Tube Anemone Tank!

[kkiel02]

This thread gave me the inspiration to get my purple tube anemone a buddy.


The purple one is a permanent resident since he's got quite a long tube firmly attached under my base rock. I've recently decided to make some changes to the tank and had to consider his presence first and foremost. So adding a second tube anemone, I decided to put him in a pipe to prevent it becoming permanent. Applied a little heat the pipe to bend it so the mouth would face up like I wanted it too, and slid the tube anemone in.
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And... he promptly crawled out. I'd read about this pipe technique, but never heard of a tube anemone rejecting the new abode. I was worried it would stress and reject it's own little leathery tube, if that's even possible, like a feather duster. So I buried it in the sand and waited to see what would happen.

It seems to be doing well. The pink and the purple one touch tentacles all the time with no ill effects.

My orange one and me got into a fight as to where to go when I first got it. It lost its tube so I let it go where it wanted. It found its own spot and quickly grew another tube. They are quite hardy. My purple has been living pretty much without sand just fine for about 6 months now.