting each other. They don't sting soft corals either (especially the likes of zoas or mushrooms).. They would sting stony corals, e.g. SPS.

I mean more chemical warfare. I’ve heard not to mix but see many people do it

 

[Borat]

I mean more chemical warfare. I’ve heard not to mix but see many people do it

I might be wrong - but even though nems are distantly related to soft corals - I think they are much closer to say snails and the likes than corals.. So shouldn't have the chemical warfare issues.

 

[exnisstech]

What types are these ? Do they not fight each other?

They are all bubble tips. Most are clones from splits through years. The red I bought a few years ago and it only split once. Go figure the nicest one refuses to split. But no I have never seen any indications of fighting. Unless the ones that start moving around are bring bothered but I always figured they move because they are getting cramped. That is just my guess tho, no facts to back it up.