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what is the hardiest anemone?


how hardy is a condy?

thanks in advance

i have a condy in a 50 gallon with reguler florecent light and it seems to be doing excelent...ide say they are very hardy

Condys I belive are the most hardy.

Dan


Dan

Sorry for the dumb question, but condy is short for...?

Condy is a type of anemone, just like carpet, or sebea.

Dan


Dan

condy anenomies are also called condylactus...sorry about the spelling

eeill condys allways be the nice white with purple tips or will the turn that brownish color?

what hardy anemone would be good for a pair of false percs

my condy is always white with nice purple tips, i had a perc. clown and it never went into the condy. certain clowns are for certain anenomies.

In the wild, most clowns have specific anemones they will live in. In the tank however, many will go to multiple types of anemones. It is an individual thing. Another thing to take into account is tank bred specimens. Many of these will never go into any anemone. Also, some will even live in different other type corals as well, like frog spawn, torch, and hammers. As well as others too.

As for the easiest, IMO, that would be the bubble tip anemone. Probably the lowest lighting requirements and easiest to acclimate to an aquarium.

The better question though, would be to ask which do best under what kind of lighting you have or will be getting. As they have lighting requirements. Some, like the carpets will have very high lighting requirements.

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To my knowlage, no clown will host with a condy. You will need to match the anemone type with the clown to get it to host. And even then, it may not host.

Dan


Dan

To my knowlage, no clown will host with a condy

In nature, this is true. But in the aquarium, they many times will. As the different clowns can/and will many times adapt to different species of anemones, other than those they are found living in, in nature.

The thing is, with the Condy and clowns, is that the Condy is an Atlantic species of anemone, and well, there are not Atlantic species of clowns. So it would not be natural to assume any clowns live in them in nature, or the wild. But, I have seen on several different occasions, a few different species of clowns with their homes being Condys. These have included the tomato clown, firered clown, and false percs.

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i have no real lighting requirements,whatevers best for the anemone really.

i wouldnt mind it having a blue tint though

If lighting is no problem for you, get a/some MHs. 1400K IMO give the best lighting, and have a nice blue to them.

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