Help with anenome
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redvipe2010
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What else is in the tank?
HI there.
Tourkid had some problems with this awhile back. Here is the thread:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1020542
I don't think anyone figured out why it was doing it though
Lisa
Tourkid had some problems with this awhile back. Here is the thread:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1020542
I don't think anyone figured out why it was doing it though
Lisa
TOURKID
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WOAH. To weird. My nem is completely bonkers.
Ill try to time line it the best i can
It started twisting off tenicles, id find 3 a day sometimes... probley 10 all together
Then it started wondering after being in one spot for 8 months, it wondered for 3 weeks. (started 2 days b4 xmas when i was out of town, bf had a heartattack and slept next to the tank for fear of powerhead chopping)
It was fine thru xmas but it did end up encountering my skimmer pump. I had it covered with needlepoint plastic and nothing was damaged at all.
After three weeks it crawled to the very tippy top of the rock closest to the light. It has now been there on the top rock for almost 4 weeks. It is now growing pink tips out of the sides of its tenicles, then twisting the top of the old tenicles off so the new pink tip is now the top.
It still catch a tenicle a little twisted but it doesent twist them off.
Where the tenicles were twisted off at the very bottom at the disk, a new tenicle sprouted within a day.
The light was replaced a month before it started the twisting. It was replaced with the exact same bulb that I took out, and the old bulb was only 5 1/2 months old (hamilton 14k)
No perimeters went suddenly out of wack or anything, they have been really stable throughout this whole weirdness.
My nitrates were maybe 15 when I started testing everything I could. they are now between 2-4 agian.
I cant help you in any way. It really stressed me out. But all I can think of is it was regenerating tenicles or somthing. I dont think it was a flow issue at all......
Mine never ate its own tenicles.. although it would suck on one sometimes.. like it got stuck when she closed her mouth after a meal.
I feed my nems every third day silverslide piece
Ill try to time line it the best i can
It started twisting off tenicles, id find 3 a day sometimes... probley 10 all together
Then it started wondering after being in one spot for 8 months, it wondered for 3 weeks. (started 2 days b4 xmas when i was out of town, bf had a heartattack and slept next to the tank for fear of powerhead chopping)
It was fine thru xmas but it did end up encountering my skimmer pump. I had it covered with needlepoint plastic and nothing was damaged at all.
After three weeks it crawled to the very tippy top of the rock closest to the light. It has now been there on the top rock for almost 4 weeks. It is now growing pink tips out of the sides of its tenicles, then twisting the top of the old tenicles off so the new pink tip is now the top.
It still catch a tenicle a little twisted but it doesent twist them off.
Where the tenicles were twisted off at the very bottom at the disk, a new tenicle sprouted within a day.
The light was replaced a month before it started the twisting. It was replaced with the exact same bulb that I took out, and the old bulb was only 5 1/2 months old (hamilton 14k)
No perimeters went suddenly out of wack or anything, they have been really stable throughout this whole weirdness.
My nitrates were maybe 15 when I started testing everything I could. they are now between 2-4 agian.
I cant help you in any way. It really stressed me out. But all I can think of is it was regenerating tenicles or somthing. I dont think it was a flow issue at all......
Mine never ate its own tenicles.. although it would suck on one sometimes.. like it got stuck when she closed her mouth after a meal.
I feed my nems every third day silverslide piece
My anemone has been in the same spot since I bought it. It started to look better for awhile then back to the tentacles twisting off. I never really found them in the tank. That is why I thought it was eating them. I was told I did not have to feed it because it had zooxanthellae. I do have silversides if I should feed it. Tank mates are:
yellow tang
blue tang
chalk bass
damsel
mathrix crabs
Cin. clown
chesnut cowrie snail
lawnmower blenny
astrea snail
Nassarius Snail
six line wrasse
green chromis
soft corals
Here is a pic. I hope these help.
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yellow tang
blue tang
chalk bass
damsel
mathrix crabs
Cin. clown
chesnut cowrie snail
lawnmower blenny
astrea snail
Nassarius Snail
six line wrasse
green chromis
soft corals
Here is a pic. I hope these help.
redvipe2010
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He is starving. Start feeding silversides immediately.
RedSonja
Premium Member
You definitely have to feed it. Small meaty foods, pencil-eraser sized is the maximum size. At this point every-day feeding would be good until it recovers.
Here's a good article that is mainly about E. quadricolor aka bubbletip anemones but it applies to most host anemones:
http://www.reefland.com/rho/0505/main4.php
-Sonja
redvipe2010
In Memoriam
Also, keep an eye on that crab! They have been known to steal food from anemones. It may even be responsible for nipping the tenticles.
TOURKID
New member
wow it lost almost all its tenicles 
yes its a bubble tip.
feed it everyday as sonja said. I feed more than pencil eraser size, more like 2, but start off small. it might even have a hard time getting them in the mouth without many tenicles.
Make sure you defrost the sslide in tank water before feeding
yes its a bubble tip.
feed it everyday as sonja said. I feed more than pencil eraser size, more like 2, but start off small. it might even have a hard time getting them in the mouth without many tenicles.
Make sure you defrost the sslide in tank water before feeding
TOURKID
New member
mine gets mysis or krill every day.. while im feeding the fish the nem gets a couple pieces. every third day i feed 2 ereasersized silver slide soaked in selcon.
I got these new s slides from omega one the other day, theyre so tiny i may have to feed a whole one cut in half, theyre like babys or somthing compared to the mosters i usually get
I got these new s slides from omega one the other day, theyre so tiny i may have to feed a whole one cut in half, theyre like babys or somthing compared to the mosters i usually get
If you never found any tentacles, is it possible that they didn't twist off? Nems that are starving will begin consuming themselves as a survival mechanism, and it shows up as stubby to non-existant tentacles many times.
Who told you you didn't have to feed them? I'd be very careful and skeptical with any other advice from them, especially about anemones. Just my opinion...
Good luck with it, I think with regular feedings you should see some improvement in a week or two, look for tentacles that appear to be sprouting from the oral disk (that's how my crispa responded anyway, I imagine it will be similar with your nem).
