Caring for anemone

[ZeRoC00l]

I read up on some anemone sites / books, and think i followed as needed for their requirements:

Bright light

cool water temp

feedings

But Mine just suddenly when bersek!

current condition of tank:

NO2: 0ppm

NO3: 20ppm [i know kinda high]

Temp: 26~27

Light: 150W 11K MH

Just did a water change yesterday.

Was doing fine for the last 2 weeks or so. fed it defrost prawns every 3 days. Got good lightings.

then when i come home this evening....

Like cannot make it liao....

Pls help.

thanks

[BarraCudaTM]

sometimes they will inflat and deflat and looks like they are dying but they will bounce back to live the next day .. dont worry

[wedgee]

Hmmm yr NO3 seems to be similar to mine, but the dozen or so small anemones in my tank have been doing well for a few weeks...some even expanded and moved to their ideal 'homes'. I'm thinking could it be doing some spring-cleaning? I've read somewhere that anemones constantly bloat and flatten to expel their wastes, and one of mine once looked like it's life had been sucked outta it! But after one night (i just let it be), it re-inflated and 'came back to life'!!!

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Yup...dun throw it away as wat BC & W sd....

A dying anemone will show signs like Torn/ injured flesh/ Dropping/ rotting tentacles...

Relax

[ZeRoC00l]

Well... too late

It's acutally lucky tt I seperate my anemone from my main tank last nite. This morning I found it dead really dead.

It showed no signs of Torn/ injured flesh/ Dropping/ rotting tentacles...

The smaller tank it was in had turned cloudy, and really stink!

Guess, I better go read up more b4 getting another

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Where did u put the anemone after u sperated it?

[ZeRoC00l]

In my "hospital tank"

Conditions almost similar to main tank, with filter, cool temp, adequate lightings, etc

Used it to condition fish b4 adding to main tank. Using half of main tank water and new salt water, just in case NO3 was too high for it..

Now it's all over. hai

[hongqixian]

current condition of tank:

NO2: 0ppm

NO3: 20ppm [i know kinda high]

Temp: 26~27

Was doing fine for the last 2 weeks or so. fed it defrost prawns every 3 days. Got good lightings.

How big is the tank and what is the current it gets?

Is it shaded from light somehow?

Anemones expend a lot of energy to digest food and they don't necessarily get back as much. I don't think feeding every three days is advisable. Usually people feed with intervals of a few weeks or a month. They depend more on their algae and they do catch food but don't eat that often. You find that sometimes they even spit the food out.

Is there anything that might possibly harass the anemone such as clowns or other corals, boxfish?

And the top suspect would be the water change. How did you mix the salt, for how long and where? Newly mixed salt has a lot of CO2(read somewhere) and is caustic (buffers have not dissolved.) I scorched a torch in the past. The salt should be mixed at least six hours.

Did you pre-cycle the quarantine?

Did you injure the anemone when separating it?

How long have you had the tank and anemone?

Has it been happy in a spot?

Was it near an intake that the foot might be a little bit injured and is not easily noticeable?

Just extras: I don't think anemones deflate that much when they are happy. Where do their clownfish go to in the meantime when they are in the wild? Shopping?

Wedgee, what kind of anemones do you have? could it be Anemonia majano? (my spelling may be wrong). Commonly sold as colonial anemones, they are a pest.

[B|uEc@rpEt]

Wow HQ!

V-detailed

[coelacanth]

dun tink it's Aiptasia anemone, they are extremely hardy, unless u got livestocks eating them. e.g wrasse, parrots or peppermint shrimps.

[hongqixian]

Wow HQ!

V-detailed

Haha,

That happened to me once and it was horrible.

And one more thing, zero,

what kind of anemone izzit?

[ZeRoC00l]

The anemone I got should be the purple tip anemone. [a pict was posted a while back]

My tank is 2.5ft w/ 2ft slump

Lighting : 150W 11K MH

Tank inhabitants: 1 clown, 1 damsel n 1 hermit crab

Tank is over a mth, water conditions were already stated.

Quarintine tank is half old water + half new sea water. Bubbled for 1/2 day b4 placing anemone inside.

In main tank, it stayed wherever i place it. No visible injuries from bottom foot or any where ard it though.

[hongqixian]

I remember now! The purple tip H. malu right?

May I know where you got it from? perhaps the problem lies with the LFS.

[ZeRoC00l]

Got mine from Hong Leong.

dun think his life stock is bad. It was ok in his tank.

Now tt it's gone, I go back to the books and read up more on them, b4 getting another.

[hongqixian]

Well, I dunno, aren't his anemones usually stuck to the bottom of a blue tub?

[B|uEc@rpEt]

I think Pat's anemones quite okie wanz