Think my bubble tip is dying :-( need help im a noob

[Bill S]

As noted before, I've had the same RBTAs for at least 6 years. They've split many, many times, and there are tons of MAASTards with my clones.

I currently have 2 in a 6 gallon nano (don't try this at home), along with some LPS and 2 clowns. They split about every 6 months or so, and do very, very well. They are under a 75w MH, but I've kept them successfully under T5s as well - and of course for the few years I had my 215 as a reef tank.

These anemones are VERY happy, and eat very infrequently. They only get what the fish get - that's all. For at least the last year, the only food they have gotten is Spectrum pellets that the clowns don't manage to steal from them. I almost never target feed them. They DO depend upon photosynthesis, and as Allan says, lighting can be critical - I believe it's been critical to my success. I've not been insanely successful in much over the many years of reefkeeping - but this particular animal has been, far and away, my most successful.

[jroescher]

What Bill said...

Mine is about seven years old now. When I first started I fed mine also and had problems similar to what you are having.

The only time I feed mine is to show someone how it reacts to food, and that is rare. It has grown huge over the years. It occasionally gets some flakes or pellets.

120 gallon tank with 2 250 MH's. 10,000 or 14,000K

[Mike]

I have heard it is not a good idea to feed live freshwater fish to saltwater fish. Not nutritionally sound or something.

[rrasco]

I have heard it is not a good idea to feed live freshwater fish to saltwater fish. Not nutritionally sound or something.

I can't remember which way it was, but I heard something contrary. Either feeding FW fish to SW is okay, or SW to FW is okay. I think it was SW to FW because I was reading about feeding my Mobas live fish. It was because a FW fish is less likely to be a host candidate for SW parasites.

FWIW, I had a condy in my tank, healthy as can be, but once he started moving around and threatening my other more expensive animals I yanked him out and chunked him. He was moving closer to my corals very quickly. I have never slept as soundly as after that.