Blue Carpet Anenome

[NanoReefWanabe]

that guy looks heavily bleached out...

i hope he makes it...

all you can do is good lights, good random flow and try to feed him little bits at a time..give him a selection, and i think i would soak them in some enriching vitamins too...

Best of luck...

also like mentioned i would move the other nems to a different tank, no sense getting rid of them yet as your new one many not make it..

 

[mikedachamp]

thanks you. its a shame though because this was the most expensive thing i purchased for this tank.

 

[mikedachamp]

thank you. its a shame though because this was the most expensive thing i purchased for this tank.

 

[Reefski's]

keep feeding it SMALL foods at least once a day.

i thought the most expensive thing was the chiller.


Carl

 

[Slakker]

Next time do your research BEFORE buying something.

 

[mile sq. reefer]

Ease up, we all started somewhere and made mistakes along the way. Hopefully we as a community can provide the necessary info to help keep this animal alive and bring it back to a healthy state.

 

[E.J. Coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12701886#post12701886 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
Next time do your research BEFORE buying something.

For all the advice that you give out concerning anemones, have you ever kept one ? Until you have, refrain from repremanding a fellow reefer for actually going out on a limp and trying to keep interesting animals. That is what we are here for after all.

It is quite obvious from the pictures that this animal was sick before it was in his care. How would research have helped him?

 

[E.J. Coral]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12700299#post12700299 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mikedachamp
yes it does. the problem is, the pump is already hitting it with enough flow, where the tentacles are moving. i dont know what to do anymore

Here is a video I just took of my gigantea. This is with half the flow that it will get, as my other vortech is getting serviced right now. I would consider this the minimum flow for these animals.



Here is a video from my old tank. It seems like a lot of direct flow, but the animal loved it.

 

[mikedachamp]

thanks for your recent posts. i have to give it time to see it will get healthy again. it is eating chopped squid occasionally. it recently just went to hang out on the bottom of the tank.
AND i did do my research. i have sufficient lighting 5.4 watts per gallon and flow. i guess its possible that some things dont do well in some tanks..again...i just tested my water for everyone and it checks out perfect. maybe because my tank is only a few months old, my iodine and other minerals arent stable yet..

 

[Slakker]

Watts per gallon is generally not a helpful gauge, as different lighting systems create different levels of intensity and useful spectrum at the same wattage.

I have no doubts that you've done a good amount of reading on general aquarium husbandry and maintenance, and probably quite a lot on general anemone care.

My point was that yes, this anemone probably was unhealthy before you came across it, but before buying it you would have benefited from researching how to spot a healthy anemone, and how to identify what species it was. In the future, I think it would be best to know what you're bringing home before it starts having trouble in your tank, but maybe I'm crazy.

Best of luck to you...seriously, I hope to see a post in a couple months about how healthy and beautiful your gigantea is.

E.J. - Nope, I never have kept an anemone, because I know that my current system isn't large enough or stable enough to support it. That doesn't mean I don't know a thing or two, though. I've learned what I know from the greatest collective mind of anemone keepers that I'm aware of - this forum. There's a heck of a lot of knowledge to be had around here, even without experience, if you're willing to dig for it.

 

[Der_Iron_Chef]

E.J.....THANKS for those videos. It's good to have a visual on what proper type of flow is like for these anemones. I just got a new Gigantea yesterday, and had never seen what the type of flow actually looks like.

Since seeing your video, I've moved my Vortech to a different location, and am giving my carpet a solid blasting of random flow

 

[E.J. Coral]

Eating is a great sign!!!! Anemones can be incredibly resilient!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12705710#post12705710 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mikedachamp
thanks for your recent posts. i have to give it time to see it will get healthy again. it is eating chopped squid occasionally. it recently just went to hang out on the bottom of the tank.
AND i did do my research. i have sufficient lighting 5.4 watts per gallon and flow. i guess its possible that some things dont do well in some tanks..again...i just tested my water for everyone and it checks out perfect. maybe because my tank is only a few months old, my iodine and other minerals arent stable yet..

 

[Reefski's]

keep feeding those very small pieces

please update this thread from time to time also.

what are you running your tank temp at?

 

[mikedachamp]

it fluctuates from 76-79

 

[Titus77]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12701389#post12701389 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mikedachamp
This was the most expensive thing i purchased for this tank.

So does that mean that you got your tank and MH and everything else for free? Unless you mean for inside of you tank, how much did the peeps at your LFS make you pay for it?

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12705710#post12705710 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mikedachamp
i just tested my water for everyone and it checks out perfect...

what is perfect? what test kits were used?

 

[mikedachamp]

i payed 200 for the anemone. came with 5 lbs of rock, an anemone crab, and a snail.....the test kit i use is called API

 

[Titus77]

Sorry dude, but you got ripped off to the MAX.

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12715331#post12715331 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Titus77
Sorry dude, but you got ripped off to the MAX.

You don't know that. The going prices for those varies by location. And you state things in a less curt way. My blue Haddoni was more then that.

 

[Titus77]

I guess you are right. I just meant that they sold him a very sick nem for almost full price. They knew that he was a beginner, but they did not know that he knew about us at ReefCentral!