When is the soonest you can add a bubble tip anemone?

[jtf74]

Thats yours. You cant use your experience and claim thats how they all act.

Thats yours. You cant use your experience and claim thats how they all act.

All I was saying was that there is no guarantee with an ocellaris. Nowhere did I use the word "all" . Its not unheard of.

 

[Naekuh]

Thats yours. You cant use your experience and claim thats how they all act.

im sorry but isn't that what your doing as well?

The BTA is not the native anem for Occellaris, and i know many that have never hosted a BTA and preferred to host a coral.

There is nothing wrong with @jtf74 statement.

He mearly stated facts, that its not the native anem... and there are chances it will never host it, which again is correct.


@Coldramen777

Clowns do not NEED an anem. and under most conditions, unless you know what your getting into, anem's bring a whole bunch of other problems into play, like being a moving wake of death and disaster, to possibly nuking your entire tank if they get stuck in a power head, or rotting your tank, if they die and your tank is not large.

Clowns will also host a lot of funny things, and may ignore the anem and host the funny things instead.
For example, mine hosted my wave maker for the longest time, then moved to my euphyllia, then finally settled on a duncan.

It completely ignored my rainbow BTA, up the the day i got rid of it, because again anem's bring a whole bunch of other issues you need to either accept or adapt, and my duncan does more then a good job at being host to the clowns.

So if you do get a nem, please don't go in with large expectations, and don't think your clowns NEED it.
Do it because you want the nem, as some of them are super pretty like the CSB, and rainbow, and because you want one.

 

[jabberwock]

You can add a BTA first, before you even add water. But that may not be a good idea...

 

[Sharkbait19]

For anemones it’s all about nutrients. People often say “if you can keep so-and-so coral, you can keep an anemone”, which often works as a decent benchmark, but it really comes down to having stable water chemistry, especially when it comes to having enough nutrients to keep an anemone sustained. The reason the first few months can be tricky is mainly because it takes some time for there to be a sufficient amount of food in the tank for an anemone to live off of. Otherwise you’d have to be feeding it nonstop, and even then it is likely to shrivel up and die. That said, I think the question of when you can keep an anemone might vary on a case-by-case basis. It is very important to have a mature system, mostly so the anemone stays well fed. In my experience they’re much more tolerant of most parameter swings than SPS corals or other similar-level organisms, and often do fine during tank crashes (unlike corals, which IME are much more sensitive), as long as there remain enough food in the water column for them to thrive off of.