StupidsReef
Premium Member
I bought a Purple tipped Sebae Anemone last weekend. And I'm not sure if it's doing well or not.
It's in a 90g RR w/55g sump.
Lighting is a Aqua lunar power compact w/ 2 65 watt 10,000 k (there is 2 bulbs per socket which makes 4 total) and 2 65 watt Actinic 3( again there is 2 bulbs per socket making 4 total bulbs).
Mag 12 from sump to main tank. No other power heads at this time. That's the only water movement.
ASM skimmer G3 in the sump. (working better than I could have ever asked)
75 Lbs of live rock I've had for a little over a year, and 60 Lbs of base rock from Hirocks which has only been in the tank for a week and a half now.
Sand bed is a good 3 inches is most of the tank, some area's only 1 inch.
When I brought this anemone home I acclimated by drip method for 3 hours, scooping out the water as the bag became full. For the first 2 days it did just fine. I had placed it in the middle of the tank height wise on a piece of LR in a hole under pretty good water movement. But on the third day when I woke up it was not there. It was located farther down on another rock on it's side. So I moved it back up. When I came home I found it up side down on the sand bed. So I move it up on the lower rocks. Again later that night I found it back on the sand bed again! I left it be on the sand bed. It has been eating silver sides during this time always ready to take them. Is it normal for them to move or am I placing it in to strong of a current? And is it normal in the morning for it to be shrunk up when I turn the lights on? It does open up and extend it tips which are then thick and fairly bubbled after about 30 min to an hour. I know these things die very slowly and I don't want that to happen. Are there any signs they give when something is wrong?
Everything else I have is doing just fine.
Thanks in advance.
It's in a 90g RR w/55g sump.
Lighting is a Aqua lunar power compact w/ 2 65 watt 10,000 k (there is 2 bulbs per socket which makes 4 total) and 2 65 watt Actinic 3( again there is 2 bulbs per socket making 4 total bulbs).
Mag 12 from sump to main tank. No other power heads at this time. That's the only water movement.
ASM skimmer G3 in the sump. (working better than I could have ever asked)
75 Lbs of live rock I've had for a little over a year, and 60 Lbs of base rock from Hirocks which has only been in the tank for a week and a half now.
Sand bed is a good 3 inches is most of the tank, some area's only 1 inch.
When I brought this anemone home I acclimated by drip method for 3 hours, scooping out the water as the bag became full. For the first 2 days it did just fine. I had placed it in the middle of the tank height wise on a piece of LR in a hole under pretty good water movement. But on the third day when I woke up it was not there. It was located farther down on another rock on it's side. So I moved it back up. When I came home I found it up side down on the sand bed. So I move it up on the lower rocks. Again later that night I found it back on the sand bed again! I left it be on the sand bed. It has been eating silver sides during this time always ready to take them. Is it normal for them to move or am I placing it in to strong of a current? And is it normal in the morning for it to be shrunk up when I turn the lights on? It does open up and extend it tips which are then thick and fairly bubbled after about 30 min to an hour. I know these things die very slowly and I don't want that to happen. Are there any signs they give when something is wrong?
Everything else I have is doing just fine.
Thanks in advance.
