peppermint shrimp eating sebae anemone?

[CollinT]

I have noticed a bunch of tips (15-20) sitting around the bottom of the tank. I havent caught the shrimp in the act though so im not sure. Also the nem is about 9 or 10 inches wide when open and looking really healthy.

Should i get rid of the shrimp or just fast the eel for a few days i dont really care for the shrimp....

one more question, just wondering if anyone in here has had success with their sebae splitting and if there are any tricks to trigger it.

Thanks

 

[jer77]

At first by your thread title wording I was thinking it was your anemone eating your shrimp, which would make sense. But I'm not to sure on the cause of so many tips of the anemone's tentacles being chopped off. I'm not sure why you would be fasting your eel either. But if you've narrowed down the tentacle nipping to the shrimp you should probably take them out. They probably will eventually not be able to get away soon enough anyway. Don't you have a clownfish that's guarding your sebae? My A. clarkii would be reason enough for any nipping shrimp to stay far from my anemone.

About splitting H. crispa, I have little knowledge of this. I have talked with many people, but this information and most all anemone reproductive behavior is left unknown or undocumented. I'll try and ask some people who may know a little more since this seems to be a common question currently.

 

[Toddrtrex]

How long have you had the Sebae, and what color is it? The reason I ask is because the only time I have had issues with Peps and anemones is when the anemone is first introduces, and/or already stressed. About a year ago I introduce a new Haddoni to my tank, for the first week my pep was bothering it, but once the Haddoni settled in, and was back to normal stickiness the pep stopped bothering it.

As for a Sebae splitting, I have never heard of that happening. Many years ago I had one that was well over 15" across, and it never split. I lost it shorty after a power outage, and it didn't split then either -- common with BTAs during stress.

 

[CollinT]

i guess i should put a little more effort into the titles of my posts but im not really sure if the problem has continued since my last post. Im sorry lol I was just joking about fasting the eel because if i did the shrimp would become lunch and i have a 4 inch maroon hosting which i got about a month ago and she hardly ever leaves the anemone, she even feeds it! thats exciting to watch! i actually moved the shrimp to this tank from my other one because he was eating my new xenia (beginner reefer here), so i have no where else to put him. but after seeing the way the xenia grows, i might put him back =) jk

ive had the sebae for about 3 months now and my tanks about a year old, its pretty white with purple tips, got it for 30 dollars, is that a good price???

Also is it normal for a tip to be growing off another tip? i dont really know how to describe it other than saying it reminds me of a snake with two heads or something like that...

anyways, any feed back or tips would be greatly appreciated! thanks

 

[Toddrtrex]

White color isn't a good sign, and if it was white when you bought, $30 was too much -- IMO.

Unfortunately, sebaes are commonly sold in a bleached (( white )) condition, which isn't a healthy state.

What size tank do you have, and what lights?

 

[CollinT]

well at its size, it seemed like a deal to me. i was aware that it was bleached when i bought it. my tank is a 55 gallon and i am using the Reef Sun bulbs for lighting. i know that they arent exactly T5's or metal halide but the anemone looks very healthy to me. its foot is planted nicely to the rock and its been fully open since the first week i put it in the tank. also its almost at mid level in the tank.

thanks

 

[Toddrtrex]

What are "reef sun bulbs" ? Are they normal florescent bulbs? If so, how many, and what wattage?

 

[CollinT]

There are two, one for each side. They are florescent but they claim to support photosynthetic corals and inverts. It says on the box "50/50 combination of 6500k trichromatic daylight phosphor and actinic 420 phosphor in the same lamp". Each bulb was 20 bucks so they cant be complete crap. The store I bought the anemone from said they should be fine and i just visited my old high school marine biology teacher to pick up some LR today and she said they should work just fine, she wrote her dissertation on the algae living in anemones.

 

[Toddrtrex]

So you have 2 NO ( normal output ) florescent bulbs, are these it?
http://www.petco.com/product/10386/Zoo-Med-Reef-Sun-50/50-Bulbs.aspx

Is this for your 12 gallon that you mentioned in another post? If that is the case, the tank isn't going to be big enough for a Sebae (( and IMO, any hosting anemone )), and if those lights that I linked are the ones that you have, there won't be enough light.

Heck, even if you have a bigger tank, those bulbs aren't going to cut it.

 

[CollinT]

no this is for the 55 gallon tank that i mentioned in this post when you asked how big the tank was. IMO, the prices for the lights im "supposed" to have are a little ridiculous. my theory is, if the dang light can grow algae, which it does, why is it not sufficient for an animal that receives nourishment from not so very different algae? i feel like i could have written a paper in my social problems class about aquarium lighting. however, I do agree that the anemone would probably be better off with a more powerful light but it can still survive with the ones i have and it has been.

You see, i knew my lights weren't going to please you right off the bat when you asked about them when it had very little to do with my post. I just answered your question to see if you were actually going to tell me what i already knew. I was hoping you might do it in a helpful, nice manner. but no, you even went out and researched the lights i had so you could point out that they suck. i swear, i read these forums and more times than not, i see members that sit there waiting for a new hobbyist to get on and ask some dumb question so they can jump all over them, letting them know that their doing it all wrong and their tanks are completely inadequate. dont get me wrong, there are a lot of helpful people out there.

 

[bmac]

I think he was asking all the questions to provide you with the info needed for proper husbandry. You can live on bread and water alone but why would you. Same with youe nem. It might be able to survive on NO lighting( not sure but doubtful) but it most likely will survive and recover from the bleaching under the proper lighting for the anemone.

 

[Toddrtrex]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14953652#post14953652 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CollinT
no this is for the 55 gallon tank that i mentioned in this post when you asked how big the tank was. IMO, the prices for the lights im "supposed" to have are a little ridiculous. my theory is, if the dang light can grow algae, which it does, why is it not sufficient for an animal that receives nourishment from not so very different algae? i feel like i could have written a paper in my social problems class about aquarium lighting. however, I do agree that the anemone would probably be better off with a more powerful light but it can still survive with the ones i have and it has been.

You see, i knew my lights weren't going to please you right off the bat when you asked about them when it had very little to do with my post. I just answered your question to see if you were actually going to tell me what i already knew. I was hoping you might do it in a helpful, nice manner. but no, you even went out and researched the lights i had so you could point out that they suck. i swear, i read these forums and more times than not, i see members that sit there waiting for a new hobbyist to get on and ask some dumb question so they can jump all over them, letting them know that their doing it all wrong and their tanks are completely inadequate. dont get me wrong, there are a lot of helpful people out there.

I "went out of my way" to research the lights you have, because you would not answer a simple question --- which was what lights do you have. You have a white/bleached anemone, so I was just attempting to gather as much information from you, which you didn't want to give --- to try to help it, and you. Sorry that you feel I was "asking dumb questions". I like your backhanded insult about how "members" (( and I know you are referring to me )) sit back and jump on people. And 3 months is not considered surviving.

However, since you seem more interested in being defensive and making backhanded insult then trying to take advise, I will wish you and the anemone good luck.