Purple Long Tantacle Anemone Care

[Dean Ladd]

I hate joining the "advice" train because you end up getting a million different opinions and you end up trying them all and it just makes things worse. So I reluctantly recommend you do nothing. Don't try to bury it, don't try to feed it. Just reduce the water flow to allow it to settle and grab onto the rock on its own. Once it does that put the flow back to normal and it will "walk" until it finds the sand and buries itself. It may even hide in the rockwork for a while. Eventually it works out. It will find where it wants to go and that's where it will go. There is nothing you can do.

My anemone was a centre-piece - who decided to live at the side of my tank ... I guess she's more of a "side-piece" now. She used to be in the centre for a while, then moved, then came back, then one day moved to the side and has been there since. Just like children and pets, they have their own personalities. I just deal with it.

Agreed!

 

[kikoreefer]

Ok one last question... When is it to late? How will I know it's time to take it out before it crashes my tank?

 

[Dean Ladd]

My personal experience with dying anemones is they just waste away. 1st stop accepting food then bleaching white and then shrink down to nothing. I have never seen one dye and decompose in my system. That is my experience yours my be different. I have a rock flower nem in my 135 and a Rose BTA both started down hill. Both stopped eating and shrunk down to about half there size. My system had gone through a bad period due to me and my lack of maintenance. I finally reengaged into my system and both nems quickly started feeding again and have regained all of there color. Both are still growing back to size though.

As said before just let it be. Give it a chance. If it appears to be decomposing then get it out. But I don't think you will see this happen IMO.