anemone

matt880305 · 02/20/2008, 10:49 AM

i bought a anemone a few months back and the last week it has been looking kinda deflated. Any thoughts why this may be of?

papagimp · 02/20/2008, 10:53 AM

lighting, temperature, feeding, flow, speceis of anemone not in correct type of enviroment, lot's of reasons.

Can ya give us a little more information please? Howlong has the tank been up for, what equipment is being ran, how often are you feeding the anemone and what are you feeding it? What type of anemone is it?

Accroding to your "current tanks" list, you don't have a single tankl isted old enough for an anemone. may get by in the 7 month old tank, but depends on how the tanks been doing and how well it's matured in that time.

matt880305 · 02/20/2008, 10:57 AM

well it is in the 7 month tank and i have 10000k compact on it. i feed it brine shrimp. for flow my tank cycles 10 times an hour and it is a rose anemone

papagimp · 02/20/2008, 11:03 AM

you have "A" 10,000k PC on it? Not enough lighting for one thing. 10x turnover, Not enough either, try to double that as a mimnimum. Rose bubbles are typically one of the easier and adaptive anemone's to keep, good call on getting a bubble tip. Forget the brine shrimp, that's a joke of a meal for an aneomen, get some silversides (cut em smaller if he's still a tiny aneomen), some mysis, krill, squid, larger meatier junks. I feed my RBTA full size silversides and any dead fish I end up with. As well as a variety of other meatier junks of foodstuffs. Brine's just not enough. Anemone's only get about 10% of their nutrition from actually eating, the rest is from lighting. But that 10% is important nonetheless. Can't survive on only 90% of what it needs. And that light won't give it anywhere close to that 90%. Either get several PC's and place the aneomen high up in the tank, or get some T5's or MH's over him.

Is he showing any signs of bleaching? loosing color? Really pale in color?

matt880305 · 02/20/2008, 11:07 AM

farther in the back he is and yes it is a small one

02/20/2008, 10:49 AM	#1
matt880305 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: montgomery, il Posts: 844	anemone i bought a anemone a few months back and the last week it has been looking kinda deflated. Any thoughts why this may be of?

02/20/2008, 10:53 AM	#2
papagimp COMAS Rocks! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 8,185 Blog Entries: 2	lighting, temperature, feeding, flow, speceis of anemone not in correct type of enviroment, lot's of reasons. Can ya give us a little more information please? Howlong has the tank been up for, what equipment is being ran, how often are you feeding the anemone and what are you feeding it? What type of anemone is it? Accroding to your "current tanks" list, you don't have a single tankl isted old enough for an anemone. may get by in the 7 month old tank, but depends on how the tanks been doing and how well it's matured in that time. __________________ 58g Softie & 75g Stoney Member, Central Oklahoma Marine Aquarium Society Current Tank Info: 58g Mixed Reef Project - Started June 2011

02/20/2008, 11:03 AM	#4
papagimp COMAS Rocks! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 8,185 Blog Entries: 2	you have "A" 10,000k PC on it? Not enough lighting for one thing. 10x turnover, Not enough either, try to double that as a mimnimum. Rose bubbles are typically one of the easier and adaptive anemone's to keep, good call on getting a bubble tip. Forget the brine shrimp, that's a joke of a meal for an aneomen, get some silversides (cut em smaller if he's still a tiny aneomen), some mysis, krill, squid, larger meatier junks. I feed my RBTA full size silversides and any dead fish I end up with. As well as a variety of other meatier junks of foodstuffs. Brine's just not enough. Anemone's only get about 10% of their nutrition from actually eating, the rest is from lighting. But that 10% is important nonetheless. Can't survive on only 90% of what it needs. And that light won't give it anywhere close to that 90%. Either get several PC's and place the aneomen high up in the tank, or get some T5's or MH's over him. Is he showing any signs of bleaching? loosing color? Really pale in color? __________________ 58g Softie & 75g Stoney Member, Central Oklahoma Marine Aquarium Society Current Tank Info: 58g Mixed Reef Project - Started June 2011

02/20/2008, 10:57 AM	#3
matt880305 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: montgomery, il Posts: 844	well it is in the 7 month tank and i have 10000k compact on it. i feed it brine shrimp. for flow my tank cycles 10 times an hour and it is a rose anemone

02/20/2008, 11:07 AM	#5
matt880305 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: montgomery, il Posts: 844	farther in the back he is and yes it is a small one