Josh40996
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Okay, where do I start? For a few years I have had a green condylactis anemone that's had quite a history with me with it eating corals and a clownfish, but that's not important at present. A few months ago, I torn down my 15 gallon cube to convert it to a planted tank and moved the sebae clownfish inhabiting it, into my 55 gallon reef tank with the anemone. Almost immediately the clownfish took to the anemone, which was a surprise but I didn't complain. However, the anemone did. After a short while, the anemone started to look a little unhappy and began to move about which it hadn't done since introduced. The clownfish continued harass the anemone, which eventually retreated behind the rocks and into the darkness. I allowed the anemone to have a moment to itself and after about a week without him moving back In to the open, I decided it was necessary to intervene and turn the rock upside down and bring the anemone back into the light. However, the anemone had developed an affinity for the darkness and immediately went back into hiding. After a few weeks of trying to persuade the anemone to see the light, I became less controlling and allowed to anemone to do as it pleased. A few months passed and the anemone was forgotten about and it did not show its face. It was MIA.
So after several months of the anemone being left to its own devices, it shown its face. After not receiving light for several months, the anemone was weak, bleached and very very small. He had gone from his amazingly long and bright green tenticals and a 3-4 inch diameter oral disc, to a ghost white half inch diameter anemone with half centimetre stubs as tenticals. I had mixed feelings about the situation as I was very happy to see the anemone is alive and has come into the light, but was upset to see him in this state. After a couple weeks, the anemone has began to develop some colour back but is still bleached and his tenticals have slightly elongated to around 1.5-2 cm in length. The anemone is slowly beginning to start its recovery.
So now, here are my concerns/questions.
The anemones recovery is very slow, it has taken well over a month to notice the little improvement in his health. I would like to start feeding him again but I fear his is still too Ill of health to get any benefits from eating and even fear it causing more harm than good. If the anemone would accept some food, would you suggest I do begin feeding?
Another concern of mine is that the sebae clownfish is beginning to pay the anemone some attention once again and I have seen him brushing up against it the odd time. I worry he will send the anemone back into hiding. Is there anyway I could discourage this behaviour or is the removal of one of the animals the only solution?
I would like to apologise for the rambling and would condense it to a more bite size chunk of text, but it is late and so will try editing it tomorrow if possible. I will also try to add a current image of the anemone and would like to keep a record of its progress here by regularly uploading images weekly.
I thank you for reading my blur of words and hope you can offer some advice.
Happy Reefin!
Okay, where do I start? For a few years I have had a green condylactis anemone that's had quite a history with me with it eating corals and a clownfish, but that's not important at present. A few months ago, I torn down my 15 gallon cube to convert it to a planted tank and moved the sebae clownfish inhabiting it, into my 55 gallon reef tank with the anemone. Almost immediately the clownfish took to the anemone, which was a surprise but I didn't complain. However, the anemone did. After a short while, the anemone started to look a little unhappy and began to move about which it hadn't done since introduced. The clownfish continued harass the anemone, which eventually retreated behind the rocks and into the darkness. I allowed the anemone to have a moment to itself and after about a week without him moving back In to the open, I decided it was necessary to intervene and turn the rock upside down and bring the anemone back into the light. However, the anemone had developed an affinity for the darkness and immediately went back into hiding. After a few weeks of trying to persuade the anemone to see the light, I became less controlling and allowed to anemone to do as it pleased. A few months passed and the anemone was forgotten about and it did not show its face. It was MIA.
So after several months of the anemone being left to its own devices, it shown its face. After not receiving light for several months, the anemone was weak, bleached and very very small. He had gone from his amazingly long and bright green tenticals and a 3-4 inch diameter oral disc, to a ghost white half inch diameter anemone with half centimetre stubs as tenticals. I had mixed feelings about the situation as I was very happy to see the anemone is alive and has come into the light, but was upset to see him in this state. After a couple weeks, the anemone has began to develop some colour back but is still bleached and his tenticals have slightly elongated to around 1.5-2 cm in length. The anemone is slowly beginning to start its recovery.
So now, here are my concerns/questions.
The anemones recovery is very slow, it has taken well over a month to notice the little improvement in his health. I would like to start feeding him again but I fear his is still too Ill of health to get any benefits from eating and even fear it causing more harm than good. If the anemone would accept some food, would you suggest I do begin feeding?
Another concern of mine is that the sebae clownfish is beginning to pay the anemone some attention once again and I have seen him brushing up against it the odd time. I worry he will send the anemone back into hiding. Is there anyway I could discourage this behaviour or is the removal of one of the animals the only solution?
I would like to apologise for the rambling and would condense it to a more bite size chunk of text, but it is late and so will try editing it tomorrow if possible. I will also try to add a current image of the anemone and would like to keep a record of its progress here by regularly uploading images weekly.
I thank you for reading my blur of words and hope you can offer some advice.
Happy Reefin!
