can i get an anemone?

alright, that all makes sense. thanks for the great opinions. so you guys are saying maybe a condy is the way to go? id be okay with that... they are photosynthetic right? only thing id be worried about is that i dont have a very deep sandbed.

 

The only problem I see with Mr. Bills reasoning is an anemone can't see as it doesn't have eyes. It cannot tell its about to have contact with other corals in the tank until it actually makes contact with them and by then it is too late. An initial sting is all it takes to kill most coral polyps. Even if the contact is brief. As we all know most leathers are extremely difficult to kill which would explain the coral in his case not dying from said contact. I myself have seen the damage that a roaming anemone can cause by these encounters and it is not pretty. For this reason as well as the possibility of it getting near an overflow or PH I personally think adding an anemone to a reef tank is a huge mistake.

 

+1. IMO its not worth the risk. Why threaten hundreds of dollars of corals?

 

thats it. im not doing it. you guys convinced me lol. I already dropped 2k+ on this tank, im not ruining it over something that can be replaced with a coral. well thanks everyone, i definitely learned something at least.

 

Exactly what I was looking for.

 

Good choice... and so did I.

 

when your tank is ready for an anemone is a topic of debate, many say 6 months, some say no earlier than a year. so i keep it safe and usually wait between 8 and 10 months before adding any anemone type creatures to my newly setup tank.

 

that was another thing i was worried about, is my tank mature enough. my tanks parameters have been stable for a very long time now, but its still going through bumps.

 

IMOI'd really listen to Mr. Bill and Vinny on this. If you're even questioning if your tank is mature enough, it's not! I'd wait at least a year, get some harder corals, try your luck with them, and then when you realize the amount of work and time it takes to keep something like that, add it then. Always slowly add difficulty to your tank. Imagine how ticked you'll be to come home with the thing shredded, dead, and killing your tank.

 

ive already listened im not doing it