Is my Anemone ok?

tobysmurf · #1 12-08-2012, 07:58 PM

First here is a picture from yesterday when I first brought him home:

Here are some shots of him today. Notice his tentacles, they are shorter and many seem very skinny compared to before, and his mouth seems to be sticking out:

Do you think he's ok? If not, any suggestions on what to do? He was really blowing around a lot, so I tried digging a hole for him and he stayed there last night. Today he came out of the hole and blew up against the live rock. His clowns are trying their best to host him but since he's blown against the rock they haven't touched him. My water levels seem pretty decent so I am at a bit of a loss as to why he's shrunk so much.

Suggestions welcome!

Aquattro · #2 12-08-2012, 08:01 PM

Pretty sure there aren't any white anemones in the wild, that one is probably well bleached. I'd put a basket over it to keep it out of the pumps and clowns away from it, and feed it a fair bit to get some color back.

tobysmurf · #3 12-08-2012, 09:03 PM

I was told that it was a sand anemone by Wai's in Calgary (the LFS it came from). It looks more like a bleached long tentacle though, any ideas on that? Also what should I be feeding him? Any particular kind of chopped up fish? I see that there is great debate on what to feed them and if, so I'd love recommendations.

Aquattro · #4 12-08-2012, 09:13 PM

Bleached LTA sounds right. Sand anemone?? hmm. I think little bits of fish are fine, although others probably know a lot more about them than I do.

Aquattro · #5 12-08-2012, 09:41 PM

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/anemone.html

whatcaneyedo · #6 12-08-2012, 11:42 PM

It looks like its knocking on deaths door. Bleached, inverted mouth, and unwilling to attach are all bad signs. Reviving it will be difficult but not impossible. Mine was bleached white like that when I purchased it several years ago and it managed to pull through. It should accept pieces of silverside, krill or raw clam meat if its tentacles are still 'sticky'. I hope your tank is at least a few months old... judging by how white your rocks are it looks like you just set it up which is also to your disadvantage. Anemones can be pretty delicate and an immature tank isn't very suitable for them. Do you at least have some intense lighting?

tobysmurf · #7 12-09-2012, 12:14 AM

Crap, so lesson learned - don't trust the LFS to sell me something healthy...I'll try and get some food for him tomorrow. Any chance I could spot feed him some mysis? That's the only meat based food I have right now. Anyone happen to know a place in Calgary where I can buy silversides?

reefwars · #8 12-09-2012, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by tobysmurf

Crap, so lesson learned - don't trust the LFS to sell me something healthy...I'll try and get some food for him tomorrow. Any chance I could spot feed him some mysis? That's the only meat based food I have right now. Anyone happen to know a place in Calgary where I can buy silversides?

mysis is just fine ,alots gonna depend on how your system fluctuates and the intensity of your lights

tobysmurf · #9 12-09-2012, 12:25 AM

Update: His mouth is back inside where it belongs, but he's still not attaching and of course he's almost completely white.

Also to answer the questions this tank is pretty new, although the camera exposure really made the rocks (and the animal) look whiter than they are. My vodka dosing might be making stuff look white too, I am not certain. My lighting sucks, it's just compact high outputs right now but I have 300 watts of LEDs showing up in the next 2-3 days. We have pretty extreme flow inside the tank (2 x 1200gph power heads and one 2x 1600s). My water tests actually seem quite stable, nothing bad (virtually zero phosphates, ammonia, nitrates, or nitrites). My Calcium is a bit high right now (470) but other than that I think I'm doing pretty well. I will try and spot feed him.

daniella3d · #10 12-09-2012, 12:19 PM

wow, this is really bleached. It will need to eat or it will surely die. It does not have a trace of symbiotic algae anylonger.

Does it accept food? this will make the difference between live and death for this creature.

It might not accept food right away. It it is not sebae because of its red foot. Probably a long tentacles. Sand anemone is not a name it's a general term for the types of anemones which live in the sand, like the long tentacles and the sebae.

My sebae was pretty bleached when I got her but now she's huge and dark brown as she should be. I was lucky with this one that she eats like a pig. Previous one was also bleached, did not eat and died in 2 to 3 weeks.