[Zanders' mom]

I never had expensive equipment, the anemone was in a 10 g, with an eclipse hood filter. The lights I used were 1 10,000k and one actinic. The key is not to overfeed, that brings up nitrates, or overstock. ONly 1 fish with the anemone, plenty of snails and a few hermies. I did not feed the anemone anything special other than brine fish. Whenever I did those targeted feedings, they would pollute the water and my anemone would die. Once I bought the bulb anemone, & put it in that tank, it lasted 3+ years & split itself 2xs. Change 10-15% of the water every 3-4 weeks.
In my 72 g, I had a protein skimmer, its the best sewer system for your tank, it will get rid of the nitrates, a GREAT investment for your tank, I had the sea clone, from petsolutions but you can purchase on ebay as well. My filter on that tank was an aquaclear 110, always go with a filter bigger than the recommended for your size tank. 3-4 power heads to move debris. There are other things that can soak up the nitrate which you can put in your filter, or in a pouch, there is biochem zorb, Renew, chemi pure, *nitrate sponge. Just sharing in case any of it helps.