Bta help!!

[rssjsb]

Most people do not have a quarantine or hospital tank with lighting sufficient to keep an anemone healthy. Putting an anemone into a tank without sufficient lighting and flow is not going to help it.

I'm all for quarantine, but I think the likelihood of introducing a disease to your display through an anemone is very small. If your anemone is attached to a rock when you buy it, you could be bringing something in if you add the rock to your tank. Otherwise, however, I would be very surprised to learn that an anemone could harbor ich or some other parasite.

 

[CoralReeferGal]

Thanks guys! I thought you werent supposed to put rock in QT tanks? It was supposed to be just a few pieces of PVC? And I think you misunderstood; we have the QT/hospital tank stabilized now. We just set it up over the summer, and the water finally tested perfect last week, so it is now stable and ready to use if we need to. I also have never heard much fuss of QTing nems or corals; We do however Coral RX dip all corals before going in the DT. This nem was not on a piece of rock when we bought it. It was happily on the glass of the tank at the store.

 

[Chronicj7]

If it stays in the bottom corner of the tank and the clown is still bugging it, you can make a small cage out of egg crate that will not only keep the clown away from it but it will diffuse some of the light thats hitting it.

From your last pic it looks healthy, just needs to regain color.

 

[rssjsb]

Thanks guys! I thought you werent supposed to put rock in QT tanks? It was supposed to be just a few pieces of PVC? And I think you misunderstood; we have the QT/hospital tank stabilized now. We just set it up over the summer, and the water finally tested perfect last week, so it is now stable and ready to use if we need to. I also have never heard much fuss of QTing nems or corals; We do however Coral RX dip all corals before going in the DT. This nem was not on a piece of rock when we bought it. It was happily on the glass of the tank at the store.

Now I'm confused. Is the anemone in QT or your DT? I was assuming from your original post and pictures, that it was the latter. That's why I suggested putting a rock close to the anemone to see if it would attach.

My earlier post about QT was in response to someone upthread suggesting that you should move the anemone to a QT tank. I don't quarantine anemones. As stated, the small possibility that it might bring a fish disease (i.e., ich) in is outweighed by the harm that could be done to the nem in less than ideal lighting and flow conditions that are normal for a QT tank.

In any event, there's nothing wrong with putting a rock in QT as long as you take it out if you need to medicate the tank. Which you wouldn't do for an anemone even if you did quarantine it.

 

[CoralReeferGal]

It is in the DT. I also wouldn't QT nems, just fish, for the same reason you stated. We were setting up accessories in our 10 gal QT/hospital tank in case it would be better to move the nem, so we do have power heads and high output T5's (now) for the QT tank. The QT tank has been set up and running for about 2-3 months now, and all water params are testing where they should be. But this nem has me very confused: heres how it looked yesterday morning:

And we rushed out to get the proper lights to get it moved to QT, and by the time we got back, it looked like this:

I think we are going to leave the nem in the DT to prevent further stress, and move the clown to QT until the nem recovers fully.

 

[L8ndeb]

Just leave it alone and let it acclimate to:

The metal halide lighting
new water parameters
new enviroment
a hosting clownfish
probably a new diet

Give him a week or so and then see how things are going. Don't panic.

 

[rssjsb]

I think you're on the right track. You could also put a strawberry basket over the nem to keep the clowns out, but maroons are pretty hard to deter.