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Had to share this, I am so excited! I am still very new to the hobby and sometimes I feel like I have no idea what I am doing! Several months ago a bought a pair of VERY young false percales from a LFS. I was told because they are captive bred that they would probably never host and even though I really wished they would I resigned to that thought and went about my business. Well a few days ago I saw one of them rubbing against a small mushroom in my tank. Not really knowing, i thought it might be trying to host the mushroom so the next day I went to a LFS and bought an anemone. Again they LFS told me they didn't think my fish would host, but I got it on sale and I like the way anemones look so i figured it was worth a shot.

Well today when I came home I found this.....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzW_Z_QzZmQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrFOErmfk8k[/youtube]

YAY ME!!! Now, can someone help me? What kind of anemone is this? I was told it was a purple long tentacled anemone...

Jody!
 
Nice lta. Feed it twice a week and watch it grow. My clowns love mine too. I wish I had a purple one but I love my big lta. Feed peeled shrimp or silversides. I do not get much waste feeding peeled shrimp. Good luck
My old lta.
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Thank you so much for the feedback. I have been researching what to feed and how often. Your help is greatly appreciated. My clowns are loving this anemone, I gotta keep it alive for them!
 
With proper lighting there is no need to feed the nem. The clowns may actully start feeding it too.
 
@ss95003 wrote:
With proper lighting there is no need to feed the nem. The clowns may actully start feeding it too. said:
Likely true but feeding is easy and interesting so why not? I was told the same thing and obviously my lighting wasn't adequate as my nem started shrinking until I started feeding it. The tentacles got really stubby and short. I was told when I bought it I shouldn't have to feed it "no one in the wild goes in and feeds them" Seemed to make sense. Then when it started shrinking I adopted the theory "if it has a mouth it needs to be fed". That one makes more sense to me since we are not in the wild, we are in a contained environment.
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