jeffreylesser
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I have a new Gigantea in my tank right now. I acclimated using a nice setup similar to what todd showed in a previous thread. It took about 2 1/2 hours and I removed about 1/3 of the acclimation water 3 times over the whole process. The anemone is a little bleached but still has a nice baby blue color. I have egg crate and a couple of pieces of screen over it so the light is reduced. So the questions:
1). The mouth seems pretty good, it closes all the way. Some times it is open a tiny bit, and I can see the Stoma?(Pair, and look like teeth or white rice). Over the last couple of days It has deflated a couple of times, but it did not gape, or expose its stomach etc. Both time this was at the end of the night cycle in the morning when I saw it like this. It is at the inflate or deflate points where I can see the stoma. I have the flow high, and an oceans motions so it goes from zero to high on a 1 minute schedule. I looked at videos on goole, so I know how much flow they need, and it's a lot. Am I ok here? Leave it alone?
2). I tried giving some food tonight(a very small piece of shrimp) and it had a mild response pulling in a little but not closing the deal, it sat this way for about 15 minutes and I removed the food. when I did so I was encouraged to see it had the stomach part way out. so this seems like an incomplete feeding response? Should I try feeding it closer to the mouth in a day or so, or let it sit a while?
3). Finally my clowns. I have black Ocellaris and they are a bit rough. The exagerated tail swishing is good since the anemone likes flow, but there is a lot of pushing on the mouth and pulling on tentacles, etc... I can live with that, but what is bothering me, is if I feed the anemone they will remove the food and spit it out to the side, so I put a basket over the anemone to feed it. This doesn't seem like a long term solution to me. Are they bad clowns or do they know something I don't?
My tank:
120 Gallon, 30 gallon sump. 48x24x24
3 24 watt actinics, and 2 250 DE 14K MH lights about 6 inches off the surface
3 inch fine grain sand
My parameters:
Amonia - 0
NO2 - 0
NO3 - 2.5 ppm
PO4 - .04
Ph - 8.31
Salinty - 33.3(~1.025)
Temp 78 - 80
Calcium - 400
Kh - ~8.5
1). The mouth seems pretty good, it closes all the way. Some times it is open a tiny bit, and I can see the Stoma?(Pair, and look like teeth or white rice). Over the last couple of days It has deflated a couple of times, but it did not gape, or expose its stomach etc. Both time this was at the end of the night cycle in the morning when I saw it like this. It is at the inflate or deflate points where I can see the stoma. I have the flow high, and an oceans motions so it goes from zero to high on a 1 minute schedule. I looked at videos on goole, so I know how much flow they need, and it's a lot. Am I ok here? Leave it alone?
2). I tried giving some food tonight(a very small piece of shrimp) and it had a mild response pulling in a little but not closing the deal, it sat this way for about 15 minutes and I removed the food. when I did so I was encouraged to see it had the stomach part way out. so this seems like an incomplete feeding response? Should I try feeding it closer to the mouth in a day or so, or let it sit a while?
3). Finally my clowns. I have black Ocellaris and they are a bit rough. The exagerated tail swishing is good since the anemone likes flow, but there is a lot of pushing on the mouth and pulling on tentacles, etc... I can live with that, but what is bothering me, is if I feed the anemone they will remove the food and spit it out to the side, so I put a basket over the anemone to feed it. This doesn't seem like a long term solution to me. Are they bad clowns or do they know something I don't?
My tank:
120 Gallon, 30 gallon sump. 48x24x24
3 24 watt actinics, and 2 250 DE 14K MH lights about 6 inches off the surface
3 inch fine grain sand
My parameters:
Amonia - 0
NO2 - 0
NO3 - 2.5 ppm
PO4 - .04
Ph - 8.31
Salinty - 33.3(~1.025)
Temp 78 - 80
Calcium - 400
Kh - ~8.5
