Red Haddoni Help?

[METZCOOL]

I received a Haddoni on Friday 2/19 and he has stayed where I dug a hole in the 4" sand base near the live rock base, mouth is tightly closed and is staying inflated and only deflating when the lights go out. On 2/23 I fed him 1 silverside chopped into 4 pieces for the first time and he ate all of them.
I have turned off all flow pumps except for the main circulation and his foot looks fine and is sticky as he has sand particles all over it.
My question is he shows no intrest in attaching to anything, is it to soon or should he attached by now?
Is not attaching a bad sign? For people who have these, how long before yours attached?

Parameters:
Salinity 1.026
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0-5
Phosphate 0
PH 8.0 - 8.2
ORP 390 - 400
Temp 79.6 - 80.6
Calcium 425
KH 10
Mag. 1400
300 gallon tank setup for 19 months and all livestock doing well.

 

[OrionN]

Most of the time when I add a new anemone into my tank I put a small concave rock on the column of the anemone. I do this when they do not attach to anything when I bring them home from the store so that they don't flow all over the place. They will usually attach to it shortly.

 

[METZCOOL]

Minh,
Does the rest of the stuff I posted sound good?

 

[OrionN]

It seem fine. Try to feed him less at first. 1/2-1cc every few days at the most. When he tolerate feeding, then you can feed more. IMO, it is really detrimental to them, at least my anemone always looks very ill if they cannot digest all the food and have to spit them out.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Any of mine that have made it were attached within minutes of being introduced into the tank. Granted, they did move a bit after that, but moved while still attached to the bottom glass.

Any of the ones that didn't attach shortly after being introduced didn't make it.

 

[StillerNat]

you got a pic? I hope Todd is wrong about it dying cause i am sure red carpets are not cheap!

 

[METZCOOL]

Wish I did but Canon had a factory recall and I have no camera right now.

 

[Frank Giacobbe]

I think things are going well. I never try feeding my anemones until they are settled in.

 

[StillerNat]

yeah i never fed any of my nems directly. i read too many horror stories of the dying from possibly contaminated silversides. you could try indirectly feeding it. i feed my tank with mysis and cyclops and 2 to 3 times a week i put in some oyster eggs.since i am sure with all that it is getting some food for sure. ever since i added cyclops, my nem has stopped wondering around the tank for the first time in 8 months. it never stayed put for more than a few days. it hasnt moved in a month now and bubbles up very nicely.
i know yours isnt a bta, but give it some time and maybe indirect feeding is something to try out.

 

[bradhass87]

I had the same problem with my carpet. I dug it a hole and it sat there for a few days but about a week after having it one night it came up out of the hole and started to move around the tank. They move very slow and kind of "walk" with their large "face." When I got up in the morning it settled in the middle of my tank and has been there ever since(about 4 months)

I used to feed it silversides but the more I read the less I liked to use them. I read that you want to use smaller pieces about 1/4 inch of what ever you feed and right now I feed just plain uncooked or cocktail shrimp. My carpet loves it! I feed every few days about two or three pieces. Yesturday he ate one of my chromis's...the darn thing swam right into him...

But the behavior you are discribing sounds normal to me. Mine would inflate and deflate.

Here are some pics of what mine did.

This is mine after one day.

The next few days it would inflate and deflate like so.

This is when it dug it's self up and started moving.

This is where it settled.

This is a picture of it from yesturday.

 

[Slickcg33]

I'm sorry but i couldn't help but to LOL @ the picture sequence. This anemone reminded me of a toddler just starting to walk... Standing and then thump back on the ground on the other side.