lilyost4290
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About three months ago I bought a super bleached sebae from a small pet store and not even a fish specialty store. It was small, maybe two inches across and almost all white except for its tips. It was still sticky though and the mouth was closed.
Now everything I had read was that these anemones were particularly hard to keep, but since the nem was $15 bucks I figured I'd try to save it from a slow painful death at the LFS in their tank full of maroons and clarkiis.
I have had bad luck with nems in the past. They are all healthy for about a month and then my clowns move in and kill them in about two weeks. But I still figured I'd take the chance and at the first sign of stress from the nem I'd move the clowns to another tank until the nem settles in and grows large enough to accomodate my pair of ocellaris.
So I get the nem home and place it in a high light high medium flow area in the sand right at the base of my rocks, away from my corals and with enough room to grow and be the tank centerpiece. I put it in the tank after a two hour drip and place it in the area i set up. It grabs on immediately but after an hour lets go and lands face down in the sand. I flip it over; same thing happens again. I turn the flow off for a day thinking maybe it just needs to grab on stronger, but it moves to the corner of my tank in the lowest flow area possible. It finally sticks there, but about two inches off the sandbed attached to the rocks.
I know they are sand dwellers but at this point I'm just glad it stays attached. However, the sebae is directly under an all blue par38 spotlight. The nem only receives the blue light, but I would assume if it was unhappy it would have moved. After a week, everything is good. Its still sticky and eating, the mouth is tight and it opens fully during the day. Then my female clown moved in. I thought for sure that it was done for, with the huge clown in her, the lack of light and flow, plus already being bleached.
But after about three months the nem seems completely fine. It hasnt moved since and the clown doesnt look to annoy it at all. And apparently its getting enough light from the all blue spotlight. Its even getting brown back in the tentacles so I know it is thriving in my system.
So whats the deal with this species? Are they as hard to keep as is often reported or did I just get the little sebae engine that could who just won't die? It seems like mine has gone through every potential disaster in the world and still is alive.
Now everything I had read was that these anemones were particularly hard to keep, but since the nem was $15 bucks I figured I'd try to save it from a slow painful death at the LFS in their tank full of maroons and clarkiis.
I have had bad luck with nems in the past. They are all healthy for about a month and then my clowns move in and kill them in about two weeks. But I still figured I'd take the chance and at the first sign of stress from the nem I'd move the clowns to another tank until the nem settles in and grows large enough to accomodate my pair of ocellaris.
So I get the nem home and place it in a high light high medium flow area in the sand right at the base of my rocks, away from my corals and with enough room to grow and be the tank centerpiece. I put it in the tank after a two hour drip and place it in the area i set up. It grabs on immediately but after an hour lets go and lands face down in the sand. I flip it over; same thing happens again. I turn the flow off for a day thinking maybe it just needs to grab on stronger, but it moves to the corner of my tank in the lowest flow area possible. It finally sticks there, but about two inches off the sandbed attached to the rocks.
I know they are sand dwellers but at this point I'm just glad it stays attached. However, the sebae is directly under an all blue par38 spotlight. The nem only receives the blue light, but I would assume if it was unhappy it would have moved. After a week, everything is good. Its still sticky and eating, the mouth is tight and it opens fully during the day. Then my female clown moved in. I thought for sure that it was done for, with the huge clown in her, the lack of light and flow, plus already being bleached.
But after about three months the nem seems completely fine. It hasnt moved since and the clown doesnt look to annoy it at all. And apparently its getting enough light from the all blue spotlight. Its even getting brown back in the tentacles so I know it is thriving in my system.
So whats the deal with this species? Are they as hard to keep as is often reported or did I just get the little sebae engine that could who just won't die? It seems like mine has gone through every potential disaster in the world and still is alive.
