My rose Anemone looks weird

[plankton99]

When I first got my Rose Anemone it was so cute, nicely round and well proportioned. Now I have two clowns hosting in them, they pick at it, chew on it and now it looks weird and I think it is hideous. has this ever happened to anyone else?

may 2009



Jan 2010

 

[lougotzz]

Yeah if your clowns are really beating it to death that will happen. Ive seen a youtube video of a maroon clown thrashing in a rose, the sore looked very similar to yours.

 

[davelin315]

That's a pretty insensitive and offensive way of describing the appearance...

 

[jb61264]

that's a pretty insensitive and offensive way of describing the appearance...

+1

 

[tahoe61]

Shrunken Anemone

Shrunken Anemone

That anemone is either not getting enough light or it needs to be fed.

 

[plankton99]

That's a pretty insensitive and offensive way of describing the appearance...

Yeah, I guess the title is offensive, thanks for bringing that to my attention, a better word would have been "frayed" or "disfigured" Sorry.... I meant "retarded" in the true definition of the word, not a reference to someone's disability.


Anyhow, do you think that I should remove the clowns and see if the anemone recovers to a normal look?

 

[plankton99]

That anemone is either not getting enough light or it needs to be fed.

It gets plenty of light and i feed it about 1/2 inch silverside every friday. It also shrivels down to nothing for a few hours 3-4 times a week at random times. My water params are perfect, so I have no idea what is going on except for the clowns beating it up.

 

[MazdaSPD3]

Ive had my true perc pair beat the hell outta my RBTA but they stopped and the tentacles grew back with a vengeance within a couple of weeks.

Long as they eventually stop, I think the nem will be fine.

 

[Neogenocide]

How about the 2 liter bottle trick to keep the clowns out of it while it recovers?

Scott

 

[plankton99]

How about the 2 liter bottle trick to keep the clowns out of it while it recovers?

Scott

OK I'll bite... what is the 2 L bottle trick?

 

[WDLV]

I have one that looks worse in the same way. It's been chewed up pretty good by my leucs and also by those little calcarious feather dusters. The tentacles look like a bug infested tree limb.
I moved it (and the leucs) recently. So, maybe it will grow out of it.

 

[Neogenocide]

OK I'll bite... what is the 2 L bottle trick?

Cut a 2 liter bottle in half, punch it full of holes so that you still get some flow through it, then cover it. Will keep the clowns out of it while it hopefully recovers.

Scott

 

[garygb]

I would remove the clownfish. When the anemone gets larger, then you can introduce another clown. I prefer to keep natural symbionts together myself, for E. quadricolor that would be a tomato, maroon, clarkii, among others.