Sick Anenome I think

[Blunight77]

Recently my BTA has shrank in size and has very few tenticle's to it. The tenticles it has now are little shrivled nubs. It was a big anenome at one point with alot of large tenticles. I know my water perameters are in the right zone according to the LFS. Over the last 2 weeks I had started to feed my fish and corals with krill for my Niger Trigger and frozen phytoplankton for the coral. Before I only fed with frozen brine.

 

[GreenPuffers]

Are you target feeding it? Small pieces of silverside(no bigger than a pencil erasier) or some mysis shrimp. Hes probably hungry

 

[israelnajar]

Agreed it's probably hungry.

http://www.karensroseanemones.com/starvinganemone.htm

 

[Blunight77]

I gave him some misis shrimp this morning so hopefully food will nurse him back to health

 

[kurt72]

Re: Sick Anenome I think

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9447050#post9447050 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Blunight77
I know my water perameters are in the right zone according to the LFS.

i always listen to the LFS, then come back here to RC to get a second opinion.

 

[Blunight77]

This is hard.. Everytime I buy some type of coral from this perticular LFS something happens to it in my tank. When I buy from another store it thrives..Like my frogspawn. In the last 2 weeks it has trippled in size. I guess you have to be careful were you buy stuff from. Right now my anenome looks worse than that in from the website israelnajar posted

 

[GSMguy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9449335#post9449335 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Blunight77
This is hard.. Everytime I buy some type of coral from this perticular LFS something happens to it in my tank. When I buy from another store it thrives..Like my frogspawn. In the last 2 weeks it has trippled in size. I guess you have to be careful were you buy stuff from. Right now my anenome looks worse than that in from the website israelnajar posted

90% of LFS are worthless

be very carefull

 

[israelnajar]

I agree with GSMguy about 90% of LFS being worthless.

I am lucky enough to have a great LFS.

How old is your nem? When I first got mine it did the same thing as yours. My nem was wild caught so it took about a month and a half to acclimate to being in my tank. It wouldn't eat it always was hiding, and bleached.

This is a couple of days after we got it. 12/21/06

This is 1/14/07, the worst has past but still very bleached and almost no tentacles.

This was taken today fully recovered, 3/11/07.

 

[Blunight77]

My Anenome is about 5 months old now.. It thrived until the last 2 weeks

 

[israelnajar]

Try feeding it some silver sides. When mine wouldn't eat I had to use some soft airline and a syringe to feed it mysis, I did that twice a week until it got used to eating non live food. Now it takes whole silver sides readily, two a day for about 4 days and then nothing for 3 days. It seems to like this schedule, I tried feeding it mysis but they just stick for a while and then I guess the nem lets go. So your nem might just need meatier foods.

Try also dosing reef plus, 5 ml every other day for a week and then 10 ml after that. That might help the zoanthale, and in turn help the nem.

 

[Blunight77]

About an hour ago it spit out the misis shrimp whole.
What are silver sides?

 

[israelnajar]

Silverside

They should have them at your LFS

 

[uscharalph]

This was taken today fully recovered, 3/11/07.

Mine is similar to israelnajar's 3rd picture. He has attached to LR down below and stretches up for food and light.

 

[Blunight77]

My anenome still looks a little better today after i got him to feed some. I think its gonna be a slow recovery process.

 

[55semireef]

Good job on the recovery.

 

[israelnajar]

To me? Thanks.

But Blunight77 still has quite a way to go before his/her nem is recovered.