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Originally Posted by daddio

I have had my bubble tip for around 6 years now. It is huge and I hope happy. It is host to a big old maroon clown. It has been sucked into powerheads, caused rockwork collapses, eaten several firefish - and still it is a source of enjoyment in the tank. I can't believe it has survived my ignorance for the first few years of its life in my tank.

The only time that it ever gets the bulbed tips is when something tragic has happened (see above). For years, I never really directly fed it. I have been starting to feed it silversides twice a week just to see if it would get the bulbed tips, but it seems like the tentacles are getting even longer (some are easily 5" long). It looks more like a long tentacled anemone.

It is in a 75 gallon tank with a 38 gallon sump/refugium and an ASM skimmer. Outer Orbit light fixture (two 150 watt 10,000K MH and two 130 watt actinic PCs). My water quality has been stable for at least a couple of years. pH8.3, Sg 1.023, Ca 420, Alk 8.2, all other untraceable.

I am not going to drastically change anything but was wondering if anyone else has had an experience like this. It does look really cool when the tips are bulbed (and takes up less room).

I don't see any pictures