Anemone Help

MaconTallMan · 12-18-2005, 06:35 PM

This Anemone hitchhiked on a piece of live rock. I want to keep him alive. I have two regular lights one is the full blue spectrum light. I have been chopping up shrimp very small and hand feeding him. I am feeding him every other day. At times he is very large at the base like he is full of water and other times he is very flat. Any help would be appreciated.

**Fishfirst** · 12-19-2005, 11:39 AM

unfortunately n.o. lights will not be enough for him... it would probably be best to sell him or give him to someone with metal halides.

**TheOldSalt** · 12-21-2005, 10:05 AM

Feed it only at night. It's complicated, but they digest food a lot better in the dark. Your specimen is white, though, so it might not matter since there's not much zooxanthellae algae in it to make it not able to eat by day, but it should still help anyway. That's one of the main tricks to keeping most anemones, by the way.

Also, feed it a varied diet. Shrimp are nice, but not nutritionally complete. Give it fish & fishfood pellets and other stuff as well.

flamingo · 12-21-2005, 04:52 PM

SAme kind almost as my new one.... Very odd and moves around alot.

You really should only feed it once a week instead of every day or two.

Barbie · 12-26-2005, 01:25 AM

How often and when you feed it is going to be the least of it's worries, as they can't survive on supplemental food alone, and without some serious light improvement in a real hurry, that poor thing is going to finish starving to death. The white color means it's already severely xooanthelle deficient. Definitely post on a local board and try to give it to someone with a suitable tank for it, IMO. http://www.reefcentral.com is usually a good place to start looking for people near you.

Barbie

CMonroe · 12-27-2005, 09:48 AM

I don't want to hijack this thread, so I'll post a different one, but I'm also having anomone problems... Not sure if it's lighting, water quality, or predation by a rogue shrimp I have.

C Monroe

12-18-2005, 06:35 PM	#1
MaconTallMan Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Age: 42 Posts: 32	Anemone Help This Anemone hitchhiked on a piece of live rock. I want to keep him alive. I have two regular lights one is the full blue spectrum light. I have been chopping up shrimp very small and hand feeding him. I am feeding him every other day. At times he is very large at the base like he is full of water and other times he is very flat. Any help would be appreciated. Attached Images

12-19-2005, 11:39 AM	#2
Fishfirst Fish Guru Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Northern Wisconsin Age: 24 Posts: 3,527	unfortunately n.o. lights will not be enough for him... it would probably be best to sell him or give him to someone with metal halides. __________________ 210 Gal Reef w/ 55 Gallon Sump/Fuge, 125 Gal Fish Only, 65 Gal Seahorse-29 Gallon Sump, 55 Gal FOWLR, 54 Gal Corner FW Community, 20 Gal Nano FOWLR, 55 Gal Piranha, 29 gallon QT "All the yellow tangs and clownfish in the world can't save you now! hahahah" Peter from Family Guy

12-21-2005, 04:52 PM	#4
flamingo One Word: Croutons. Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wisconsin Age: 17 Posts: 1,899	SAme kind almost as my new one.... Very odd and moves around alot. You really should only feed it once a week instead of every day or two. __________________ If you put "u" instead of typing out the actual, shocking, three letter word... i'm not going to read your ramblings. I'm so behind it's not even funny.

12-26-2005, 01:25 AM	#5
Barbie Fishy Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Spokane, Washington Posts: 21	How often and when you feed it is going to be the least of it's worries, as they can't survive on supplemental food alone, and without some serious light improvement in a real hurry, that poor thing is going to finish starving to death. The white color means it's already severely xooanthelle deficient. Definitely post on a local board and try to give it to someone with a suitable tank for it, IMO. http://www.reefcentral.com is usually a good place to start looking for people near you. Barbie __________________

12-27-2005, 09:48 AM	#6
CMonroe Fishy Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Age: 40 Posts: 26	I wonder if that is what's causing my problem... I don't want to hijack this thread, so I'll post a different one, but I'm also having anomone problems... Not sure if it's lighting, water quality, or predation by a rogue shrimp I have. C Monroe

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12-21-2005, 10:05 AM	#3
TheOldSalt Darth Ichthyos Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,343	Feed it only at night. It's complicated, but they digest food a lot better in the dark. Your specimen is white, though, so it might not matter since there's not much zooxanthellae algae in it to make it not able to eat by day, but it should still help anyway. That's one of the main tricks to keeping most anemones, by the way. Also, feed it a varied diet. Shrimp are nice, but not nutritionally complete. Give it fish & fishfood pellets and other stuff as well.

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