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FAQs on Tube Anemone Identification
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A beautiful site of
Tube Anemones
Bob
Some of the Cerianthids u can find at Chek
Jawa in this link
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/chekjawa/ria/text/tubeanem.htm
<What a nice site... many good features... Will post on the Tube Anemone
FAQs part of WWM. Thank you for sending this along. Bob Fenner>
Perry
Scientific Name (Tube Anemones)
Dear Robert
I found your web
site very informative and very interesting. I have attached two jpg
files to you. One is from your web page and the another one is also a
tube anemone I bought from a local aquarium shop in Hong Kong (probably
came from Philippine or indo-pacific) Could you tell me their scientific
names?
Especially the one from your web site. Many thanks!
Yours,
Denis Ip
Aquarium enthusiast
Hong Kong
<Likely both are
Cerianthus orientalis, the most commonly imported species from the
Indo-Pacific... Cerianthus membranaceus of the Mediterranean is often
used in Europe... Bob Fenner>
Tube anemones
Greetings,
I am still cycling my tank with
live rock and recently discovered 6 baby and one rather large (over
1 inch wide) purple tube anemones attached to a piece of newly
acquired live rock. I read on your site that these anemones may
cause problems in a stocked aquarium.
<they are fascinating and
beautiful but somewhat demanding to keep (fully dependant on target
feeding by you) and VERY aggressive. A risk to fishes>
I first
attempted to extract the baby anemones with a siphon with no luck.
They are firmly anchored on the rock and retreat deep into the rock
crevices.
<indeed... you will likely damage of kill them in
trying to remove them>
I then attempted to remove them with
tweezers, again no luck. After pulling off several tentacles they
just retreat into the rock. Can you please suggest another way to
remove these types of anemones?
<I'd suggest selling the rock
with anemones to a LFS or aquarist that desires them>
They are
confined to one piece of beautiful piece of rock with large amounts
of purple encrusted algae, which I hate to throw away (cost me
65$).
<the anemones are worth far more. $12-15 each wholesale!>
Also, I was hoping that maybe I could keep just the one large tube
anemone in my fish only tank. Would you perceive this to be too
risky?
<not at all with large bodies fishes (tangs, angels,
wrasses). They are really quite beautiful! Perfect for a fed/high
nutrient fish only tank. Give strong water movement so that the
tentacles are always whisking about and please feed a small amount
of finely minced meaty foods almost daily (for convenience to keep
food away from fishes... take a slurry of minced ocean meats in some
saltwater and feed through a long plastic tube... say1/2 inch dia.)>
Thanks for your great site and all your help.
Jeff
<best
regards, Anthony>Re: Tube anemones: actually Aiptasia
Anthony, I do not believe these are fan worms as they definitely
have tentacles. I have sent 3 emails due to size of the pics. 2 pics
are of the large anemone (2.5 inches from base of tube to tip of
tentacles) and one pic contains a few of the babies. I have a total
of 8 babies and one adult on a few different pieces of rock now.
Sorry for the large/multiple attachments. Can you confirm this
species by these pictures? Thanks, Jeff
<thank you for the
pics... the Cnidarian photographed is clearly one of the nuisance
Aiptasia species (glass anemones). There are literally thousands of
pages of reference on the Internet about eradicating this animal if
it becomes a plague. Rest assured it only becomes a plague in
overfed or overstocked tanks (lack of nutrient control... skimming,
water changes, water flow, etc). Else... they will not divide, breed
or flourish. Do a keyword search on Google for WWM and beyond to
learn more about Aiptasia. Best regards, Anthony> Re: Tube
anemones: actually Aiptasia
Anthony,
<Steven Pro here this
morning.>
Sorry for being such a pest. I don't believe you ever
received this pic though. This pic shows the large anemone's tube
more clearly. Again, he's about 2.5-3 inches long. The tube is about
1.5 inches long. Do you still think this is a glass anemone?
<Absolutely an Aiptasia>
I thought for sure this guy was a tube
anemone. As always, thank you very much for your help. Jeff
<Have
a nice day. -Steven Pro> Re: Tube anemones
Thanks
for the prompt reply. Today I noticed several more of these baby
tube anemones on various other pieces of rock. They seem to be
spawning quite rapidly.
<are you sure these are Tube anemones
(Cerianthus species... see pictures) and not simply Serpulid fan
worms? The fanworms/feather dusters are so common. The presence of
one tube anemone is rare... reproduction is essentially unheard of>
I have read the articles regarding the use of Peppermint shrimp and
Copperband butterflies to eradicate Aiptasia. Are there any known
creatures that will prey on tube anemones?
<Nudibranchs>
Thanks once again, Jeff
<kindly, Anthony> |
A Curious Find, Tube Anemone - 03/12/07
Greetings!
<Salutations! Mich with you today.>
I recently
purchased a small piece of live rock that had a tube anemone skeleton on
it. After I put the rock in my tank and examined it, I saw a small fan
that was electric blue when I looked at it from the bottom up and from
the top down it was electric green. As I continued to watch, some of
its tentacles changed to red and purple and yellow. It was so cool
because it looked as if it was producing its own light and could glow in
the dark.
<Neat!>
My guess is that it's a
small tube anemone, but I'd like to know its name and how to care for
it.
<Could be an Arachnanthus, Cerianthus or
Pachycerianthus spp. More info here: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tubeanem.htm >
Will it grow large enough for me to not have to search for it whenever I
want to see its "lights"?
<Possibly, but do be careful if it
does. They can pack a powerful sting and are quite capable of killing
other livestock. Hope that helps, Mich>
Baby Tube Anemones? ID Polychaete Worms 10/2/07
<Greetings
random aquarist with poor punctuation, Mich here capitalizing your
"i"s>
I have a 60-gallon with a tube anemone in it...
<And
hopefully not too much else as these beauties can pack a powerful
sting.>
about 6 months or so, it
started spewing out eggs. I
have video that I took of it. It was spewing out little purple eggs
that some of the fish were eating... in my 20-gallon tank
where
I have another tube anemone, that one started spewing out what
looked like sperm. Looked like it was shooting out white milky
looking substance into the water.
<OK.>
Anyways..... my 60
gallon now, the one that had eggs shooting in it... there are those
little tubes you see in the pics, they have a single looking worm
coming out of them. And they are starting to show up everywhere on
the rocks and sand.
I have not added any rocks in over a year in
my tank. I'm wondering what these little tubed worms are? Probably
something common and not what
I'm thinking.. but what are they?
<Is a Polychaete worm, perhaps a Terebellidae, Sabellaridae or
Sabellidae species. Hard to tell by just looking at the tubes, but I
suspect something along the lines of a spaghetti worm though some
type of feather duster may also be a possibility. Likely something
similar to the ciliated feeder seen here:
http://www.dtplankton.com/images/figure02.jpg
and will anything
take care of them from spreading so much?
<They are harmless
filter feeders. I would not discourage their spread. But many
wrasses will nip at these.>
Thanks.
<Welcome, next time please
capitalize your "i"s and the first word of each sentence. Mich> | 
Nope!
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