how can i stick him????????

[marlincoral]

i have just purchased a bubble tip anenome and he doesnt want to stick. is there anything i can do to encourage him to stay put. I dont want to stress him by touching him. and he doesnt look happy to be floating all over the tank.

[Matt]

Reduce flow and turn off the lights.

[marlincoral]

done. lets see if it works, still nothing but i have patience

[Quagmire]

Give it a day or 2 to settle in.Then if it hasn't attached,you may need to play with your flow to make it happy.Keep in mind some BTA's like to move around seemingly for no reason.It may attach for awhile,then decide to move on.

[Black Phantom]

Mine took a day or two to find a good spot and then about six months later he chose the other side of the tank. Took out a bunch of corals on the way. Oh well

[Nicole8ca]

Any thoughts on how to move an anenome? I just got one as well and the little bugger is at the back of the tank where I can't see him. I'm not terribly interested in getting stung. There are a couple of spots at the front with low flow which I think would be ideal, I'm just not sure how to get it there. I was thinking about pointing a power head where it's at right now but I'm not sure if that would provoke it to move, or kill it from stress...

[Nicole8ca]

oh yeah, and I came across this article this morning about anenomes. Fast easy read and there might be something you find interesting in there.

http://www.carlosreef.com/AnemoneFAQ.pdf

Am I aloud to post links like this? Let me know if it's a problem.

Cheers,
Nicole

[marlincoral]

so now my BTA is all shrunken down, i am affraid of him dying. he seems to be responding when we touch him. How will we know if he is going to die? When should we get him out of there? He was oozing some slime, is this harmful to anything in my tank?

[Myka]

What color was the slime? How much of it? How did you acclimate it?

[marlincoral]

well it was brown slim, there wasnt alot just some tiny strings. We were told not to acllimate him!!!!!!