goldfishbowl
Premium Member
Hi everyone,
I have a 60 Gallon with 40kg of live rock and 9 small common clowns - 4 cleaner shrimp a pistold shrimp, some snails and a few hermits and a small red star fish. Plenty going on and all working well together, very happy and healthy. Water condition is good, water changes, skimmer working well and everything else keeping things in bristol ship shape fashion.
Today I purchased an anemone, I forget which type it's green, short tenticals, pale body. It wasn't attached to anything and the LFS said my T5 lighting would be fine for it - despite me stating that I thought MH is better!? Anyway, I don't think its well. After very careful aclimatisation over several our of gradual trickling water in the bag, changing half, then repeating. I placed him gently in the tank.
About two hours later he is lying with everything wide open. His mouth is open and for a while at the start there was what looked like black stringy feaces extruding from its mouth. I have tried to feed it a small bit of prawn, but its not interested at all. Have even placed it near his mouth, but still nothing. The black matter has gone now, but his mouth is wide open.
I am concerned for the health of this poor little blighter - it's about 5 inches in diameter. The clowns aren't bothering with it at all at the moment.
Ideally I'd like to keep him alive and in my tank. He was in the LFS in a normal tank with T5 lighting.
Any ideas anyone?
Stu
I have a 60 Gallon with 40kg of live rock and 9 small common clowns - 4 cleaner shrimp a pistold shrimp, some snails and a few hermits and a small red star fish. Plenty going on and all working well together, very happy and healthy. Water condition is good, water changes, skimmer working well and everything else keeping things in bristol ship shape fashion.
Today I purchased an anemone, I forget which type it's green, short tenticals, pale body. It wasn't attached to anything and the LFS said my T5 lighting would be fine for it - despite me stating that I thought MH is better!? Anyway, I don't think its well. After very careful aclimatisation over several our of gradual trickling water in the bag, changing half, then repeating. I placed him gently in the tank.
About two hours later he is lying with everything wide open. His mouth is open and for a while at the start there was what looked like black stringy feaces extruding from its mouth. I have tried to feed it a small bit of prawn, but its not interested at all. Have even placed it near his mouth, but still nothing. The black matter has gone now, but his mouth is wide open.
I am concerned for the health of this poor little blighter - it's about 5 inches in diameter. The clowns aren't bothering with it at all at the moment.
Ideally I'd like to keep him alive and in my tank. He was in the LFS in a normal tank with T5 lighting.
Any ideas anyone?
Stu
