Anyone have a Condylactis anenome in their Reef?

[Psyire]

I'm curious as to who has had success (or not) with a Condylactis in their reef?

[tidepoole]

I tried doing that before i knew what i was doing (read as: "before i found RC!!) i just hope you dont have coral or fish in your reef. good luck.

peace,
jpoole

p.s.
by "good luck", i mean dont do it, and if you did, rip it out now, cut your losses and keep on reefing.

[Psyire]

What happened?

[waterfaller1]

They can sting your corals and eat your fish.:(

[anndonnie]

I have three candylactus! I believe two different kinds. The one big one - more white - is very active, and we love watching him. He has never harmed our fish or finger coral, and in fact, he and the flower anemone I think are in love. The other two brownish/purple candylactus are so exciting. They just eat and go back into a pod. No personality at all! I don't know what kind of fish they eat, but we feed our's pieces of krill everyother day.

[bigredwalk]

I have had a condylactus in my tank a year and love watching it I feed it once a week he has not harmed my zoos or mushrooms my fish stay away from him but my lfs did say I should have some kind of night light when I bought it
:)

[Psyire]

Thanks for the info guys.

Has anyone actually had one eat their fish? I can see the stinging corals part, but eating your fish? What fish have these guys ate?

[Psyire]

Here is the Condy in question:

(his disk is around 1.5" in diameter)

http://www.playhardrc.com/misc/aquarium/180Condy1s.jpg

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

nice close-up...

[Rhas]

MIne is huge and it hasnt stung or eaten anyone.... like powerheads though :)

[Salamander]

My wife bought one for a surprise gift early in my reefing experience. I tried it for while (I couldn't just give it up right away w/o getting her Po'd) but that was a mistake! It moved several times and stung the heck of several corals and almost killed one or two. Took them awhile to recover, but luckily they did. Its a risk of losing expensive corals for a $4 dollar anemone. I'd advise against it overall.

[Psyire]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6766755#post6766755 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rhas
MIne is huge and it hasnt stung or eaten anyone.... like powerheads though :)

Do you have any pictures?

[Psyire]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6767221#post6767221 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Salamander
My wife bought one for a surprise gift early in my reefing experience. I tried it for while (I couldn't just give it up right away w/o getting her Po'd) but that was a mistake! It moved several times and stung the heck of several corals and almost killed one or two. Took them awhile to recover, but luckily they did. Its a risk of losing expensive corals for a $4 dollar anemone. I'd advise against it overall.

If mine moves around that much he'll have to be removed, but I'm hoping he'll stay put. I'm more worried about him eating my fish. However it almost sounds like more of a myth?

[Puffdragon]

I don't think condy's get that big, however if they do, the fish eating could and does happen, Ionce lost a 4" hippo tang to
a carpet, they are known to eat fish.

[Satori]

Here's a couple pics of a condy I had in my tank for about two years, up until last week. It never moved, and never ate any fish. The reason I took it out is because I wanted that real estate for corals. :)

http://mike.magnuson.com/condy1.jpg
http://mike.magnuson.com/condy.jpg

[Psyire]

That's a nice aneome and good news. I see some zoa's beside it, were they fine side x side?

[AquaReeferMan]

Its not just a Condy but you have to worry about any anemone eating a fish. My carpet and my BTA have both eaten cleaner wrasses along with any hermits or snails that get to close.

[Satori]

No, the zoos didn't like it at all. Anytime the current blew the tentacles over that way, the condy would latch on to the zoos and they would stay closed for days. For whatever reason, they kept growing in that direction though...

It did eat a coral banded shrimp once. I just got it, acclimated it, dumped it in, and it shot straight into the anemone. Lasted about 1/2 second in the tank.

[YoungReefer06]

I have heard of them regularly eating mandrian fish and the like, fish tha skip along the bottom.

[clkwrk]

I had one for almost 2 years it grew from an itty bitty to this
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/clkwrk/Saltwater%20pics/clown-and-her-host.jpg

It did well until I switched from having sand to not . IMO it didn't like the change but my sps did.

[BigReefing]

dont all anenomes run the risk of hurting your coral, or did I miss something.

[Psyire]

Strange.

My Sexy Shrimp loves this thing, it hangs out around it all the time now that it found it. I wonder if it'll disappear...

[racrumrine]

There are 2 types of shrimp that like to live in them.

I've had mine over a year. When it moves around, it stings and bothers other corals and the clownfish won't host in it.

However, it's pretty nice to look at.

Best of luck,

Roy

[AquaReeferMan]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6768474#post6768474 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BigReefing
dont all anenomes run the risk of hurting your coral, or did I miss something.


No you didnt miss anything, you shouldnt have any anemone touching your coral.

[thereefmaster]

I have never had a problem w/ mine.

-Nate

[travisurfer]

does anyone else have one hosting a clown?

[fgarvine]

will kill anything getting into those arms. Dont trust them with anything. Good cycler, thats all. You will be going along fine and WHAM, there goes the dragonette, blue legged hc's and snails too. My experience years ago

[sean48183]

The petco by my house has a 90g display reef set up with a tomato hosting a condy. The tomato is snuggled right up inside its tenacles. I believe tomato's will host anything though.

It does seem that they need alot of light though because when I was snorkeling in the bahamas these dudes were in shallow water where the sun was pounding them. I mean some in even like 1' or less. Probably why their so cheap because there easy to catch.