I dont want to sound dumb

[SpimerYT]

This is just a "nostupidquestions" I repeat (won't do regardless of answers) but if some octopus live in the reefs. (My personal favorite *Day octopus* (If you read my posts) and they are around corals and anemones and get stung and all that, why aren't anemones safe? They are mostly wild caught besides so once in a lifetime thing. So why can't they be exposed to the stuff they saw in the wild? Edit: shouldn't they have the instinct to not mess with something? Also we need more recognition of the day octopus .

 

[tonmo]

Hi @SpimerYT -- I think it depends on the type of anemone -- some may be problematic. And, in a tank environment, there's not a lot of room to ignore, and it's not hard to imagine that an octopus' natural instincts can easily be compromised in a tank.

Lots of discussions in our forums on such tankmates; here's a good one:

Discovered Small Clear Anemone In Tank

I don't have a reef tank (just argonite substrate some fake plants and a few cuttlefish - s. officinalis in the tank) and there has never been a live rock placed in the tank in question, although it is possible that there might have been cross contamination from another tank I have that does...

tonmo.com

As @Tintenfisch would say, with fronds like that, who needs anemones?

 

[tonmo]

Hi @SpimerYT -- I think it depends on the type of anemone -- some may be problematic. And, in a tank environment, there's not a lot of room to ignore, and it's not hard to imagine that an octopus' natural instincts can easily be compromised in a tank.

Lots of discussions in our forums on such tankmates; here's a good one:

Discovered Small Clear Anemone In Tank

I don't have a reef tank (just argonite substrate some fake plants and a few cuttlefish - s. officinalis in the tank) and there has never been a live rock placed in the tank in question, although it is possible that there might have been cross contamination from another tank I have that does...

tonmo.com

As @Tintenfisch would say, with fronds like that, who needs anemones?