Blue Tip Sebae Anemone Help

[jonto]

Hello AGAIN folks, hope you don't get tired of me!
My Sebae arrived last week. I haven't been able to get him to anchor anywhere. He just ends up where the water flow takes him. I have adjusted my pumps and just moved him to a spot he might like. We'll see. Been squirting him brine shrimp but its hard to keep it away from my Melanarus Wrasse. I think PetSmart has some frozen silverside. I don't have an LFS. Should I try this instead? And then I have to figure out a way to get it to him.
He's about 4inches and still a brown color. Never was white bleached.

 

[billdogg]

Try placing a colander over it so that it stays in one place. More information about your system would help as well. Generally speaking, if they are happy they will find a place that suits them. If conditions are not just right, they will continue looking.

 

[Small Heavens]

Weaker Nems can have a hard time grabbing on proper while also adjusting to new settings.

You can help it by trapping it and securing it somehow, you can always rearrange your display the way you like it later, when the Nem got settled in.

 

[jonto]

Well, I tried feeding the Sebae and the Rose Bubble Tip with some Silverside. The Rose chowed it down but the Sebae just spits it out. Should I try a chunk of shrimp? She still has good color but has not attached anywhere yet. I will try the colander trick and see if that will work. They have both been in my tank about a week now.

 

[jlmawp]

Not an anemone expert, but I often read people on this forum saying not to feed a nem in a new tank for a couple weeks or so. Doing so can stress it out more. I would just let it find a good place to be first.

 

[jonto]

Still haven't been able to get the Sebae to anchor any place. Tonight I put him in a good place and holding him there with a stick. I also cut down on the Jabeo powerhead quite a bit. Will see where he is in the morning.

 

[ca1ore]

There is a forum here on RC for anemones ..... post there as you'll get more of the experts to reply. My sebae always ended up wedging their foot under a rock at the sandbed. Generally not a high flow anemone like Magnifica. I'd not try to force feed it until settled. You could try contraining it with a circle of something like gutter guard. May attach for you ..... and then wander until it finds a happy place.