DragKnee
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So I bought my first anemone this past weekend, and I was really skeptical on the purchase.
I was looking at my LFS's RBTA's for $90, a little smaller than a baseball and I was hemming and hawing over it. They also had a green long tentacle anemone which was about the size of a softball, very vibrant green and listed at $100, but I knew the LFS has had it in their tank for a while.
The guy who runs the fish area is very close/helpful with our local club, and said that it never placed its foot in the tank, yet it was open everyday since he had it. He thought maybe it was just not comfortable with the bare bottom tank.
Since he had it for about a month, he told me he'd give it to me for $40. The mouth was closed, and it looked healthy, so I took a shot.
Put it in my tank, and it's been there now for 5 days and it hasn't planted itself anywhere. In fact, it's basically laying in the sand in the back of my tank. I currently have 2 of my powerheads turned off, because with them on, it just gets pushed around everywhere. (30g cube)
I tried feeding it raw shrimp, it wouldn't eat it. I defended it against my cleaner shrimp to give it a chance to eat, but it closed up around the shrimp holding it, but then just gradually opened back up and "didn't care". I tried giving it brine shrimp, didn't eat it.
The tentacles aren't "long" at all (only about 1"), but it's still open everyday for the last 5 days.
I'm thinking it's doomed. Never planted itself in the LFS tank, and with the current water flow, the position its in is because that's where the flow put it - not because it's where it wants to be. I can somewhat see the bottom of its base, and it's just "chilling", not attached, not attempting to move.
What should I do?
On a somewhat off-topic note, I've always wanted an anemone for my clownfish pair to host in, but, I tend to believe my clownfish don't even know there is rock in my tank. They just swim around the top 1/3 of the tank in open water, stay in the corners of the tank towards the top, and sometimes "host" my Mag-Float at night. :facepalm: I think they're so used to me hand feeding them at the top of the water, they see no reason to venture lower. :headwally:
I was looking at my LFS's RBTA's for $90, a little smaller than a baseball and I was hemming and hawing over it. They also had a green long tentacle anemone which was about the size of a softball, very vibrant green and listed at $100, but I knew the LFS has had it in their tank for a while.
The guy who runs the fish area is very close/helpful with our local club, and said that it never placed its foot in the tank, yet it was open everyday since he had it. He thought maybe it was just not comfortable with the bare bottom tank.
Since he had it for about a month, he told me he'd give it to me for $40. The mouth was closed, and it looked healthy, so I took a shot.
Put it in my tank, and it's been there now for 5 days and it hasn't planted itself anywhere. In fact, it's basically laying in the sand in the back of my tank. I currently have 2 of my powerheads turned off, because with them on, it just gets pushed around everywhere. (30g cube)
I tried feeding it raw shrimp, it wouldn't eat it. I defended it against my cleaner shrimp to give it a chance to eat, but it closed up around the shrimp holding it, but then just gradually opened back up and "didn't care". I tried giving it brine shrimp, didn't eat it.
The tentacles aren't "long" at all (only about 1"), but it's still open everyday for the last 5 days.
I'm thinking it's doomed. Never planted itself in the LFS tank, and with the current water flow, the position its in is because that's where the flow put it - not because it's where it wants to be. I can somewhat see the bottom of its base, and it's just "chilling", not attached, not attempting to move.
What should I do?
On a somewhat off-topic note, I've always wanted an anemone for my clownfish pair to host in, but, I tend to believe my clownfish don't even know there is rock in my tank. They just swim around the top 1/3 of the tank in open water, stay in the corners of the tank towards the top, and sometimes "host" my Mag-Float at night. :facepalm: I think they're so used to me hand feeding them at the top of the water, they see no reason to venture lower. :headwally:
