Bought a Long Tentacle Anemone

old salt reefer · Jan 25, 2020

After walking into my LFS ever Saturday for the last 2 months and buying nothing, I got lucky today. They had a fresh shipment of fish/inverts in and there was what I was looking for, a LTA. This guy hadn't even had a chance to attach his foot letting me see the foot was undamaged. Mouth was closed,anemone was full of water,foot good, nice color(green and blue)not bleached--healthy. So I bought him, here he is after 1 hour in my tank.

ReefReadyYouTube · Jan 25, 2020

Looks great! Keep us updated.

Fishnut · Jan 25, 2020

Nice find. My LFS only seems to get the white ones in. Good luck with that beauty

fcmatt · Jan 25, 2020

Yup. It looks really good. My LFS's always seem so bleached out.

JC_k · Jan 28, 2020

Nice! I recently scored two green LTA from petco for 12$ each! Convinced the lady to let me have them since they looked so bad. A few days later one is almost 10inches when opened and the other is 4-5inches. I used it as a reason to upgrade from my 10g nano to a 65 gallon rimless

old salt reefer · Feb 1, 2020

Well 1 week later and it's doing real good. It didn't like were I put it first and was out on the gravel the next morning(Sunday). After just sitting on top the gravel until Wednesday I dug a hole under the rock by where it was sitting and it was attached under that rock by that night. I fed it a little(LRS nano) Sunday and it sucked it down in 30 seconds. I've been feeding it small amounts everyday since and it eats like a pig. Going to start every other day tomorrow for a week and then every 3rd day the week after. Don't want it getting to big to quick. Here's a picture from this morning: