Thanks for everyone's help while I was gone. My wife really did a fantastic job with the tank while I was gone. Its really unbelievable, but when I got back, I could definitely notice coral growth. Plus, all the fish were alive! :celeb2:
After the nem's adventure, it did stay put in the same location...
...until I got home!
I got home last night, and it was in the same place it had been. The knee-high stockings had started to rip, and I didn't want them getting caught in the Vortech impellers, so I took the knee-highs off and went to bed. When I got up in the morning, the nem was on the other side of the tank, basically back where it started! Ugh...
I'm just not sure what to do with this thing at this point. I'd find it hard to believe that its not happy with the light its getting (4 overdriven T5s with individual parabolic reflectors, and 2 VHO actinics), as everything else is happy, including my LPS and SPS.
Could it not like the amount of flow that it is getting? Typically, anemones like moderate to high flow, and I have a plenty of flow in my 90g tank with two Vortech MP40s running at almost 100% in lagoon mode. There is more flow near the top of the tank, but the anemone has always stayed at the bottom in the sand. Should I try to stick the anemone closer to the top manually? It would get more light this way too.
The anemone could be looking for more food. I target fed it the last two nights - my wife did not while I was gone. But, I'm skeptical that is the issue as it had started creeping before I had left. I have been typically target feeding it every other day.
What I do know is that I can't have this thing flying around the tank while I'm gone. It's just not fair to my wife to ask her to keep an eye on it and jump into action if it does decide to detach itself.
Any ideas, or does anybody want to trade me a different anemone for this one? My ocellaris clownfish haven't taken to it, though I'm not sure I'd want to get a Gigantic, Magnificent, or Merten's anemone (the ones the Anemone FAQ says that an ocellaris clownfish would take to) as these are supposedly the 3 hardest anemones to care for.
Another torch???