Hi everyone so I purchased a rather large Green Bubble Tip Anemone about 5 days ago. On the first day it moved around to find a spot. On the second day it seems to have found its spot and has stayed there the past four days. On the second day it opened up fully and beautifully, however the past three days it doesn't seem to want to fully open up and just partially opens up. I am beginning to get worried as I love it and its a beautiful anemone. My female occelaris clownfish began to host it on the second night.
My water parameters are as follows:
pH: 8.0
ammonia: 0ppm
nitrite: 0ppm
nitrate: 10ppm
kH: 7 degrees
Calcium:460ppm
Phosphate: 0.25
Temperate: 25.5 - 26.0 degrees Celsius
The tank is a 30 gallon Aquael Reef max that has been set up for almost about 2 years. It isnt a very deep tank so therefore i have 3 T5 HO over the top of it, each 25 watts meaning for a total of 75 watts, 1 globe is actinic and the other 2 are full spectrum.
It has an Aquael Reef Circulator 2600 as the pump in the tank, which provides about 685 gallons of flow per hour.
The anemone readily takes food I fed it on the seconds day, third day and today. Each day it was feed a small piece of raw shrimp.
It has found its spot in the bottom left hand corner of the tank with its foot firmly attached to the rock. Which leads me to believe as lighting isn't the problem or it would of moved higher in the tank to get more light.
Please help me figure out why my anemone isn't fully opening, the only time it seems to want to fully open is after i feed it a small piece of shrimp.
Thank You
My water parameters are as follows:
pH: 8.0
ammonia: 0ppm
nitrite: 0ppm
nitrate: 10ppm
kH: 7 degrees
Calcium:460ppm
Phosphate: 0.25
Temperate: 25.5 - 26.0 degrees Celsius
The tank is a 30 gallon Aquael Reef max that has been set up for almost about 2 years. It isnt a very deep tank so therefore i have 3 T5 HO over the top of it, each 25 watts meaning for a total of 75 watts, 1 globe is actinic and the other 2 are full spectrum.
It has an Aquael Reef Circulator 2600 as the pump in the tank, which provides about 685 gallons of flow per hour.
The anemone readily takes food I fed it on the seconds day, third day and today. Each day it was feed a small piece of raw shrimp.
It has found its spot in the bottom left hand corner of the tank with its foot firmly attached to the rock. Which leads me to believe as lighting isn't the problem or it would of moved higher in the tank to get more light.
Please help me figure out why my anemone isn't fully opening, the only time it seems to want to fully open is after i feed it a small piece of shrimp.
Thank You
