Ok, I will start:
Bubbletip Anemones - Bill, Bill Junior and Ben
Powerheads, Anemone killers. Before you buy your nem, you need to do some DIY
I borrowed this idea from another reefer
he does know!
However they are tunze powerheads and I had Koralias. To be honest they were a pain in the butt, but useful whilst the nems found where they wanted to live in the five footer. I haven't used them in a long while as the Nems rarely move more than an inch or so on their bommie. If you get the lving conditions right they don't move far from where you put them.
Another way of nem proofing: - you could just put a pair of tights over the powerhead until the nem settles. If I was doing it again, I would buy loads of those cheap pop socks things and then just change it every day and throw the old one away, its too much of a fuss to wash them out every time!!
I was very worried about touching Bill when I first got him, but now I know that this isn't a problem. When I first put Bill in the five footer he went on to the glass, so i just took a fish slice (don't laugh), slid it under his foot and put him back on the rock - he started to float, so I put my hand over him and shouted for a collander
I put that over him for a few minutes to keep him in place whilst he put his foot down.
Must admit Bill caused me a lot of stress in the Orca 550 when I first got him, I was just so very scared he would move into a powerhead, just like Trods did
However he flourished in there and never moved once he found his favourite place. He is the biggest reason I bought the five footer, he was getting to about 10 inches!
BTA don't like direct flow, or a lot of flow and they also don't seem to need a lot of light which is just as well because i only have T5s.
I feed them once a week with frozen little fish, occassionaly a prawn - they always take the food
I just place the small fish in their tentacles and they then move the fish into their mouths. A few days later they hide in their cave and do a poop. They fold in on themselves, scared the life out of me when I first saw Bill do it and then they poop out their mouths a long stringy line of gunk. I believe they also turn themselves inside out when they are first introduced into the tank - Bill the Green did but Ben the Rose didn't.
I would create a cave (with a lip at the front if possible) with rocks on top and then place him carefully in the cave.
Hosting: my clowns have only just started hosting the nems. They loved my toadstool, but since I moved the toadstool he has fallen out of favour, the nems didn't like him sulking!!
I put Bill in the Orca about six months after set-up, then in the five footer about six months after that (please don't put a nem in a tank any younger). I moved all the stock over to the five footer, plus the lr I had in the 180 litre. Ben the Rose came along fairly swiftly, but I was happy to put them both in what seems a new set-up but which was really just a new tank with old contents, if you get my drift
I now have three nems as Bill split and gave me Bill junior
that was a lovely surprise
Seffie x