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  1. Sean Dean

    Sean Dean Plankton

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    Hi,

    I'm a long time lurker on various reef forums and finally decided to join one.
    I have an aquareef 400 (worked out it actually contains 500l of water??) that has been running for a little over a year now. It's had its struggles, I never seem to keep snails alive though crabs, starfish and shrimp thrive. Lost two fish- both were my own fault nothing to do with the tank.

    Currently house:
    1 Foxface
    1 Regal tang
    2 cardinals
    1 leopard wrasse
    1 maroon clownfish
    1 mandarin goby/dragonet
    1 falco hawk fish
    assorted hermit crabs and some snails
    1 whelk
    5 nassarius snails
    1 cleaner shrimp (he ate the other three...)
    1 orange starfish (no idea species think orange marble or similar)
    1 cluster of zooanthids which are doing well
    a new pink coral which I don't know the name off but watched it grow for a year in the LFS, think its a pink finger leather coral
    There's also an emerald crab in there...somewhere but I've seen him twice I think.

    Fighting the fight against green algae (all my water is RO:DI and made at home) but I seem to be slowly winning that fight, took a step back this month as I accidentally closed the air hose to the protein skimmer.

    Now for the current reason I joined (other than to look at everyone else's posts) considering buying an anemone but I am having trouble identifying it. The LFS has said pink tipped anemone but that doesn't seem to be a specific species rather a few species also have that name. The guy who runs the place is really nice and hasn't sold me anything that I haven't requested and always takes things back if I change my mind but he has only started doing marines and isn't as knowledgeable about them as I'd like when making potentially hazardous purchases.

    I don't have photos of the anemone as it's in the shop. But it's identifying characteristics are:

    Foot approx 3 inches across
    column maybe 8 inches long
    V.long tentacles maybe 6 or 7 inches long
    Pink

    Now the closest I could find was the Giant Anemone (which also carries the name pink tipped) but if anyone has a different idea that would be great AND given the animals living in my tank how hazardous would this be to acquire?