Anemone Advice Please

[JohnV8r]

I picked up a RBTA about six weeks ago. My large female maroon clown was a little much so the anemone moved under a rock overhang where the MC could not really bother it. The anemone would come out each day and I would feed it silversides since I was concerned that it wasn't getting any light.

Meanwhile, the RBTA accepted/hosted my male MC, which is significantly smaller. They have a great setup under the rock. However, the RBTA isn't coming out for silversides anymore. It also isn't getting any light and is losing color/tenticle length (meaning it's starving itself).

I can't get silversides to it because of the awkward angle and the MMC's propensity to defend the RBTA. I also can't get to the anemone to try to take it off the rock as it is at the bottom of my rock stack with a ton of SPS & LPS above it.

My question is this: Will the anemone eventually realize it's hungry and start to move or is my only option to rip the rock stack apart and get it?

Once I can finally get to it I'll take it out and put it in a quarantine tank so I can feed it everyday and try to get its color back.

 

[thor109]

You only need to feed every two weeks. Any more and they won't close up. Anemones do their own thing. Just relax and watch. Most likely it will find its happy place. If it stays under rock out of light just squirt some mysis its way every two weeks. Relax, its finding its happy place and it might change 4 or 5 times in the next year.

 

[AliciaP]

Stop feeding it, you may have given it a stuffed belly. i feed mine 'maybe' twice a month. I wait until they start getting skinny tentacles. If I were you, I would get him out of there and place him in a spot of his own (place the rock he's on alone on the bottom), I did this with my ill 'nem so that I could feed a little easier. He started doing better and began literally circling the rock looking for a new home to move to. I placed it's rock near the other rocks and away it went until it found where it wanted to be. While it was ill (bleached horribly) I fed once a week, unless it was looking really skinny. It colored up and is doing wonderfully now. Both of mine get fed a couple times a month. I personally think most 'nems die from being too stuffed.

 

[JohnV8r]

OK, I'll just sit tight. Thanks.