Anemone ID

[O'Man]

The photos are in my gallery. I bought this nem about 2 weeks ago from a LFS. It is starting to look better. It started out droopy & open-mouthed. It is getting more color than these photos show. There is actually a good bit of greenish color. The tips have small pink/purple dots. My perculas, which were sold as "black & wild caught" went for it right away. They have been picky in the past. A few years ago they completely rejected a bubble-tip and a salmon colored LTA. I got them a ritteri, that they jumped right into, and stayed with it for about 3.5 years, until it moved around and went into the overflow and got ripped into 2 messy pieces.

My clowns have gone for close to a year without an anemone and then I got this one. It was sold to me as a "Carpet" but I have my doubts. Anyway, the fish went for it instantly and overnight it dug into the sand and has stayed put.

Any guesses?

I know the photos are not great, I'll try for more.

 

[SVXH6]

looks like a very hungry H. Crispa.. try feeding a little more.. the tentacles should be a lot longer than that..

 

[Amphiprion]

Agreed. Seems to be on its way to recovery. I recommend using a whole fish meat, such as silversides and increasing (as SVXH6 said) to about every other day until it recovers fully.

 

[O'Man]

My guess was H. crispa or H. malu. So far it takes food into its mouth and then spits it out a little later. It has spit out krill, silversides & clam. I do not want to beat it up by dumping food on it too much, so I'm taking tonight off from feeding it. Tomorrow I'll try squid & saturday will be scallop. I really want to see it eat & keep the food down. I'm worried, though I think it is getting better. Up until 2 days ago, it would not move the food into its mouth. The food would just lay there.

 

[NanoClown]

try some small table shrimp, my BTA loves it

 

[COreefer]

Try giving it small pieces of food and build up to the larger.

 

[raoul]

Ours wasn't keen on eating in the begining - it was actually in worse shape than yours. We squirted mysis shrimp on it when we were feeding other things in our tank. It was hard to tell, but it appeared it was taking it in. It was small and easy for it. This is by no means a long term solution though, but at that point it seemed like something was better than nothing. I think it helped jump start its appetite in a way, making it more receptive when we offered scallops.

Good luck!

 

[O'Man]

Live brine seemed to do the trick tonight. I'll use it once more and then try something with more food value. I have some live brine in a jar with some DT's Phyto. I figure by tomorrow night that will have some nutritional value and if the feeding response continues the next step is more chopped-up silversides, and I picked up some squid & scallop.

 

[JohnM99]

That looks like H. crispa - agree. I got mine when it was bleached white and about 3-4 " across - it lived a week or two in the shop despite being completely and totally bleached - so I decided to take a chance on it - I have had it for a bit over a year - its beige colour came back over a month or two and now it is almost 24" tall and about 20" wide. It is up to the surface of my 90 g tank - I just love it. My ocellaris clowns abandoned a bubble tip for this, and frolic in it. They started laying eggs regularly soon after.

I love it.

Good luck with yours. I have been feeding a number of things, including krill, various frozen shrimp and dried shrimp pellets. It is a pig and will eat everything.

It also stunned one of my two Heniochus so badly it died a few hours later. Silly fish.