carpet on rock

[leslee5050]

I bought a haddoni blue carpet a couple of weeks ago. I posted pix on here. She is definitely beautiful. I just have a couple of questions. My last carpet pretty much stayed on the sand in the corner of my tank. I had her in my 75 gallon tank with t5 lighting. This new carpet I put in my 40 gallon which has a 150mh and 2 t5 actinic lights. Also have a mp10es in there with protein skimmer and phosban reactor. For the first week or so, she wouldn't attach her foot. She would put it in the sand and be open all day and well into the night, and then in the wee early hours of the morning, she would shrink down to about the size of a pancake. So I asked a friend on the forum and she said to dig a whole in the sand up against a rock, and put her foot in there. So, I did this. She has stayed in the same place for the last week, but instead of putting her foot in the sand to the glass at the bottom, she has hooked her foot onto a rock, and climbed up on it. Not all the way, but mostly. Is this normal. I was considering moving her to my 75 gallon with the t5 lighting, as my other gigantea did quite well in there. I also still haven't been able to get her to eat. I have tried mysis, shrimp, and frozen krill. And I have a peppermint shrimp that goes on her and doesn't seem to be bothered. I only have 3 chromis in there, a peppermint shrimp and a pistol shrimp. No one is bothering her from what I can see. Parameters are all ok.
One more thing. She also has a tendency to open her mouth off and on throughout the day, is this normal also. This haddoni is so very different from my gigantea. Any help would be great.

 

[leslee5050]

Forgot to ask. What is the approximate time that a haddoni will be settled in, and at what point can I add clowns?

 

[Toddrtrex]

What are your current parameters -- with numbers please, "ok" doesn't tell me much.
How long has the tank been set up?
Can you get a picture?
Where did you get it from?
What lights was it under?

None of what you have described is normal for a healthy S. haddoni. They are sandbed dwelling anemones, and if it is climbing on the rocks something is off. Also, the mouth should stay tightly closed.

A healthy one will settle in right away -- within minutes of being in the display tank. At this point I would not add any clowns until you figure out what is going on.

 

[leslee5050]

kh9
salinitly 0.125
nitrate 30
nitrite 0
phospate 0
ph 8.2
ammonia 0

lighting 1 150mh and 2 t5 actinics

Tank has been set up for about 4 years.

 

[leslee5050]

OK here is pix from a few minutes ago. I had my gigantea in my other tank and it was fine. Not sure what the problem is here. But here is pix... As I mentioned, she has been in my tank for about 17 days now. Should I move her under the t5s in the other tank?


The first pix is 17 days ago. The mouth thing she has been doing since I put her in the tank.

 

[Toddrtrex]

First, cover that powerhead.

What is your salinity/SG? 0.125 is not valid number. Would expect either 1.025 or 35 PPT.

I would work on getting those nitrates down.

 

[leslee5050]

Sorry, transposed a number. 1.025. I just did a water change on it. I have been working to get nitrates down. As for power head, I just turned it down. It is adjustable, so are you saying to cover it bc it is too much flow, or not sure of the other reasons. Could you please explain. I have some plastic mesh type stuff that I bought from my lfs if I need to cover. Since I have turned the flow back to half, the carpet seems to have settled a little bit more on the sand. But the way the mouth has been doing, it has been doing that since i got it. One more thing. I am in the process of getting a new bulb for the mh. I should have changed it at the end of october, but I was recouperating from surgery. The bulb was 1 year old in october. Could this be contributing to the problem. And, I just looked behind the nem to see how it is hooked on the rock. The rock that it attached has spikey points jutting out of it. And the way it looks is that when the nem attached, one of the spikey parts kind of tore the foot. Never had this happen before either. Will it reheal itself? Should I move this to my 75 with t5 lightning, or leave it where I have it?

 

[leslee5050]

The rock that is behind the nem in the first pix in this post is the one it attached to. See the points jutting out. Also, can you see how the mouth is doing in that first pix, with the white in the center. Still doing that. That first pix is right after I got it, same day.

 

[Arusso713]

How long has the tank been up because if you have and 8.2 ammonia reading you should not have fish in there let a long an anemone.

 

[Arusso713]

Never mind that was ph. Spaces and commas are help full.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Sorry, transposed a number. 1.025. I just did a water change on it. I have been working to get nitrates down. As for power head, I just turned it down. It is adjustable, so are you saying to cover it bc it is too much flow, or not sure of the other reasons. Could you please explain. I have some plastic mesh type stuff that I bought from my lfs if I need to cover. Since I have turned the flow back to half, the carpet seems to have settled a little bit more on the sand. But the way the mouth has been doing, it has been doing that since i got it. One more thing. I am in the process of getting a new bulb for the mh. I should have changed it at the end of october, but I was recouperating from surgery. The bulb was 1 year old in october. Could this be contributing to the problem. And, I just looked behind the nem to see how it is hooked on the rock. The rock that it attached has spikey points jutting out of it. And the way it looks is that when the nem attached, one of the spikey parts kind of tore the foot. Never had this happen before either. Will it reheal itself? Should I move this to my 75 with t5 lightning, or leave it where I have it?

Cover it so that the anemone doesn't get sucked into it if it releases. Also, S. haddonis are not fans of lots of flow.

If the foot is ripped, that could be a bad thing for an S. haddoni, since they don't naturally split.

I would not move it, moving it will just cause it more stress.

 

[leslee5050]

Since I turned the flow down, it has come down off the rock more. I just tested the nitrate again and it was 20. I had tested it right after I did the water change, and it was still reading high. I guess I didn't give it enough time to come down. But it is now reading 20. It is looking a little better with lower flow. Also ordered new mh. Should receive in a couple of days. Anything else I can or need to do?

 

[Toddrtrex]

When you get the new bulb, make sure to acclimate the anemone to the new bulb. I would place a couple of layers of window screening (( supported by egg crate )) b/t the lights and the tank, remove a layer every 5-7 days.

 

[leslee5050]

Boy, do I feel stupid. Foot isn't torn. It was just the way it was wrapped on the rock, and there was a snail beside it. Foot is ok. Since I turned down flow, has come off rock even more.

 

[leslee5050]

Thanks. Bulb should be here in a couple of days.