Sebae problem

[kapella]

Hello,
My White Sebae anemone is not doing so well… I had it for about 3 month now.

At first one of the clowns found a home in it, after awhile clown moved out to another anemone. It had been sitting behind a rock with little light, not eating anything for past 2 month, in the corner of the tank facing back wall. I’ve been trying to directly feed it with various foods and it will not eat… I’ve been giving fish roe to the clown that would stick it in anemone’s mouth and it spits it out. It’s now half the size since purchased.

I have 2 more anemones in my tank, one of them was bleached when I purchased him and he gained his color back and doing great in about 2 month also.

Any ideas?

 

[Toddrtrex]

What are the other two anemones that are in that tank with it?

 

[kapella]

I am not sure what they are... but they look almost identical to one another, not that the bleached one got it's color back

I think it's Pink Tip... Here is what it looks like...

 

[kapella]

Should I move it to better light? C'mon guys... any suggestions?

 

[Toddrtrex]

The other one sort of looks like a BTA, but not 100% sure. But it doesn't look all that happy either.

What type of lights do you have, and what are your current water parameters. (( and "fine" "good" and "perfect" isn't an answer, real numbers help a great deal ))

Are you running carbon? Sometimes when mixing different types of anemones there will be chemical warfare.

 

[georgie1]

What have you tried to feed it? How long has your tank been up?

 

[garygb]

The "other ones" are BTA's (Entacmea quadricolor).

 

[dorm_reefer21]

its a water quality problem if you ask me, the lighting isnt as much of a problem, sebae nems only require decent PCs and the BTAs will do fine as well, they have color so if it was lighting they would be bleached and spitting out zooxanthellae

 

[kapella]

So water params....

Amm - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0
pH - 8.0
Phoshate - 0

I am running carbon, i do have a small fuge. Lights are Sunpod 2x150w

I've been trying to feed it algae, shrimp, salmon roe.

Pictures were taken whale ago, I will try to post new once. "BTA" looks very healty now... much better then pics

 

[dorm_reefer21]

well then there seems to be nothing wrong, in all honesty the sebae doesnt look bad bbut the spitting food out thing seems a little touchy, i had a bta that would never eat he would do the same thing, but he lived for a while. i got rid of him because i realised i dont like btas.

 

[kapella]

LOL, thanks... I really like this one though...