What is this??!?!?!

[BeccaScott]

Its about the size of a nickle...

 

[frankthtank51]

looks like a baby anemone i believe... do you have bigger ones in your tank?

 

[OrionN]

you got to get it healthier for us to tell. Clear picture of the mouth will help.
I think it is a badly stressed and starve BTA. Feed it, get it better and will see if I am right.

 

[BeccaScott]

No I dont have any others in my tank right now but I have in the past.
What do I feed it since its so small?


I tried to give it a little mysis shrimp but it didnt stick.

 

[OrionN]

If you can, get it in a basket near the top (one of the fresh water breeder cage) There you can feed it what ever it will eat. flakes, bits of food....
Once it start to eat it will eventually get healthy. Of the host anemones, only BTA is hardy enough to get to that shape. Other host anemone died way before getting to this shape.

 

[Jawbone flats]

it looks like the foot of an anenome or an anenome that lost its tentacles ... ive heard of this but never saw one. they will grow back if it is an anenome

 

[frankthtank51]

How along did you have a anemone and what kind? and try some brine shrimp or real fine pieces of silversides cut up holding infront of the mouth until it grabs it...maybe its to weak to catch food

 

[BeccaScott]

Ive moved it to the refugium on the side of my tank to try to target feed him but he wont take it. Ill keep trying though.

A few weeks ago I had a condy and a green bta.
I gave the bubble tip away and the condy fell victim to my filter :/

 

[frankthtank51]

thats really intresting keep us updated with pics and the condition of it

 

[BeccaScott]

Ok so I couldn't get the stuff working properly for the refugium BUT I did manage to feed him I think and hes kind of changed his shape..... he kind of doesnt look like a bubble tip anymore. New pics... what do you think?

 

[OrionN]

There are a lot of non clownfish hosting anemone out there. It is not a BTA. If it is a clownfish hosting anemone it can be a Aurora or Malu.
It look lie it is gaining color and tentacles. Keep feeding it and if you can give it light. Start to collor up, red or pink, it will be nice.

 

[MurphX]

Going by the placement of the tentacles on the body and the few solid white ones mixed in, it's a rock/flower anemone.

 

[bradleym]

Going by the placement of the tentacles on the body and the few solid white ones mixed in, it's a rock/flower anemone.

Interesting first post MurphX (welcome to RC!) I would have to agree with you - it looks like E. Crucifer; a rock/flower anemone.

 

[BeccaScott]

What type of lighting do you think is appropriate in hope that I may get it better?

 

[MurphX]

They don't need a lot of light, but they do love eat. Give it high quality food about once a week (I use market shrimp chopped into very small pieces, and whatever fish food it happens to grab), and it should recover nicely. I had one go from so bleached that it was nearly see through to a deep purple brown in a couple months.


Thanks for the welcome bradleym. I've been lurking, and learning here for awhile. Figured it was time to start giving back lol