Anemone Issues help please!!!

[BigGimp77]

Ok so I did the water change monday. The nem perked up almost immediatly and has looked fine since then. So today I fed him a tiny piece of small shrimp. It was probably a 1/4 of the size of scallop I fed him before. It was probably smaller then my pinky nail. I figured he would be fine with that.

When I fed him the scallop last time, he stretched his body out really far for about 3-5 hours. It was actually pretty cool to watch and his bubbles were really bubbly! I assumed this was due to him having trouble digesting. Well he's doing it again today... I'm hoping he doesn't puke again. Is this stretching thing normal when they eat?

 

[cdeboard]

Looks good and healthy to me. Puking could be just them using the bathroom. The mouth/poophole are one in the same. LOL.

 

[BigGimp77]

Well I was under the impression that the poop was brown and stringy. The scallop looked like a partially digested scallop as you can see in the first pic. But yea he looks really awesome and bubbly when he's stretched out. It's just normally he doesn't look like this. Just after I feed him. He doesn't try to move... He just streches lol

Here's a pic from the front of it when it's all streatched out.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Looks good and healthy to me. Puking could be just them using the bathroom. The mouth/poophole are one in the same. LOL.

But, the picture above shows an undigested piece of food -- which is a lot different then an anemone expelling waste. BTAs (( E. Quadricolors )) eat very small (( sized )) foods in wild, and the piece that was given to it was way too big.

One of the worst things for anemones is giving them food that is too big -- it could very well start to decompose inside it and cause numerous issues -- with the biggest one being death.

 

[wilsonreefs]

But, the picture above shows an undigested piece of food -- which is a lot different then an anemone expelling waste. BTAs (( E. Quadricolors )) eat very small (( sized )) foods in wild, and the piece that was given to it was way too big.

One of the worst things for anemones is giving them food that is too big -- it could very well start to decompose inside it and cause numerous issues -- with the biggest one being death.

X2 and I wouldn't feed it so often. remember what was said above. very small pieces. thats the problem a lot of people have, overfeeding! If you think about it a fish has a really, really small stomach, yet people go to the front of the tank and here come the fish. people think they are starving and feed them way too much.

Carl

 

[BigGimp77]

Same situation as before. Although I didn't actually see him spit out the shrimp from earlier. So he might have digested it idk. But he currently looks like poop.

I can't get the hang of this creature. One minute it looks great and then another it looks like poop. It won't make up its mind.

 

[MCary]

Yes, the poop is brown and stringy and fish will eat it. I've had anemones reject food like that after awhile. Never knew why but the anemone was fine. Either wasn't hungry, didn't like the food, or was protesting the middle east crisis through a hunger strike. Anemones can live on light for quite awhile. I fed mine shiners and if you have a hosting clown, they will fed him.

 

[BigGimp77]

if you have a hosting clown, they will fed him.

Lets not get into that :furious:

My clowns haven't gone near it. The smaller clown gone in it TWICE but that's all I've seen. It was only for 2 seconds too.