a couple questions on my new anemones!

fishkid6692

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ok well my bta that i got about 3 days ago crawled under a rock and i can barely see it. is this normal? what should i do and how much time should i give it? and second my sebae that i got 2 days ago wouldn't attach to the rock. it was 2 days and it still didn't attach. but today i got an anemone crab and it attached shortly after the crab hosted it. it also looks a lot healthier. why is this?
 
Well, that isn't alot, so maybe it's just acclimating--common. The reason they shy away from light is because in transit they are in the dark. If they are kept in low light conditions for a few days, then to put them in brighter light will result in them moving away from it initially and then slowly moving to the brighter light.

Actually, 24 watts is kinda low for a BTA. How large is your tank and how deep is your tank?
 
You have to be diligent when keeping an anemone in a nano to do water changes and test. At the most you would want to keep a BTA and a pair of smaller clowns, like ocellaris or perculas--preferably just one clown.
 
i have a bta and a few corals with a pair of black and white ocellaris clowns. i also have 2 shrimp. and then my clean up crew. i do pretty frequent water changes(once a week) and i am going to move the bta into my 37g when it gets bigger. and my water is still fine. i test it every day. o and everyone tells me not to do this but i also have a small sebae in the tank. idk what one yet but one will be moved into the 37g tank when it has fully cycled.
 
That is one crowded 14 gallon. Hopefully your BTA will last long enough to make it to the 37 gallon. Neither a sebae or BTA should be put into a newly cycled tank, but for a sebae I would say the odds are extremely poor. BTA's are tougher anemones than sebaes. Two anemones of different species in a 14 gallon is not a good idea.
 
I don't know that it would kill the fish. Perhaps another reefkeeper that has a well-established tank and the space could take something. If it means saving the animal, I would prefer to give it to someone who knows what they are doing rather than lose it. In the mean time, I would use activated carbon 24/7 and change it out weekly--along with heavy protein skimming 24/7.
 
i would get rid of one of the nems. im preared to get bashed for this but who cares, i have my BTA in my 14g biocube with the stock lighting a pair of b/w a blood shrimp and a neon dottyback along with the CUC and everyone is just peachy. you do have to stay ontop of water quality though. i never test my water, i guess through my experience over the years i have developed an awareness of the state of my water and i am disciplined enough not to skip water changes. the only reason i am on edge now is because we got kicked out of our dorms for spring break and i left my tank in my room because the RC for the building said she would feed my fish and now i think something bad happened at the school from a huge storm that hit last night. and for those of you that are going to say the nem needs a bigger tank, its going into a 75g in two months in my apartment.


fishkid, i have been following your posts lately and you remiond me alot of myself when i was younger, an inquisitive impatient kid that made alot of mistakes but i had my dad there to correct me. im not saying you are making mistakes but you should slow down and research more before you make some. one of the anemones needs to go and not into the 37g either, you need to give that tank time to settle and have pretty stable, nonfluctuating parameters.
 
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