devilsenemy_1
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I bought my first anenome about a week ago (before reading much about them) then came to learn that my anenome pick wasn't such a good one. I picked a ~4" sebae anenome that was a stunning yellow with purple tips, and had a small clarkii clown hosting it in the LFS. I bought the anenome without the clown as I already have a false perc.
After acclimating him to the tank, I set him gently in a lower flow area, which being that its a hexagonal tank there's not a really low flow area. He swirled around the tank slowly for about an hour before coming to a stop in a spot at the sand/rock interface. Then over the course of the next day, he worked himself through the rock to a small hiding place that I could only see him with a flashlight.
At this point I asked questions to local reefkeepers and did some research. I was told to just let him go where he wants and keep an eye on him. I did that for the next 5 days until he moved to a spot where I couldn't see him anywhere. I moved rock until I found him... and he was upside down!
I kept the rock re-arranged for a while and watched him more frequently (about every 30 minutes I'd check him) and he stayed in the same spot (relatively).
Today when I got up, he looked worse more than ever. His mouth was wide open and poking out, tentacles small and deflated, and only about 3/4" thick.
I quickly set up a 10gal tank with a sparse amount of sand in the bottom, a hang on filter, heater, and 96w coralife PC light. He's now in there with ~3 lb chunk of live rock to help with water. The water in the tank was taken out of my big tank and I did a water change on the big one at the same time.
Any help on how to treat him/ things I need to do would help greatly. I doesn't seem like there's very much information on this.
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After acclimating him to the tank, I set him gently in a lower flow area, which being that its a hexagonal tank there's not a really low flow area. He swirled around the tank slowly for about an hour before coming to a stop in a spot at the sand/rock interface. Then over the course of the next day, he worked himself through the rock to a small hiding place that I could only see him with a flashlight.
At this point I asked questions to local reefkeepers and did some research. I was told to just let him go where he wants and keep an eye on him. I did that for the next 5 days until he moved to a spot where I couldn't see him anywhere. I moved rock until I found him... and he was upside down!
I kept the rock re-arranged for a while and watched him more frequently (about every 30 minutes I'd check him) and he stayed in the same spot (relatively).
Today when I got up, he looked worse more than ever. His mouth was wide open and poking out, tentacles small and deflated, and only about 3/4" thick.
I quickly set up a 10gal tank with a sparse amount of sand in the bottom, a hang on filter, heater, and 96w coralife PC light. He's now in there with ~3 lb chunk of live rock to help with water. The water in the tank was taken out of my big tank and I did a water change on the big one at the same time.
Any help on how to treat him/ things I need to do would help greatly. I doesn't seem like there's very much information on this.
side view
top view
