is Actinia equina safe with hermit crabs and turbo snails ?

[rothwell]

Have 120 litre fowlr tank with inverts - 3 turbos,cleanershrimp,2 hermits. Just ordered 3 actinia equina just wondering if everyone will be eaten !

 

[ccCapt]

Not unless they climb inside it, but even then the anemone is probably too small to do anything.

 

[Bige]

Someone must have gotten a shippment of these because a couple people have asked about them. They are mini-anemones. They ususally ship at sizes between 1cm-3cm. Very small. Their attraction is that when they split the new anemone might be a different color and then becoming a colony. I think they are too small to hurt anything unless like the capt said it crawls in its mouth.

 

[cmor1701d]

They're going for a pound (1L) on eBay in the UK. I think they may be the local UK variety which are a cold water intertidal species. Not necesarily the best animal for a tropical tank.

 

[thincat]

Totally agree with cmor, so unless you have a chiller they will more then likely not last very long in a tropical reef tank.

 

[Bige]

They like around 72 degrees but will "tolerate" 78. So a chiller would be a good idea.