Long Tentacle Anemone is this normal?

[Cozzmolot]

I bought a LTA from premium aquatics last friday and it was very beautiful in the tank with nice green hint to it as well as bright neon green tips. I did the stickyness test to it that I had read about doing to make sure it was healthy and still eating.

I brought it home and did a two hour drip acclimation as well as temp. acclimation as that is what I have done with all my other livestock and have not had any trouble. Anyways I'm a little worried about it over the last two hours.

The first location I put it was kind of nestles between sand bed and rock and it looked appealing to me but I was told it will really move wherever it wants. So after about an hour and a half of being in that location I noticed it started to release itself and come out of the cave area it had. I had an even bigger cave area on the opposite side of the tank so I moved it there. It sat there all of Saturday and until about 8:00pm est Sunday and it all of a sudden just detached itself.

I turned off one of my powerhead to kind of allow it to move to wherever it wanted but I am worried that it is not moving normally. I guess the question I am asking is, What kind of behavior can I expect it to have in the first week or so of having the anemone. I've just never seen one move and don't know how they usually do so and I am just worried about it and I don't want it to damage itself on my rock system. Is there any way to "force" it to stay somewhere without doing any harm to it, or, must I just let it wander about until it finds where it wants to settle down?

Any advice, answers or suggestions are welcome.

Greg

 

[anemoneguy]

i always have tried to put ltas in a tight place so the could wedge themselfs in. i have seen them out in the open sand beds in some tanks, but in my exp. they like to wedge under a rock. watch it closley,a nd dont let it get in your power heads. there is a chance there is something in your tank affecting its acclimation. good luck.

 

[Lawrence914]

Greg,

If I was in the same situation, I wouldn't turn off the powerheads (assuming the intakes are properly covered).

An anemone moving around is looking for the right combination of flow, light and food. Changing conditions while it's looking might only cause the animal to move around again later.

kind regards,
Rusty

 

[unbreakable]

yeah like anemoneguy said, just make sure everything is covered. they kind of move and let the current take it around until it finds a good spot in the sand and then burries its foot

 

[melev]

If you have a traveling anemone, you should put some sponge filters around the intakes of any powerhead and your overflow. Once the anemone settles in, you can remove that protection from the pumps.

It will choose a spot of its liking.

 

[Cozzmolot]

Thank you for the quick responses.