Sebae

[cdeboard]

I acquired a large bleached sebae (white with purple tips). Is probably 8" or so. Is quite healthy (for being bleached). They had it under some low light pcs at the LFS. I have 250w halides. (bulbs are dying, have 20ks on the way in the mail). I know the h. crispa is a sand dweller. I thought maybe too much light so I am only running one of my halides.
It keeps jamming itself completely under the rockwork in a small hole. You can see various parts of it coming out of the rocks as if a large person was wearing too small of a shirt LOL I moved it out once and it moved back at night. Is it safe to leave it there in this state, I know it is seemingly happy there because it returned to the same place twice just not sure if being jammed in the rockwork would harm it.

 

[davocean]

I would slowly acclimate it back to stronger light.
Leave it be for now.
They can come back, mine was heavily bleached on purchase, and when it does they seem to love all the light you can give them, and decent to strong flow as well.

 

[davocean]

This was mine at purchase, heavily bleached, typical Petco nem from way back.

And this is what it became.

 

[cdeboard]

Awesome thanks for the info. I will just let it be and keep a close eye on it. Run one halid for now. Just afraid of how my new bulbs are gonna toss a wrench into the light acclimation. We will see what happens. I love the nem. Just wish he would attach in a decent spot.

 

[cdeboard]

Also, it could be due to flow. What kind of flow do they like? The place it keeps moving to is really low flow. The places it is moving from is a higher flow area. Nothing crazy but one of the highest points in my tank.

 

[cdeboard]

EDIT
Just read your decent to strong flow part davocean.. dont know how i missed that the first time. Thanks. Will acclimate to both and hope for the best and most of all be patient. LOL I just want to enjoy it now.

 

[jasonrp104]

IMO, you have to see what it likes for flow. My crispa seems to hate anything more than just enough to move the tentacles.

 

[davocean]

IMO, you have to see what it likes for flow. My crispa seems to hate anything more than just enough to move the tentacles.

Tank size or PH placement may affect this, I mean I wouldn't recommend blasting them, but most people's exp seems they can tolerate or even thrive in much heavier flow conditions compared to other nems.
For this reason it worked out pretty well for me having one in a mixed reef w/ sps and fairly heavy flow, like 40-60x turnover.

 

[Amphiprion]

When I still had mine, she was in well over 100x turnover. The orientation relative to the anemone and type of flow is extremely important. I modified all my powerheads for much, much lower velocity, which helped out quite a bit.