当我们被问到哪个海葵推荐用于礁石水族箱的东西很简单 - 100％红色气泡尖端的海葵。我们在许多鱼类商店工作，当人们第一次想要梦想的人时，, a pair of Clownfish in an anemone. For years it has been a big no-no as it inevitably will end in failure but now such is the hardiness, and prolific nature of red bubble tips, we think it would actually be difficult for some to get their care wrong. And there’s a whole world of difference between captive propagated bubble tips and other species that have been wild-collected.
The Bubble tip anemone, Entacmaea quadricolor,属于actiniidae家族，来自印度太平洋和红海。它的直径不到12英寸，由于其粉红色和红色变化以及散发出的灯泡状触手而流行，因此很受欢迎。气泡本身是水族馆中有趣的争论点，因为许多圈养的气泡尖端几乎没有泡泡，这与海葵在野外展示数百张海葵的图片进行比较。
Some sources say that this is down to if the anemone is hosting a clownfish or not, the water depth, and the amount of light that it is exposed to, with those in shallow, brightly lit natural waters exhibiting the most bubbles and those in dimly lit water exhibiting none, with long, more usual looking tentacles instead. If this is true then most of us are keeping our “nems” in dimly lit aquaria by comparison, as few Bubble tips display many bubbles in the aquarium. But that doesn’t stop them from thriving.
Wild green Bubble tip anemones are available and are inexpensive and fairly straightforward to keep. Wild red bubble tips are sometimes available too but are expensive in comparison to those available in shops via local “breeders.” WIld Entacmaea Quadricolor仍然容易保留比任何异骨属。stichodactyla spp（应该避免使用大多数），但是来自其他Reefer坦克的圈养繁殖标本非常容易，就像一些初学者珊瑚一样容易保留。
Aquarium care
It should go without saying that every coral or anemone requires the same temperature, salinity, alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium as natural seawater, but captive bubble tips seem less fussy about nitrate levels. Any reef spec LED light over 40 watts is fine to illuminate them and royal blue LEDs really make them pop. Look out for color variants with rainbow colors in their center. Twenty times turnover should be good for them and with that light and flow, most are happy in the center ground of the aquarium. That’s a par reading of about 150-200.
The old adage is that if an anemone “walks” around the aquarium, it isn’t happy with either light, flow, or both, although Red Bubble tips rarely if ever walk, and that can be down to where you place them in the first place. All anemones need somewhere secretive to put their foot and retract into if threatened by a predator. For bubble tips, this can be a crevice or small cave in some rocks, and sometimes they will even choose a rear-facing location and then poke through a gap in the rocks to get to the light. If it can’t protect its foot and itself, that is more likely to make it walk than inadequate flow or light.
我们选择想要泡泡尖端的位置，将它们放在那个地方约10分钟，并且在过去的10年左右的时间里，它们完全留在了我们放置在多个坦克中的地方。我们甚至将它们放在其他珊瑚面前，以便他们走路，他们不会破坏他们的道路上的每个珊瑚。让他们安顿下来并快乐，然后将珊瑚完全放置在完全延伸时至少两英寸的范围内，它们可以容纳礁石居民。
Reproduction
许多红色泡沫尖端所有者的问题不是使他们活着，这是他们繁殖时该做什么。在水族馆中，最常见的繁殖形式是无性恋，它们在24小时的过程中分裂了，您的一个气泡尖端变成了两个。尽管我们知道许多从未有意识地给碘给碘的泡沫所有者并产生了数十个克隆，但人们认为这会发生更多的事情。
有时他们可能保持两个或三个但在索姆e aquariums, they may become 12 or more and we recently saw our LFS rehome about 100 from one standard-sized reef aquarium. It turned into a nem tank. The best part is though that stores do take them in, offering small sums in exchange, but those super hardy tank-propagated nems go on to the next person and so on. There should be no need for wild ones.
Feeding
We never purposefully feed our bubble tip anemones anything, presuming that they are taking much of their energy from their zooxanthellae instead. They are accomplished at capturing frozen foods like artemia from the water column or if they are hosting a clownfish, the clown will feed it for you. Feeding whole fish is unnecessary and should be avoided.
Clownfish partners
E.Quadricolor确实是野外诱人的主人，主持人14 species of clownfish包括A.Clarkii，Frenatus，Melanopus，Ocellaris和Premnas Biaculeatus，现在是Amphiprion Biaculeatus。但是，这六个物种中有五种可以捍卫宿主，因此可以提防。我们被咬了很多次。
颜色变形
气泡尖塔的颜色可能是高度变化的，因此值得在蓝光下寻找更多不寻常的颜色。正如我们之前所说，在某些中心可以看到彩虹色，而另一些则可能会变成明亮的粉红色，阳光橙色或红色，黄色和绿色。
