LTA question

[m0nk3y69d]

I got a good size LTA today and I was wondering what I schould do to help him find a spot he likes where he's not blowing around in the current all the time

 

[Tahoe61]

Do you mean the anemone is unattached?

If attached leave the anemone be unless it's in danger from wandering into power heads. An anemone will find it's own spot.

If unattached you can place the anemone in a lower flow area, place a strawberry basket it over it or take a wide diameter pvc pipe and place the base/foot in the pvc.

How deep is your sand bed, and LTA should have a nice 2 inch sand bed.

 

[m0nk3y69d]

I think It found a spot it likes last night

 

[bairdimusprime]

nice nem

 

[m0nk3y69d]

Thanks he was only 40 and I'm sure my maroon clown will love him I'm hopeing lol

 

[m0nk3y69d]

Well he was rolling around my tank again this morning what schould I do

 

[FL_Reefer]

I had the same problem. I first dug a little hole in the sand then I took some smaller rocks and tryed to wedge them around it till it so it would keep it from rolling around. Once it took hold I removed the rocks and it was good to go.

 

[m0nk3y69d]

He is so big and his foot is so big it's hard to dig a hole in the sand and get him in there because he dosent close up up any lol

 

[Ryan2428]

I can tell u from experience he will do his own thing . I tried everything to get him to plant . In the end I said ok I'm done and a week later he planted himself lol. By the way they do not like a lot of flow like other nems

 

[m0nk3y69d]

I knew that I put him in a low flow spot and he didn't stay so I'm going to let him do his thing and only move him if he's upside down

 

[croix67]

watch your maroon as i have TLA and the maroon was pulling it out of the sand bed had to remove the fish as it was really bad temperd

 

[m0nk3y69d]

My clown dosent even go near it yet lol

 

[croix67]

might take a few days for it to host

 

[m0nk3y69d]

I need the nem to stay put first lol

 

[FL_Reefer]

It will find a spot eventually and stay put. Just watch that it doesn't get into a powerhead while it's floating around looking for its new home.

 

[m0nk3y69d]

Yeah I'm watching him and he is just rolling around the front of the tank on his side

 

[croix67]

dig a hole down to bottom of the tank and place the nem in the hole and turn flow down and it should latch on to bottom o tank this all i did not moved in 3 weeks slowy turn flow back up

 

[m0nk3y69d]

Has has found himself a spot that he likes but he is in a cave and is giting no light and the door has turned white what schould I do now

 

[KorD]

DOnt do anything with it... when it is ready it will come out and roam around again.

I have 2 LTA's... One stays put on the glass of the front bottom corner where there is very little to no flow, and the other one roamed all the way to the top of my 30 gal tank into the full flow of the return pump...LOL I do not know why, but some reason he likes it there.

My clown fish decided he would rather nest with the tuxedo urchin then the LTA I got him... stupid fishy

 

[m0nk3y69d]

Ok I will just let him do his thing my maroon has really taken a liking to him and has compleatly removed all of the sand in the cave