Rose bulbble tip anemone or rainbow?

[87ford]

I got a bulbble tip and am curious as to why it's got like a green ish tint to its tenticles? I'm worried it's sick but yet I just fed it and it's eating also I look at other pictures online and most have them opened up bigger this one kind of keeps them in tight now idk if it has to do with lighting which I found out I have to upgrade but I ordered them and won't get them till Tuesday will he be ok with just plain no floresent 50/50 bulb for the time beeing?

Also didn't know I had to wait awhile after it cycled the lfs kind of just wanted to get rid of it I see he was also trying to get me to buy tangs ! Which I know need way larger tanks than a 36 gallon but I'm kind of stuck and if I return it I loose money and to be honest I think it would not survive that place the water was yellow! I drip method it and kept taking out water till it was so diluted before putting it in my tank so please don't bash me for putting it in so quickly after it cycled.

Tank readings

8.4 ph
0 ammonia
0 nitrite
5 nitrate


Thanks Tom

 

[alb_56]

Looks healthy to me, but I would probably not go back to that lfs. They act funny sometimes when you first get them, mine shriveled up and vomited some of its plankton/pigment when I first got mine but now it's doing great.

 

[87ford]

Ok thanks also was told to feed it silversides krill and brine shrimp is that ok and should I chop up the silverside cause it looks big or is it ok whole?
Thanks again

Tom

 

[alb_56]

Personally I don't use brine cause they don't have much for nutrition in them. Most people use silversides and krill or something else like rods food. Basically just meaty foods from the ocean work as long as they can fit in its mouth. As far as cutting them up, I wouldn't try to feed it anything to much bigger then it's mouth is, just my opinion though. Oh and mysis shrimp is a pretty common food also.

 

[87ford]

Ok I uses mysis for my fish along with brine and some pellets

 

[knukles55]

I use mysis because they devour it in less than a minute silver side takes to long to eat and my clowns get greedy

 

[87ford]

Yeah I just feed it one last night and it took forever for him to eat it but only ate bits and pieces of it so I'll try to feed it more smaller foods

 

[bjledbetter]

Don't use silversides. Too many people have had problems after feeding them. Nems in the wild are not usually catching whole fish and eating them. and usually will regurgitate large pieces as they cannot digest them quick enough. Krill, shrimp, squid, mysis cut into small pieces are all good foods

 

[davocean]

Don't use silversides. Too many people have had problems after feeding them. Nems in the wild are not usually catching whole fish and eating them. and usually will regurgitate large pieces as they cannot digest them quick enough. Krill, shrimp, squid, mysis cut into small pieces are all good foods

I too stopped feeding silversides for this reason.
I feed raw shrimp, or scallops, cut into small pieces, once a week or every other week, and of course mysis and such get picked up at feeding time here and there.

 

[87ford]

Ok thanks guess I will throw them out what are silversides used for then could I grind it up and feed to fish ?

 

[radiata]

For those of you feeding "mysis", are you talking about PE Mysis (a freshwater shrimp), or a mysis like Hikari which is saltwater in origin, but rather small in size.

 

[87ford]

I know I have a freeze dried one that is really small says for fresh or salt doesn't say the type of mysis

 

[shifty51008]

Pe mysis is what i feed my fish and anemones, they all go nuts for it