What is the smallest long tenticaled anemone out there?

sikpupy · 05/16/2009, 10:43 PM

Not sure how one would figure this one out, but, trying to find an anemone no bigger in diameter of.......oh.....say..... a golf ball? Not sure if there is anything that small that has long tenticals.

ludnix · 05/16/2009, 10:48 PM

Maybe a tube anemone, but they are supposedly a risk for fish and will require manual feedings.

Toddrtrex · 05/17/2009, 01:09 AM

No hosting anemone will stay that small.

sikpupy · 05/17/2009, 06:27 PM

Whats the next size up then?

redfishsc · 05/17/2009, 07:56 PM

Although it's not an anemone, a Duncan coral looks just like one. Also has the added benefit of being pretty hardy and quite beautiful.

Each individual polyp will spread out about the diameter of a golf ball when fully grown. I bought one 6 months ago (one polyp) and I now have one "mature" head surrounded by 8 smaller heads. Still somewhere in between the size of a golf ball and tennis ball.

Also, they don't inflate nearly as much as an anemone could-- they are more limited by their skeletal structure.

douglam · 05/17/2009, 08:12 PM

the smallest LTA that you will find would probably be a split off or an already pretty small LTA.

Agu · 05/17/2009, 08:23 PM

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Originally posted by redfishsc
Although it's not an anemone, a Duncan coral looks just like one. Also has the added benefit of being pretty hardy and quite beautiful.

Each individual polyp will spread out about the diameter of a golf ball when fully grown. I bought one 6 months ago (one polyp) and I now have one "mature" head surrounded by 8 smaller heads. Still somewhere in between the size of a golf ball and tennis ball.

Also, they don't inflate nearly as much as an anemone could-- they are more limited by their skeletal structure.

Duncan coral

Toddrtrex · 05/17/2009, 08:24 PM

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Originally posted by douglam
the smallest LTA that you will find would probably be a split off or an already pretty small LTA.

Did you mean BTA? LTAs don't split, BTAs do.

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Originally posted by sikpupy
Whats the next size up then?

I wouldn't say that there is a next size up for hosting anemones. The one that tends to stay the smallest -- BTA -- still can get fairly large. The last BTA that I had was over 15" across when I sold it, and it still split often.

fufu · 05/17/2009, 08:25 PM

Curly Q Anemone, Aiptasia, Mojanos...

sikpupy · 05/18/2009, 07:11 AM

Thanks for the feedback all.

Darn, seems they all get to big

, Hmmm....... What to do what to do...... The Duncan coral might have a shot in my tank.

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Originally posted by fufu
Aiptasia, Mojanos...

Ooooooooooh, yea, I wants me some of those

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redfishsc Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 3,696	Although it's not an anemone, a Duncan coral looks just like one. Also has the added benefit of being pretty hardy and quite beautiful. Each individual polyp will spread out about the diameter of a golf ball when fully grown. I bought one 6 months ago (one polyp) and I now have one "mature" head surrounded by 8 smaller heads. Still somewhere in between the size of a golf ball and tennis ball. Also, they don't inflate nearly as much as an anemone could-- they are more limited by their skeletal structure. __________________ "The measure of a life is not its duration but its donation." Corrie Ten Boom “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins” -- Søren Kierkegaard Current Tank Info: ghetto grad school reef.....11g rimless tank, 36X9X9, lit by Cree and Rebels scobbled together. Stocked mostly with free stuff I got from panhandling my fellow reefers.

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douglam Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Saint Petersburg, FL Posts: 867	the smallest LTA that you will find would probably be a split off or an already pretty small LTA.

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