how do u know if your anemones is healthy??

[little x]

how can u find out if ur anemones is healthy??

 

[TOURKID]

its color is very good. it accepts food without spitting it out. It doesent walk around... It only deflates every few days. those are the signs I look for personally. If my nem starts doing somthing different I start to pay close attention.

 

[SuperNerd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8709796#post8709796 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TOURKID
It only deflates every few days.

What if it doesn't deflate at all or only when you don't notice it? Mine used to do it every few days too but I haven't seen them doing it for months now.

 

[catastrofe]

IME, with the excpetion of BTAs, healthy anemones rarely, if ever deflate. Healthy BTAs may deflate every day. I've never quite understood why they differ from other species in this regard.

 

[SuperNerd]

Deflate as in while digesting or deflating just randomly?

 

[ChunksInClemson]

Just randomly, my healthy 2 do it pretty often.

 

[TOURKID]

your right I should have specified bubble tip anemone when i stated that


supernerd... btas deflate to either balance the water inside them with the water outside of them, or to poop. At one point before mine split, I could predict to the hour when it would deflate. it was somthing like 37 hours after i fed it a silverslide, it would deflate. now days mines different.

do you feed yours? it might be deflateing at night too.

 

[timrandlerv10]

my rbta deflates 12 minutes after the light goes out. he reinflates (halfway) 5 miuntes after i turn my office light on. he reinflates the rest of the way 5-7 minutes after i turn on the metal halides...and it doesnt matter how long i wait to turn on the MH...right away or an hour later.

he deflates (collapses is more like it) 3 minutes after he catches anything larger than mysis or brine.

 

[little x]

can they get sick??

 

[bwest]

This is helpful to know, since my BTA deflates usually every night a couple hours after the MH's off. Then reinflates in the morning when they go back on. Color is good, and it's been accepting raw shrimp pieces.

 

[SuperNerd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8711018#post8711018 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by TOURKID
your right I should have specified bubble tip anemone when i stated that


supernerd... btas deflate to either balance the water inside them with the water outside of them, or to poop. At one point before mine split, I could predict to the hour when it would deflate. it was somthing like 37 hours after i fed it a silverslide, it would deflate. now days mines different.

do you feed yours? it might be deflateing at night too.

Yes, I feed them. Krill and clam flesh. It's possible that they're deflating sometime between my bedtime and the early morning hours because I never see them do it.

It's wierd because the times I actually saw BTAs deflate in the past were the times when they weren't happy (or at least I thought so).

I also never see my mini carpets or flower/rock anemone do it as well and I feed those too.