Help! Sick anenome. Plz help.

[SquidHC]

I recently obtained a carpet anenome from a LFS that was severely bleached. I does not look diseased or damaged, just very very bleached. I have it under 20,000k 250w MH lights and am trying to feed it small pieces of "silversides" and Micro-Vert. He wont even touch the silversides. Also, as far as I know carpet anenomes are sand dwelling but I set it on the rock assuming it would move and it never has. Any advice as to how to nurse him back to health?

Thanks in advance. :rollface:

 

[SVXH6]

try different foods.. every anemone prefers a different food type. try fresh scallops, fresh shrimp, squid, salmon, clam.. these can be bought at the local grocery store.. try krill ,mysis shrimp, cyclopeeze, get these from a LFS. i always offer different foods to my anemones..

 

[calebjk]

if your water is anything less than perfect you will have a hard time keeping it, carpets have a rep for being hard to keep, but you lighting looks good.
everyone has mixed feelings about adding iodine but most people believe it is good for anemone's, you can try it.
I'd recommend feeding the tank DT's plankton and also some oyster eggs, many times a sick anemone can't feed on solid food, but it will filter out particle foods.
On the bleached part, i have a friend that has successfully kept a carpet, bta, and lta together in a 90gal tank for quite some time now, and they all have the bleached look like in the pic you posted, strange but obviously they are doing good enough, i wouldn't even think you could keep all of them in the same tank but it works for him.
one concerning thing is that the mouth of the anemone looks loose, that's a bad sign. As soon as you feel like this this is dead, if it dies, then cover your nose and remove it, a dead anemone is like a nuke in your tank.
and if you want something easier to keep try a BTA.

 

[Slakker]

Anemones are NOT filter feeders. This is a myth. Bleached anemones are NOT healthy. Given appropriate accommodations and lighting they will recover their zooxanthellae and color.

Your anemone has a long road to recovery, but it's certainly not a lost cause at this point. Try soaking the food in Selcon...many swear by it.

 

[kurtg]

I had a BTA reject food for months. It wouldn't eat shrimp, silver sides, clam, oysters, etc, etc. I had pureed mysis shrimp for zoos, and squirted some into it's tentacles and it immediately closed up. I've been able to get it eat larger pieces of shrimp now too by putting it close to it's mouth and then squirting the puree into/around it's tenticles. Just an idea.

 

[calebjk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9762990#post9762990 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Slakker
Anemones are NOT filter feeders. This is a myth.

please don't take this as an insult, because i'm completely open to you being correct. What evidence is there to prove that they DON'T filter feed?