Last night, I fed a small peice of raw shrimp to the condy anemone and the serpent star. This morning, the condy anemone , which is usially wide open, and 5" across, has shrunk to a small white ball with a few tips sticking out of it. Is it dying, or is this natural post-feeding behavior or is it reacting to something bad going on with the water. Any tips are appreciated.
Help, is my Condy dying?
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Re: Help, is my Condy dying?
Mine does that sometimes--it will come back to life. They are temperamental and very hard to keep though.
Mine does that sometimes--it will come back to life. They are temperamental and very hard to keep though.
Once I the lights came back on at around 3:00 this afternoon, it went right back to its original shape and size. My wife found something on the web that said it was an anemone's way of "doing a water change". I had no idea they could compact from a softball to a golfball and back. Amazing!
remember that in a way anemones are a jelly that decieded to stay put, and stoney corals are anemones that learned to make a rock.
so they are mostly water ....
I have seen them shrink after feeding or when the water chnages
or after some critter brushed them...
also several of the large corals can do the same thing, sometimes you may also see an anemone or large coral do a kind of "poop" where a goob of snoty-goo comes out... not very often but normal.
Thanks figuerres, this morning the condy was gone. I could see a bit of the base on the bottom through a crevice in the rock. Tonight, I come home and, there it is, like nothing ever changed.
What an amazing creature. I appreciate the insight. Helps me sleep at night knowing that somethinsg not terrible wrong.
What an amazing creature. I appreciate the insight. Helps me sleep at night knowing that somethinsg not terrible wrong.
also some resarchers say that the anemone may be able to "live forever" as they can reproduce by "budding" like some plants do.
so in the sea a whole bed of them may all be "clones" of two or three that colonised the area decades or more in the past.
also as a teenager in California I used to see some in sand that had a body that went down a foot (or more) to a rock ...
if you did anything that bothered them they would eject water and pull the top of them down into the sand till you left them alone... then when the tide came in they would just go back to normal.
-- this was near Santa Barbra by the way, I lived near Isla Vista for about 2 years. Used to hang out at the beach and tide pools all the time then... I guess that was in the 70's
also we had one time when a boat choped up some jellies and some surfers got covered in stingers... not the killer kind just the sort that made them turn red from head to toe and raw for a few hours
