patheticsquid
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So, I made my first big mistake a few days ago, I've been so meticulous with researching things and then I go and do this :/.
Walking into a small fish shop, I start chatting with the owner. After a bit he mentions I should get an Anemone to go in my tank, its beautiful and it might host your clowns. He said he got a shipment in a few days ago, and "they will come out a really nice color, really easy, and are only $20". Never having seen an Anemone besides on the internet before, I didn't know what to expect. The tank has about a 10 bubble tips in it, was bare bottomed, and had them floating around with not great light. Every one was totally white except for minor coloration on the tips. He bagged the one with the most color and I took it home. As soon as we got out of the shop it turned a darkish red with light pink tips, but still faded.
As soon as I got home and put the bag in to heat acclimatize it and setup my drip, I did a bunch of of research on bubble tips, and watched a few videos. Pretty much every video indicated that I should not have made that purchase, both due to the maturity of my tank and the shape the Anemone was in at the store. When trying to place the Anemone in the rock crevice I made for him, I turned him upside down to check his foot as was suggested. The store owner not only did not keep him on a rock, or any surface, but somehow managed to get a very very thin piece of rock (looks like granite shale almost) fully attached. Wearing a thin glove, I scraped it off and put him on the rock. He moved a couple inches to a nicer hiding spot and has been hanging out there ever since.
He is slowly regaining color, red body, pink tips, but is still very faded. When I went home for lunch yesterday he was very extended with much more color, but when I got home from work he was totally shriveled and expelling white stuff, and some undigested food. I was very worried he was dying, but apparently that is how they excrete waste. He tastes all the food I feed him or that falls his way, and I am assuming I overfed for him to excrete that long, and for any of it to come out brown.
Meanwhile, I am doing absolutely everything I can to make the water conditions perfect for him, slowly raised the salinity to 1.025-1.026, brought the calcium and magnesium up and everything has been stable for a while. Trying to keep him un-stressed.
Not too sure what more I can do, I have done quite a bit of research, and it seems at this point it will either get comfortable in the tank or not, and I will have to remove it.
Here's to hoping this doesn't go as poorly as it could! Any tips you guys could provide would be much appreciated. Whether it is how to care for him and bring his color out, or even if I should be giving him away/selling him.
Tank Size: 20 Gallon
Lights: 36w Innovative Marine LEDs
Water Parameters:
Temperature: 80
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 1
Calcium: 400
Magnesium: 1200
Alkalinity: 10 dKH
Salinity: 1.025
Thanks!
Walking into a small fish shop, I start chatting with the owner. After a bit he mentions I should get an Anemone to go in my tank, its beautiful and it might host your clowns. He said he got a shipment in a few days ago, and "they will come out a really nice color, really easy, and are only $20". Never having seen an Anemone besides on the internet before, I didn't know what to expect. The tank has about a 10 bubble tips in it, was bare bottomed, and had them floating around with not great light. Every one was totally white except for minor coloration on the tips. He bagged the one with the most color and I took it home. As soon as we got out of the shop it turned a darkish red with light pink tips, but still faded.
As soon as I got home and put the bag in to heat acclimatize it and setup my drip, I did a bunch of of research on bubble tips, and watched a few videos. Pretty much every video indicated that I should not have made that purchase, both due to the maturity of my tank and the shape the Anemone was in at the store. When trying to place the Anemone in the rock crevice I made for him, I turned him upside down to check his foot as was suggested. The store owner not only did not keep him on a rock, or any surface, but somehow managed to get a very very thin piece of rock (looks like granite shale almost) fully attached. Wearing a thin glove, I scraped it off and put him on the rock. He moved a couple inches to a nicer hiding spot and has been hanging out there ever since.
He is slowly regaining color, red body, pink tips, but is still very faded. When I went home for lunch yesterday he was very extended with much more color, but when I got home from work he was totally shriveled and expelling white stuff, and some undigested food. I was very worried he was dying, but apparently that is how they excrete waste. He tastes all the food I feed him or that falls his way, and I am assuming I overfed for him to excrete that long, and for any of it to come out brown.
Meanwhile, I am doing absolutely everything I can to make the water conditions perfect for him, slowly raised the salinity to 1.025-1.026, brought the calcium and magnesium up and everything has been stable for a while. Trying to keep him un-stressed.
Not too sure what more I can do, I have done quite a bit of research, and it seems at this point it will either get comfortable in the tank or not, and I will have to remove it.
Here's to hoping this doesn't go as poorly as it could! Any tips you guys could provide would be much appreciated. Whether it is how to care for him and bring his color out, or even if I should be giving him away/selling him.
Tank Size: 20 Gallon
Lights: 36w Innovative Marine LEDs
Water Parameters:
Temperature: 80
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 1
Calcium: 400
Magnesium: 1200
Alkalinity: 10 dKH
Salinity: 1.025
Thanks!
