Thanks! They seem to do good with dirty water like you saw. Not poor water, but dirty water. Stable perimeters are favored, but they will definitely tolerate a range as long as fluctuations are slow. More so than coral. They’re all individuals, I’ve got one that collapses fast with calcium additions, the others don’t show any signs with it. One deflates like a blink when touched, (goes from full inflated to a glob in 2 seconds, super sensative) others don’t care, you can rub them raw. They are all absolutely a unique personality with different reactions.
I think it’s kind of like everyone having clowns lay eggs. Everyone has clowns spawn, but without the right care they never grow up. Im guessing there’s a little more to it than just standing back and watching. With the amount of people with multiple anemones, odds of them multiplying in the tank are high, there’s got to be more to it than just hoping they show up on a rock one day. This tank the gigs are in now dumps the overflows into an empty tank, so I’m hoping once the tank is settled down, I can use this area of overflows to see what settles out. I’m not expecting success but will be fun to tinker with.
I don’t know. I think, and I could be wrong, but I’m thinking since they are anemones, in water that’s aged with all the tiny stuff that lives in a tank, it’s not a food source problem, I think it’s an environmental problem, with flow and light, mainly flow my guess... I would think light is all they need to grow, once planted with flow, being an anemone. I’ve sucked them through the tips before, but getting them planted in a spot with flow and light has never happened, I’ve always tried to contain them in a mug or container with a screen which then they just melt, not good flow/turnover. Maybe their foot doesn’t work for a while? Playing with them can suck a massive amount of time. Before I spend more time with that, I’d also like to add fine sponges on the bulkheads that join the 2 bottom tanks so when they let go they hit the sponge instead of the pumps. Maybe over the next couple years someone figures it out, there’s enough multi gig tanks, or multiple anemone tanks, seems odd no one has them multiply, or any anemone for that matter besides splitting mags and BTA. Which makes me think filtration/flow is the problem with any of them settling in a good spot. I’ve had an anthias for a few years, it only eats live food from the live rocks. I don’t think it’s a micro live food shortage.
Yes, I got stung bad, one latched onto my arm for a long time while I was trying to remove one and I let it just sit on my arm for the whole time. Basically the whole disk stuck to my arm and I left it.
Thanks. 7 gigs(2 green 2 purple 3 Blue).
