whitling@andromeda.UUCP (12/05/87)
In article <4406@ihlpg.ATT.COM> dalka@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Ken Dalka) writes: >> >> [remark about what anemones eat] >> >This is a important question for me. I have not kept anemonies >but intend to try in the future so I have been trying to ask >questions. I've been told 2 things: > > 1) they are difficult to keep alive for more than 3 or 4 months > in a non-reef tank system where you are using standard filters. > This may be true of some types of anemones, but I have one which is over a year old, has been moved all over northern New Jersey, and has even existed in a tank system with *no* outside power filter for a number of months. This was a Singapore anemone, it was well cared for by a clown. > 2) they are BOTH filter feeders and accept lumps of food and > should be given both. > This seems to be true. Mine have been known to eat goldfish, guppies, chunks of clam. They also eat some of the brine shrimp which I often feed the fish. We used filter food for a while, but the anemone didn't seem to profit from it. >Anemonies are a broad class of invertebrates so I guess Ill say I'd >like to keep the kind that clowns love to cuddle up in (carpet anemonies?). >Anybody wish to comment? >-- These kind are usually referred to as Pacific anemones. I also have an Atlantic anemone which is a lot more interesting because it moves all over the tank and climbs up the walls and such. My clown doesn't much like it though. > > Ken Dalka (Bell Labs) > ihnp4!ihlpg!dalka > IE 2F-518 (312) 416-7437 Donna Whitlinger Rutgers University Newark, NJ