My 65 gallon has been up and running for almost two weeks now. I'm starting to see a little bit of bacteria spots here and there on the dead rock, mostly around where I seeded it with live rock from my year and a half old tank, I also put bacteria in a bottle and am dosing Ammonia for another week then switching to ghost feeding for a few weeks. I know I'm a little ways away from having fish in there, next week I'm gonna put a few snails and crabs in there to help out with the bacteria growth. My question here is when do you think i could put a couple rock flower anemones in the tank if I spot feed them and work my tank around what they need for a few months? I had an idea to try and get them spawning and get a bunch to grow all over because I won't have many coral and I love the way they look. Turns out, other people had the idea a long time ago lol nonetheless, I still love the idea and really want to give it a go. If I am successful in my experiment I will only be having my two clowns, my two blue damsels, my cleaner shrimp, two fire shrimp, and maybe a tang of some sorts in the tank. I had a few ideas for other fish but I figure I'll wait and see if the anemone thing works out before I start getting serious about them.
Rock flower anemone question
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It's my understanding that anemones in general do best in a well established tank. I keep RFAs, but didn't introduce them until the tank was well over a year old. Your tank still has a lot of growing up to do. If it were me, I would wait. I'm sure someone else will chime in. I like the idea of an RFA dominant tank though.
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I have a nem only tank which has bubble tips, maxi minis, and rock flowers. They have all done well except the rock flower. I kind of chalk that up to the fact it was right next to the maxi mink and I think it stung him. It probably lasted a week or two at best.
From the research I've gathered it seems people have put them in at the pre 6 month mark as long as the primary focus of the tank is the anemone itself because it's a little more hardy of an anemone, but I also know most other anemones don't do well in slightly underdeveloped tanks. My research is split down the middle and I'm just as lost as when I started lol
Of course, I'd definitely be waiting for the tank to be running consistent numbers before adding anything other than CUC.
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Myself...id let the tank go through its uglies before i tried.algaes and cyanos are very good at killing coral.
