ThRoewer is it not up to you to tell me when to call something "Clown" and when to call the same thing "Amphiprion", it is simply completely my own choice.
And to people reading in general, remember that condylactis are often mistakenly called "Long Tentacle Anemone" but that name refers directly to the Macrodactyla Doreensis. Here, in this debate, I am giving advice about all "anemones WITH long tentacles", which is not to be mistaken with the general name "Long Tentacle Anemone" which only refers to the Macrodactyla and not all anemones WITH long tentacles
The skirts of the ritteri covers the animals disk so that you proud and caring owners, cannot see what is going on with it.
The skirts of the Macrodactyla does not cover the disk and makes it possible to see what it is doing.
If you, after ALL the experience you've got with Nems still say stuff like "Nems does weird things sometimes!" I suggest that you buy and keep a Macrodactyla so you can easily see what it is doing until you UNDERSTAND what they are doing with their skirts ....
This string >was< about a ritteri losing tentacles but because of trollnorms it quickly became about >me<
The ritteri is spitting out tentacles and I actually offered a logical explanation.
- The Nem runs out of energy in the tremendous job of resetting its entire sun-catching-tent or sun-catching-net, aka. the "skirts".
- Meanwhile of running out of energy, the tentacles slide into the mouth area.
- As the Nem then continue to move, tentacles are getting snapped off, which is apparent since the Nem would be digesting the Tentacles if it was intentionally cannibalising them to get added energy.
And there is nothing wrong in using antibiotics with proper care.
There is on the other hand, lots of stuff wrong with trying antibiotics treatment before removing other possible reasons for the Nem not thriving, such as allelopathy.
Like fishes, nems may not all react like the next specimen. Just because one pair of Nems gets along with one another, does not mean all will as a general rule.
If y'all could get those troll habits out of the way so no armies or factories of trolls end up taking over this forum as well, and try to get your heads back to debating the OPs topic.
I (still) suggest that you flush the QT with zoo- and phytoplankton, as the Nem will then take care to funnel the water towards its central disk and mouth, both leading to movement in the oxygen deprived tentacles and to the Nem getting some food that does NOT take energy to digest in the same manner as bigger food stuff.
Ah, yea, nems does react to plankton, perhaps if you kept macrodactyla you would have noticed.
