My anemone doesn't like light anymore.

[Tarkin]

After about a year of growing like mad, eating regularly and never turning down food, even getting hold of a coral beauty once My carpet anemone decided to go on a walkabout...

For about 1 week it walked over the tank, to various places, high, low, sand, rock, crevices, etc, anywhere you can think of... It finally settled on a really low place in my tank hidden away from the light and doesn't seem to want to come out of that hole. It is pretty well bleached, but not completely, and the foot and mouth both appear to be in very good shape. It also still eats food if I feed it.

I currently have 2 x 175 20K MH bulbs, Coralvue as I recall.
2x65 Watt Custom sealife PC's, the 1/2 10k, Other 1/2 Actnic
bulbs.

It's an 75/80 gallon tank with a Remora Pro/Mag 3 on it...

Amonia, Nitrate, Nitrite, and Phosphate are undetectable. I don't recall the exact numbers as I'm at work right now, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary for water chemistry according to the FAQ that is linked to in this forum.

Any tips of ideas what I should do? Should I be moving the rock the anemone is on up towards the light? Is there a different spectrum/combo of lighting I should be using? Any ideas at all?

Later
C

 

[dantodd]

I am not a specialist on carpets but I'm sure those that do have the info you need will be able to do more if you ID the anemone to species.

 

[Tarkin]

My best guess is a Stichodactyla Haddoni, or Gigantea.

I put a picture of it in the gallery that was taken about 2 months after purchasing it.

later
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[Juck]

The pic in your gallery looks like a Merten's to me,,, I think I see verrucae on the underside but it's not very clear. If there are no Verrucae then Haddoni


I had a similar experience with my Haddoni a few months ago,, I let an aiptasia breakout get out of hand and they stung the carpet into moving for the first time in nearly 3 years.

I kept feeding it every couple of days and let it wander. It took about a month to find a spot it liked (after I swapped-out all the LR).

Have you changed the bulbs recently? Done a big water change? Got aiptasia?

 

[Tarkin]

Juck,

I used to have some other kind of nuisance that looked like Aiptasia, but it didn't look exactly like them. Those things have been gone forever, and long since before the Anemone started moving around.

I do about a 5 gallon water change every 2-3 weeks...

And the PC's are about 3-4 months old, and the Halides the same.

But, again, the anemone started moving about 2-3 months before I changed the lights so I don't think it was a reaction to them.

later
C

 

[Tarkin]

No one else has any other comments?

Thanks
C

 

[InvertLover]

if your lightbulbs are a year old they most likely need to be replaced.

*edit *

woops, missed the part about your lights. Other then that, I'm not much help =/.

 

[Tarkin]

All PC's and Halides are Less than 6 months old... Thanks though...

Later
C

 

[nathenvan]

i have read alot about anemone, and i hope this is correct. maybe your anemone is splitting, you should keep an eye on it. don't try to move it, if it doesn't like the spot it will move by itself. well hope that help.

 

[Tarkin]

I'm pretty sure it's not splitting, it's actually bleaching itself it hid itself so far down

Later
C