Bubble Tip Anemones EVERYTHING You Need to Know! | Coral Care Guide

what's going on reefers Blaine here you guys saw it on the title of this video but today we're going to be talking all about Bubble tipping enemies we're going to be heading into the farm today talking a little bit about care requirements for bubble Tipp and enemies but we're also going to be talking about some of our favorite color morphs here at the farm that we're actively [Music] one of the most iconic creatures in the ocean are clownish and one of the other creatures that gets a lot of Limelight due to clown fishes popularity is their natural host in the ocean and enemies today we're going to focus a little bit about some of the Care requirements and things you need to do to be able to properly care for one of these enemies in your home aquarium we're not going to go into a lot of details about all the different species and specifics there's all kinds of different things from seab Bays to Bubble tips but today we're going to focus on the latter and we're going to strictly talk about Bubble tiping enemies and the ones we actively aquaculture here at topshelf Aquatics bubble tips in our hobby are actively known to be a natural host for a lot of different species of clownish whether it be clarky Maroons or oseris this can be an anemy that can be a home for any of your clownish at home the symbiotic relationship to be able to see that in a home aquarium is really exciting to see when we're talking a little bit about the anatomy of an anatomy we'll keep it nice and simple but we'll talk about two aspects about them so right on the middle part of their oral disc is you're going to find their mouth so it's going to be that slit you see directly in the middle of their oral disc and then the other one that we find to be super important to talk about is the foot of the anemy so these enemies are going to have a giant foot at the bottom of them and that'll help them move around the tank so that way they can find the proper placement for themselves and where they seem to be finding the most ideal placement in the system it's important to know this because these enemies can really get moving and they can walk all over your tanks this is something to know and be able to recognize when you're getting ready to place one into your tank at home one thing we like to talk about when it comes to tips about putting an enemy into your tank right off the start is to kill your flow try to find a place in your rock workor where there's some nice crevices and they can sneak their foot into so it's really important to recognize that and remember than when adding in your an enemy that they have a foot and they'll really get moving once they try to find the proper place for themselves in your tank when it comes to lighting up your and enemies it's important to remember that these guys like a lot of light when it comes to to what we leave at par wise for our enemies across the farm we're putting them at roughly 350 par when we're talking about the Spectrum 2 we run an ab+ schedule for all of our different enemies another thing Kevin wanted me to mention was that having some white light throughout your entire schedule is really important and they definitely enjoy having some more of that natural Spectrum obviously over the course of time we've seen all kinds of different Critters change underneath our lights in the hobby whether it be metal haights the new introduction of LED a lot of things are going to change when it comes to coming from the ocean and then getting underneath our lights and enemies are no different case for that and they're going to change quite a lot they're actually going to change more so than any other creature in the hobby there's an article on Reef builders that I'll have linked down below that talks a lot about the different color morphs and the changes that we see in the hobby with our own enemies and it's really important to find a source like top shelf Aquatics that has tried and through long-term strains that have been able to hold and show the true color schemes some hobbyists will also worry and say maybe I have my an enomy in too much light one thing to remember again like I said before is they have a foot so if they're in an area that they don't seem to like they'll tend to stray away and move away from that area so don't be too worried in placing them in too high of par cuz they'll tend to move away and find a more shadowy more dimmer area that they can find home one of the biggest Hot Topics when it comes to Bubble tiping enemies is the idea or concept of being able to mix the different color mors if you go online onto the forums you're going to can see all kinds of different antidotal information whether or not it's worked or not when it comes to us here at topshelf Aquatics when it comes to our aquaculture facility we don't mix up the colors we like to keep all of them consistent but we like to say that all of our customers here at Top Shelf Aquatics that have boughten different strains and color morphs from us have seen success and there's been no issue when it comes to mixing different color morphs of bubble tip and enemies we actively aren't doing it here when it comes to aquacultures when it comes to picking them out getting them into bags and shipping them out to you but when it comes to anecdotal information from our customers and other people that we trust when it comes to information in the hobby we've seen that mixing different color morphs isn't going to be an issue but one thing to remember is maybe running a bag of carbon for any kind of chemical warfare could be a good idea a method worth mentioning when it comes to sick or hurt bubble tipping enemies comes from an old thread off Reef Central by men also known as orian n but has been shared across other saltwater platforms and has been shown in articles and different videos this is a method of treatment that utilizes cypro to help treat the enemies we won't go into great detail about this method but I thought it was worth mentioning so that way if you're in need of helping out a sick and enemy you can search for this method online we see that our aquacultured strains do not tend to need any of these treatments really ever unless a bacterial infection or wound was inflicted but more so the wild bubble tips coming in tend to need this for their survival rate to rise you can find a link to the treatment on a reef Builder article linked Down Below in the description if you have some clownish in the tank remember they may be actively feeding your an enemy as well watch next time as you feed the tank because they might be actually dragging a piece down and actively feeding your an enemy if you're heavily feeding your tank overall though be sure to check out and make sure your an enem is not actively grabbing anything out of the water column and then you'd be overfeeding them if you're giving them specific feedings but overall though it's important to make sure that your enemy is getting nice and fed one thing we hear all the time is whether or not are my enemies going to eat my fish something to remember is bubble tip en enemies are some of the least aggressive species in our aquarium trade when it comes to our bubble tiping enemies they're not going to tend to lean toward eating fish if they do eat a fish it tends to be something that's been sick or something that's already dying when it comes to carpet and enemies though those are going to be your big time Fish Eaters in the aquarium trade so overall though if you're looking at grabbing up a bubble tip don't be too concerned on whether or not it's going to be eating up your fish all right that's enough of talking about some of the Care requirements and things you need to do to be able to keep one of our bubble tipping enemies let's check out some of our faite color morphs of bubble tiping enemies in the farm one if not the most prevalent color morph in the bubble tip strains are going to be your Rainbow bubble tips these are also what we would like to consider the more aggressive of the bubble tips and they actually seem to multiply much quicker than any of the other color morphs in the bubble tip strain so when it comes to talking about the rainbow coloring we start off with the pink tips working down into the orange into a much more darker purplish oral disc really some amazing color schemes when it comes to these rainbow bubble tips but overall I'd say the most common that we actively have here at topshelf Aquatics but we have a lot more amazing color morphs in the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] farm the next color morph that we're going to be talking about is the Nexus burst bubble tip and enemy this is one that originally landed at icatching corals and when it first came to the market a lot of veterans in the Hobby and other hobbyists thought that both the color morphs weren't going to stay and there was no way that that split green and that orange was going to last Everlasting overall now they've been able to mass-produce them and they've continued to hold those two color ways it is really interesting to see though when sometimes they split away from each other they'll actively hold just a little bit of the green or a lot of the orange or a lot of the green and a little bit of the orange but it is seen that they are having both the colors stay within them we don't actively have them on our site now but if you're looking to snag up a Nexus burst an enemy let us know either us up down in the comments shoot us a message on Instagram or send over an [Music] email another color morph we wanted to mention I felt it was worthy of being on our list of some of our top strains of bubble tips is going to be our Black Widow bubble tip an enemy these are very unique I love the coloring on them when it comes to that pink is really nice red rosy red tentacles it works its way down to a darker blue oral disc and what's really unique about them is they have this really nice light blue streaking that's kind of going work throughout the oral disc and it's going to make what looks like kind of a webbing giving its nice name of Black Widow bubble tip and enemies so some really cool ones when you get them in a giant group like this as you guys can see in these two Su spaces they really can take off and they can look really nice when they get grouped up together overall though super nice coloring I like the Deep Red the Deep deep blue when it comes to the oral disc and overall I think would be a really nice addition if you're looking at snagging a bubble tip from topshelf [Music] Aquatics as we make our way around the farm and check out all the different bubble tip strains we have available we're going to talk a little bit about the Chicago bubble tip so this is the Chicago Sunburst bubble tip an enemy super cool strain I love the coloring in this one I actually have two of these on my desk tank right now currently in my little soft Coral macro algae setup and so I've added two of these little guys in one thing I really love to see in the Chicago Sunburst is the nice green streaking that you're going to see on all the tentacles they've talked a lot about the idea that these Chicago sunbursts will go through phases right so they'll have sections of time where they'll be more yellow sometimes they'll be more red I think overall it's going to be dependent on whatever light schedule you're running or how old the anomy is in general but overall the Chicago Sunburst are a very unique and enemy and I think one of the hottest ones we have here at Top Shelf [Music] Aquatics when it comes to our hottest and nicest bubble tip strain at our farm it's going to be the Colorado Sunburst in enemy these are easily one of the craziest bubble tips currently on the market and they really got the bubble tip craze going these originally came out of the key Islands from Sang Lee who brought the original one in and one thing to recognize and figure out if you're trying to know if it's an actual Colorado Sunburst or not is look at the foot the foot will have some nice marbling colors to it and if you see the marbling you know you have an actual true Colorado Sunburst in enemy overall though the colors on it the extreme oranges and the the bright yellows are really nice and the nice contrast of the greenish SL blue oral discs is out of this world so overall though easily one of the hottest and nicest strains of bubble tip and enemies in the Hobby and at Top Shelf [Music] Aquatics well it was a lot of fun once again walking around the farm and getting to talk about another one of our actively aquacultured Critters here at topshelf Aquatics I know bubble tips are a fan favorite in the hobby so being able to talk about some of the Care requirements and things like that I thought was super important to get up on the channel if you guys have some further questions or things you want to discuss drop it down in the comments below maybe we can continue this series and talk a little bit more about Bubble tips and future videos If you guys liked any of these color morphs and you want to grab one up and put it in your reef aquarium at home head over to our website now and grab up any of your an enemy needs if you guys enjoyed this video be sure to like subscribe and hit the Bell notification so you don't miss out on any future uploads