OP - Apologies for derailing your thread.
Impulse buys on anemones to "rescue" them rarely works in my experience. If you know what you're doing, know how to spot a healthy anemone, have meds and a QT set up that can quickly be put up, then you can get away with it. Here's the rub....how do you get the experience?
Being a geographically beautiful but remote place for the hobby can make for tough choices. Despite what one other poster stated....Stay in Montana, figure out a way to get anemones up there. I'd love to be able to retire up to Montana...but I dont think I could afford what I want up there now with the influx of money into your real-estate market up there. Be patient, develop some supply lines and find some reputable vendors who will ship semi near you. Might mean a 6 or 8 hour drive. But if it's healthy livestock, the drive is usually worth it.
Steve, thanks for chiming in!
That would make for an interesting science experiment.
It should be repeatable.
Question for you though:
I believe I've seen pictures of your tank, and you state you have multiple species of anemone in it. What species do you have in your tank in total? IS it possible that one of the many other species you have in the tank is causing the allelopathy your seeing?
Hypothesis: One of the many other species of anemone is responsible for the allelopathy, and the CSB's, and BW's are so selectively bred to attain the color combination that makes them CSB & BW that they show the effects first?
Please note - I'm not trying to be disrespectful or snarky. I find this fascinating and I dont understand it. I love anemones in an aquarium, so I'm always interested in learning more about them beyond the simple biology and habitat preferences.
To be fair, I most certainly can be snarky and sarcastic...humor is important too.
Having said all of that....
Realizing absolutely nobody is volunteering to have their ridiculously expensive E.Quad morphs dissected for a theory....
Have you (or anyone else) done any experiments with just E.quad where identical tanks are set up, and identical clones of E.quad are placed into the tanks? One a control - no carbon. One with Carbon, one with ozone, and one with ozone and carbon?
That would certainly shed some light on the issue?
