Inside out

[ckrhone]

I purchased a sand anemone on Saturday, aclimatised it and it appeared to be ok.

This lunch time, I arrived home to find that it had turned itself inside out?

Is this something that they do sometimes or is this cause for concern? I am anxious because I do not want to lose this wonderful creature.

 

[finding nemo]

Sorry you did not get a reply. When you say turned inside out, can you explain to us just what you are seeing, are you seeing it's guts or is it closing up around it's tenticles?
Any pictures of it so that we can help you more?

 

[ckrhone]

anemone died!

anemone died!

It turned itself completely inside out. Its stomach was on the ouside with its bright orange foot being tightly closed up in the centre. It unfortunately started to break down so I had to remove it from my tank. I really am dissappointed because my water parameters seem to be quite good. My nitrates are still coming down 20 ppm. Had them before and they all seem to die! Getting quite upset because these creatures are dying and yet I would love to be able to keep one in my tank with my clown's

 

[kamil5000]

Re: anemone died!

Re: anemone died!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7818775#post7818775 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ckrhone
Had them before and they all seem to die!

How many have died?

1 - How long has your tank been running?

2 - What Lights are you using?

3 - What is your water movement/flow like?

4 - How are ALL of your water parameters (PH, Alk, Ca, Po4)?

Any weakness in the above 4 qustions would be the cause of an anemone's demise.

These are difficult creatures to care for and new need to rally meet all their requirments before you can have any l ong term success with them.

 

[ckrhone]

Anemone problems

Anemone problems

Tank conditions as follows:
- tank is 5' x 2' x 1.5' - 100 UK gallons
-Reef set up 4 months
-Temp 25.5 degrees celsius - 77.9 degrees farenheit
-Have T5 Lighting, 2 x blue actinic and 2x white - on for 10-12 hours a day - everything seems to be successfully growing under these lights
3 x large powerheads on wave motion throughout the tank.
-PH - 8
-KH - 8 dkH
Ca - 400 ppm - new deltec calc reactor
Mg- 1300ppm
Po4 - 0.03ppm
Nitrate 20ppm - this is actively being reduced using conventional medthods of dilution and a recently acquired nitrate reductor
salinity 1.024

The above seems to be withing good parameters. i wouldn't say excellent because I strive for the best but everything else in the tank appears to be growing including my brain coral and sunset corals. It really does seem strange.

I hope this helps.

Thank you.

 

[kamil5000]

A couple of things:

You need to try and maintain your salinity at 1.026 i/o 1.024

and

T5 lighting - I beieve that each bulb is 54 watts and you have a total of4 = 216 watts for 100 gallons. This is way below what you need. You should be looking atleast for 4 watts/gallon i.e. 400 watts. You should either add an MH lamp to that of double your T5 quantity.

IMO this setup should be o.k. for the 'easier' anemones like BTA & LTA.

BTW what type of anemo was it that your were keeping before?