Sebae question

[coraladdict]

I bought a Sebae two weeks ago ,the colour is light brown with purple tips.It feels firm and the tentacles are a little sticky.It hasn't been eating anything since and it hasn't attached itself .The Sebae is hosting two clowns btw.
What shoild I do or not do??
Thanks

 

[squiddly]

What have you been trying to feed it?

 

[coraladdict]

I tried small pieces of shrimp and small pieces of fish.

 

[squiddly]

I'd try soaking it in "entice" and place it in the anemone's mouth if the mouth looks right, i.e. not gaping or extended.

 

[coraladdict]

Sorry but I don't know what entice is.

 

[squiddly]

Entice is a product you can buy at your local fish store or online that enhances the taste of the food to make the animal want it more.

 

[petoonia]

Try a cube of thawed mysis shrimp in a turkey baster then start adding different foods silversides, krill, squid, or clams. I cut the pieces up so there small enough to go through the turkey baster. Then I squirt it out slowly right by its mouth.

You may want to give it some time to attach. How is your water flow, my sebae likes very little water flow on it. It will settle in it just takes awhile.

Good Luck!!!

 

[raoul]

Mine likes scallops best it seems. Sometimes it's a matter of finding the right food. We also began with a little bit of mysis shrimp from a turkey baster as suggested above.
Good luck!

 

[coraladdict]

I've included a pic of the Sebae in my photo gallery.
Please have a look and tell me what going on.As stated before I've had it for two weeks,it's not eating though I will try some of methods you suggested and it's not attached.It is hosting two black clowns.
Thanks

 

[Raibaru]

That pic doesn't look good. I swear I've seen it recently too. Did you try asking for input before?

The pic looks like the anemone is on its last leg. Is the lighting enough?

 

[coraladdict]

Were you looking at the Sebae pic?

 

[Raibaru]

yea. Sebaes should have fairly long tentacles. Yours are short and stubby. It is also still white and they should be more of a flesh or brown color.

 

[coraladdict]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8569116#post8569116 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Raibaru
yea. Sebaes should have fairly long tentacles. Yours are short and stubby. It is also still white and they should be more of a flesh or brown color.

I know that ,it's the reason I'm here asking questions why it isn't eating and attached.So now everbody can have a look and see what I can do to help it.

 

[squiddly]

Lots of people have said the same thing about white anemones being inherently bad. I don't understand this, since I've seen many in the wild that looked very healthy and were white. Similar to this one:

 

[Raibaru]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8569195#post8569195 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by coraladdict
I know that ,it's the reason I'm here asking questions why it isn't eating and attached.So now everbody can have a look and see what I can do to help it.

Right, that's why I asked what lighting you were using :/

 

[coraladdict]

So , ok they could be white but what about the fact that the tentacles are stubby and it's not eating and not attached?
BTW I have a Tek T5 8 lamp system.

 

[squiddly]

So what are your water parameters? You need to look at salinity, pH, alkalinity, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites and phosphates.

 

[coraladdict]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8569599#post8569599 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by squiddly
So what are your water parameters? You need to look at salinity, pH, alkalinity, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites and phosphates.

pH 8.2
sg 1.025
ca425
alk 9dkh
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
phosphate 0
temp 78
Those # have just been taken.

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8569240#post8569240 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by squiddly
Lots of people have said the same thing about white anemones being inherently bad. I don't understand this, since I've seen many in the wild that looked very healthy and were white. Similar to this one:

You can't truly call a white anemone healthy. I bought a white sebae for $30 about 2 plus months ago. It went from this:

to this

This is a perfect examply of a Heteractis Malu recovering from a bleached state by having the zooxanthellae algae proliferate within the tissue of the anemone. Simply, a healthy anemone looks like the latter pictures.

 

[coraladdict]

Thanks for the pics , this is very informative.The problem with mine is it ain't eating anything and not attaching.I've read on another forum that it could take 2 months for it to adapt and one guy said that he had bought his Sebae attached to a rock.