Carnation anemone

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  1. tinnghe

    tinnghe Purple Spiny Lobster

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    i just bought a carnation anemone and i was wondering what does it eat, since i dont really know much about them, and also my lfs have a purple linkia, i dont know i should buy it or not.
     
    tinnghe, Jan 22, 2008
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  2. amcarrig

    amcarrig Super Moderator

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    Unless your tank is a year or older, I would skip the linkia. Unless you feel like target feeding the carnation a heck of alot of phyto and zoo plankton, I would return the it. They are not at all photosynthetic and will require alot of feeding to survive.
     
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  3. ziggy222

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    carnations have a life span of 6 months to a yr in captivity.i'm sure your already seeing the 1st peices falling off.imo they should not be sold to the general public.reef central has a 20 or 30 page thread on trying to keep them alive in their advanced topic section.garf.org kept them a couple yrs in an extremely complex system consisting of like 5 tanks of filters for one small display tank but its gone now do to a over night leak.you are talking about a regular carnation coral right?cause i've never heard them being called an anemonee.are you maybe talking about a strawberry anemonee?cause those are easily kept.
     
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  4. tinnghe

    tinnghe Purple Spiny Lobster

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    they are actual call carnation anemone, they have small white testicles and orange based and they stuck to rock, i bought it for around 8 bux
     
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  5. tinnghe

    tinnghe Purple Spiny Lobster

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    [​IMG]carnation anemne
     
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    tinnghe Purple Spiny Lobster

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    [​IMG]
     
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  7. tinnghe

    tinnghe Purple Spiny Lobster

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    carnation anemone [​IMG]
     
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    tinnghe Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Camilsky Montipora Capricornis

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    hmm... it looks like a strawbery anemone to me!
     
    Camilsky, Jan 22, 2008
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  10. ziggy222

    ziggy222 Fire Goby

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    ok thats pretty cool.i've never seen one before.never heard of one either
     
    ziggy222, Jan 23, 2008
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