I have a 34 gal Solana set-up. 2 percs, 1 coral beauty, 1 6-line wrasse, plus various snails, hermits, and a sand star. I bought my first LTA a week ago. When it was taken out of the tank at the store, it retracted as I'd been told to look for and seemed to do well for about 4 days. It had anchored with its back to a piece of live rock and my percs seemed interested. On the 5th day, the anemone had begun to float around the tank, was quite small, and most of the tentacles were shrunken. I did some quick research, tried to feed some table shrimp, and discovered the anemone was completely unable to hold the food. Based on that, I went ahead and removed it from the tank. When I did, the anemone had almost no structure at all so I went ahead and disposed of it. I have my water tested weekly and everything looks good. Any suggestions on what may have happened?
S.A.D. (Sudden Anemone Death)
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NYIntensity
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Re: S.A.D. (Sudden Anemone Death)
Yep....you probably threw away a healthy specimen. Chances are the anemone was purging itself - if I can catch mine doing it, I'll post a picture. It looks horrendous, but it's just its way of going to the bathroom. I don't know why it would have let go; did any change of flow occur, or was there any direct flow on it?
Yep....you probably threw away a healthy specimen. Chances are the anemone was purging itself - if I can catch mine doing it, I'll post a picture. It looks horrendous, but it's just its way of going to the bathroom. I don't know why it would have let go; did any change of flow occur, or was there any direct flow on it?
No change of flow and it seemed to have picked a place it liked. Within about a day, it had moved about 1/3 of the way around the tank then stayed put. The bottom looked really rough and there was tissue stuck to the substrate. Any chance my necarious (sp? sorry) snails were munching on the bottom? That thought just occurred to me. I'm a complete newbie. My tank is only about 8 weeks old. I'm going to kick myself if my paranoia about contaminating my tank caused me to throw out a healthy anemone!! Thanks for the info. If you ever get a pic, I would really appreciate it.
Yankees2519
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sorry to thread jack, but is it bad to have direct flow on the anemone? i thought strong current was good for them
Re: Re: S.A.D. (Sudden Anemone Death)
sorry to thread jack, but is it bad to have direct flow on the anemone? i thought strong current was good for them
kindafun
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I have bubble tip anemones and they don't like strong flow, just moderate so they wave around.
Most will recommend not trying to keep an anemone until your tank has been up and stable for 6 months or so. Looks like you accelerated that a bit. I'm not saying that's what the problem was, but you need to have a good stable tank to keep these critters.
They will move around if they don't like where they are and may float to get there.
Most will recommend not trying to keep an anemone until your tank has been up and stable for 6 months or so. Looks like you accelerated that a bit. I'm not saying that's what the problem was, but you need to have a good stable tank to keep these critters.
They will move around if they don't like where they are and may float to get there.
