Anemone is just wrong

[MTF7]

Hello people to start I bought a purple Sebae anemone right when my tank turned 6 months old in august. When I first bought it p, it was for it's purply color which I loved!
When I put it in my BC29 it quickly made it to the top of my rock work, I wasn't looking for more light because I have 12 royal blue and 12 cool white led's which at the time were cranked up to 50% white and 85-95% blue. It was doing good and kept its color for about a month it then started to loosed a little so I fed it and I gained it back.

In the middle of October I'm pretty sure I ticked it off and made it move or it moved on its own because it looked fine a little dis colored at the time but the way it was on the rock and the way the was it must have bumped the rock into the back wall upsetting the nem. So anyways it moved down to the bottom left of the tank and I have a diamond goby so I have some places where there is an inch or two of sand and some places where it is all piled up and is around 5 inches maybe, but anyways it found itself onto a pile and dug it's foot down into the sand and attached to he bottom.

At first I wasn't too worried until it really started to loose its color ( I'll post pics of when I got it and what it looks like now), and it hasn't grown at all it has actually seemed to shrink. Sometimes usually during lights off and 15mins after lights on in the morning it seems to bury itself in the sand.

I have fed it everything from silversides, brine shrimp, plankton, mysis shrimp, cyclopeze, and now krill. It seems to like the krill the best but after a week of feeding it krill 2-4 times a day I have seen no positive change in it at all.

My parameters are 100% perfect I even just added a nice frogspawn and it has taken off! The first 5mins of it being in my display tank it was fully opened and even had some sweeper tentacles out.

Anyone have a clue to what is going on? I have considered maybe my LFS dyed it but I highly doubt that because I have naught many corals from them and and they are the only real quality LFS in my area besides petco which mine right now has just cleared all their coral due to it all melted/ died and dinoflagellates.

Thanks any information will be much appreciated

 

[sh0ck]

so what is wattage of these LEDs?

 

[ska d]

Give it time. It is going through its acclimation, the fact that it has taken a foothold under the sand is a good sign. It probably lost some of its zooanthae algae in the move. I picked up a completely bleached sebae a few years back and it took a couple of months to color back up. If it is staying put and opening during the day, retracting at night is normal, then it is relatively happy where it is. Don't worry about feeding it to much. Once or twice a week, if you have small bio load, but if your feeding your fish things line mysis then don't even worry about feeding it. It will catch enough on its own.

 

[brandonblm]

anemone issues

anemone issues

well I'm just gonna post on here cause i don't know how to make my own i just registered for this page, i bought a bubble tip anemone and i have had it for about 3 weeks know and it looks fine during the day but at night when the light turn out its shrivels up and the mouth is wide open, i know thats not healthy but the water is good and I'm pretty sure i have sufficient lighting. how can i figure out whats wrong and how to fix it

 

[trackhazard]

Click on the new thread button at the top of the forum topics. Its generally considered bad form to hitch hike on someone else's post.

Most anemones will retract during the night for protection. Sometimes to the point where it looks like they are dying. As long as they aren't releasing weird things form their mouth (solid waste is normal, mesenterial structures aka their guts are not, cloudy discharge (aka sperm and eggs) can be a sign of stress) or losing color, then its probably fine. My anemones can look like death during lights out.

Secondly, it helps when you are more specific about your parameters. Saying "everything is good" doesn't really tell us anything. What is salinity? Temp? Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate? Tank mates? You say lighting is good but is it really? What kind of fixture do you have? How tall is your tank and where is the anemone located in the tank? What kind of flow do you have? Where did you pick up the anemone? LFS/mail order/friend's tank? All of this is relevant info.

Pics also help. Sometimes people think their nems look worse than they actually are.

-Charlie

 

[MTF7]

Click on the new thread button at the top of the forum topics. Its generally considered bad form to hitch hike on someone else's post.

Most anemones will retract during the night for protection. Sometimes to the point where it looks like they are dying. As long as they aren't releasing weird things form their mouth (solid waste is normal, mesenterial structures aka their guts are not, cloudy discharge (aka sperm and eggs) can be a sign of stress) or losing color, then its probably fine. My anemones can look like death during lights out.

Secondly, it helps when you are more specific about your parameters. Saying "everything is good" doesn't really tell us anything. What is salinity? Temp? Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate? Tank mates? You say lighting is good but is it really? What kind of fixture do you have? How tall is your tank and where is the anemone located in the tank? What kind of flow do you have? Where did you pick up the anemone? LFS/mail order/friend's tank? All of this is relevant info.

Pics also help. Sometimes people think their nems look worse than they actually are.

-Charlie

Salinity: 1.24 ( or whatever I can remember but is where you want it ) I'm about to put in some 1.26 to raise it to 1.25 hopefully I like to keep it around 1.23-1.26
Ammonia: 0.0
Nitrate: 0.0
Nitrite: 0.0
Temp is right at 76F
I take 5 gallons out of my biocube 29 which has about 24-26 gallons in it maybe I have like 40+ pounds of live rock
And 35 pounds of live fine sand
I run filter floss, purigen and chemi pure elite in a media rack
I also have some live rock rubble in the back and I sorta accidentally created a algea scrubber with a sponge pad I threw back there for more surface area so bacteria could grow.

Tank mates right now
Fish- 2 snowflake clowns (getting ready to pair up!)
A diamond goby, and a domino damsel
Coral- the anemone itself
Frogspawn, GSP and some good looking green mushrooms the place I got it from is a LFS called Aquatic treasures they are a really nice place and pretty much the only place around me that I will buy coral from.
My tank is a biocube 29 so idk about the hight right now but my lights are about 1 1/2 inches from the water surface and my best guess is probably around 30 inches maybe.

For my lighting I ripped out the original setup and upgraded it to the rapidled retro fit kit, I did how ever keep the moonlights from the biocube ( 3 moonlight leds thinking about getting rid of them and making a better moonlight). I have 24 led's total I'm not sure about the watt the leds Are but I have 12 cool whites and 12 royal blue my flow is the stock biocube pump right now and a power head on the opposite side of the tank I get pretty good flow enough to where there is a couple spots in my tank were if food hits it will be on the other side of the tank in a second.

Like I said I will try to upload a photo as soon as possible of my tank, my lights, when I first bought the anemone and what it looks like now. It has been in my tank since early September- mid august and right now it is February so about
4 months now. My clownfish do host it but only at night and occasionally a quick rest in it during the day.

 

[MTF7]

https://picasaweb.google.com/102128461515165281957/Biocube29?noredirect=1
Here is the pic of the anemone a week after I bought it.
I'll post a pic of what I looks like soon on the same album