Qustions?????

[wnecbubba74]

Okay my girlfriend got me a nice little anemone and I believe it’s a candy tip anemone. It’s white with purple tips. Seeing this is my first experiences with an anemone I have a couple questions.

1) Will a candy tip host a clown (thats what the GF was hoping).

2) I’ve had it for about a week and it seed like it was doing fine until today. I came home from work and it was fully opened and looking healthy. Left the room for a couple of minutes and when I returned it appeared that had sucked it’s entire body (well all the tentacles) into its mouth for about a 30 minutes. It has reopened but tentacles don’t seem as full as they were before.

 

[redvipe2010]

There is no such thing as a candy tip anemone. It sounds more like a bleached Sebae. Got a pic?

 

[wnecbubba74]

LOL thanks for that info i guess the GF was mislead with the name. I'll see if i can get a pic of it

 

[Anemone]

I'm betting it's a Condy - short for Condylactis anemone. If so, it's an Atlantic anemone, which means it doesn't host clownfish in the wild (clowns are all Pacific species). However, clowns host in all sorts of things in captivity, so clowns may host in a Condylactis (it's happened before).

Kevin

 

[55semireef]

Does your "candy-tip" anemone look like this?

If it does, then you have a Condylactis- Condy anemone.

 

[wnecbubba74]

Thats what it looks like

Thanks for the help on IDing it.

But what about the behaivor of it Sucking its entire body into its mouth? Is that normal? BAD?

 

[GSMguy]

have you fed it ?

 

[Big Brother]

It will often do this after eating, or if its sleeping sometimes.

 

[Dwarfpufferfish]

My condy does host a pair of breeding osc. clowns. Durring its acclimation period, condies will often do odd things. Dont worry to much, it should be fine!

 

[illcssd]

"or if its sleeping sometimes"
Anemones dont sleep. Period. They release water and waste by deflating, but there is not sleeping anemones. Don't pass misleading information around please.

 

[MarinaP]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9466217#post9466217 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by illcssd
Don't pass misleading information around please.

I agree with illcssd.

This forum is not not like MySpace

 

[cschweitzer]

Anems don't sleep per se, but they do retract at nighttime. Also, zooxanthellae, the natural symbiont algae that gives them color gains its energy from the light, when not producing energy, the metabolic rate significantly reduces, respiration decreses, and the energy that has been stored throughout the day is being utilized to rejuvenate it. Same reasoning behind having a night cycle on an anem tank...they would not survive without it. So, no, anems do not have brains to "turn off" during a sleep cycle to exacerbate their subconcious, but yes, they do go through a daily cycle of slowing down, deflating, and closing every night, which I would best describe as a sleep cycle to a new reefer trying to figure out about them.

Now granted, sleep may not be the correct word. Per Webster's definition:
The natural periodic suspension of conciousness during which the bodily powers are restored.

At least half the definition pertains. Semantics are a difficult thing to argue on a forum.

 

[MarinaP]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9466410#post9466410 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cschweitzer
Anems don't sleep per se, but they do retract at nighttime.

Maybe yours do, but mine don't.

 

[cschweitzer]

What kind of anem do you have? My BTA's(three of them all in different tanks) all retract at night. One(8+") goes under the rock where its base is locked down. Another closes, shrinks, but does not go under a rock(due to location of its base). The last does not shrink as much, but it definitely deflates at night. My anems are fed(sometimes overfed, but never expelling waste, so they are using it all), have plenty of light, and have a "sleep cycle." You may have differing experiences, but I've never seen healthier(not to say there aren't, I've just never seen one) BTA's than the ones I own and all of them close shop at night. Of course, every anem is different, even within the same species, and mine are all of the same DNA(clones) that have grown from bleached out 1" anems to over 6" for the smallest of the three.

I'll try to get better shots, but here is a small example of what I'm describing.

Morning, within an hour of waking up(lights going on):

Evening before feeding:

And evening before retracting:

At night when the lights are off that whole rock(12+") looks barren. When the lights come on, it is almost completely covered with pink.

 

[cschweitzer]

Here's another morning picture:

 

[wnecbubba74]

I've seen it close up at night when the light goes off and it didnt look like that. This time it was in the middle day wide opened and in one sec it looked like it had sucked itself into its mouth.

 

[RedEyeElf]

did anyone mention condy's tend to swallow hosts?
they don't know any better

 

[wnecbubba74]

Sorry everyone but whats a BTA and the one i have is a Cody

 

[RedEyeElf]

bubble tip anemone

 

[wnecbubba74]

Hey thanks