Anemone inside the reef

[ZoeReef]

My RBTA went for a walk last night from it's perfect spot on one corner of my reef to a spot inside the reef.

I used ChemiClean to get rid of red slime algae (that stuff just rocks) and I'm wondering if it didn't resent the addition to the water and decide it needed better conditions. The perc's are not happy about this change. Anyhow...

I know it's normal for them to move around, I have one at home who has been traveling for about 2 weeks, but do I need to be concerned that it's inside the reef. It's pretty open in there. I purposefully built it that way so the fish could hide if an unsupervised kid banged on the glass. So there is plenty of water flow and filtered light.

Two questions:

Anything I need to do something about and..

Will it be fine just filter feeding (we add a good blend of zooplankton, cyclopeeze and other planktons every other day)

thx...Andy

 

[cerreta]

Andy, anemones and clams tend to wonder to places they like. It may not be the places we like them to go, because we tend to enjoy them being in view. However, if it ends up in a place it does not like, it will move.

Sometimes they move because they are unhappy with water conditions, which may be an early sign of its demise. So keep an eye on it since you just dosed that Chemi stuff.
Cheers

 

[aztbs]

You will probably just make more trouble if you to to make it move. If it is not getting enough light/food, it will continue to move.

For both tanks, I would make sure that any intakes for plumbing have some kind of foam cover on them while the anemones are walking around.

Can you get him with a turkey baster? I feed my fish that ground up frozen stuff. I thaw it, mush it up and stick it in a baster. I give a good size squirt to the anemone every few days and all the little bits stick on his tentacles and he closes up on it quick.

Your rose looked so pretty in that little, I hope he finds a good new spot. I did notice that it looked like it was sitting out on the rock more and didn't have the foot down in a good crevice. Maybe the foot was being nibbled?

 

[DarkFORCE]

Andy mine did the same thing the other day. He moved back into a cave so I can't really get to him to feed.

 

[clkwrk]

I agree anemones will go on the move over many reason but they all point to its not happy .........

 

[ZoeReef]

Thanks for all the input. Tiffany, you were right. It moved pretty soon after you saw it. It was probably in the 'packing up to move' mindset.

Well it has started moving back out into the light and I was able to give it some krill. I would expect he will continue to move. Tomorrow morning my ChemiClean protocol is finished and I'm doing a 20% water change and the skimmer goes back on. (20% in my nano is not a big deal, but 30 gallons of water change is a new experience for me. My problem is not warming the water up, but cooling it down since I'm running the temp at 76.5 for the seahorses). I already put carbon back in the sump so it's time to begin pulling that stuff out of the water. All corals are looking good, the red slime is not to be seen in any of my tanks.

I'm not sure of the wisdom of using the ChemiClean but I'm going to be out of town for about 12 days starting next Monday and I didn't want to leave a system being overrun with the red slime. I have a good team in place to clean and feed and Tiffany has offered to be available to the team should the unexpected arise.