Rose anenome issue

Ok I have a friend with an issue of overpopulating rose anenomes I know this sounds stupid but their splitting really often (once a month at this point) he has 14 of them in a 150g tank and their all staying in the same patch of rockwork, some of them being pushed to the undersides of the rock so their not getting enough light, We get the bright idea to move some of them to another tank he has (he has 4 all 150g+) the tank has good lighting and parms though i dont remember them off the top of my head, weird thing is none of th e anenome's we put in there will live more than a month for some reason.

Any idea's on this at all?

I'm going up there tonight to pull the 1 live anenome out of that tank and bring it back to my place I have my nano up and running but havent gotten my LR yet so I'm hoping the 10lbs of rubble I have in it on the 25lbs of LS will be enough for it for a few days, at this point I think anything is better than where it is.

 

i would let your tank settle for a while before putting anemone in, they are quite sensitive :-/

 

When I moved my first rose tipped bta from its original spot, it did horrible and died within a month....

 

What is 'good light'?

J

 

8x T6 he has about 200# LR in this thing and it's about 1/2 covered in GSP the only things in the tank are small cleanup crew, pretty good size panther grouper and dogface puffer (both around 1 foot long) and the GSP and rose

 

Just a thought, maybe its a flow issue or the lack of.

 

ya know i didnt even think about the flow, i'll see if he has some extra powerheads laying around cause if memory serves me right he has 1x maxijet 1200 in the display and thats it besides the single return from the sump

 

Stray voltage?

 

I'll have him check for that also, Thanks for the ideas guys/gals.

Also quick question on these, my new 24g nano has 2x 36w 10k 50/50 PC's over it, that enough to keep an anenome alive? LFS said it'd work for some but not others, guessing it's probably all up to making sure the anenome has plenty of places to try to get comfy?

 

YES INDEED>>>>> I had a bta in my 12 gallon nano dx with 48 watts.. Here's a couple of pics........

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