Anemone help asap!
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Blue Lip
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Dose iodine! I seem to always have someone contradict me on this. Live aquaria has 13 types of anemones listed. When it list supplements all of them say to add iodine! It really helps them to color up although a ritteri is more of a brown / tan anemone.
joshkirkland83
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That is a ritteri. Or h. Magnifica. Its all i keep. Ive had them for years. They are for a more experienced reefer, but you dont get that way without experience. First to get the color back you can feed it a tentacle off a colored ritteri hidden in food. It will jumpstart the zooxathallene. Second, they love super high flow and lots of light. It will most likley try to get as high as possible in your tank. Third, it can be fed raw shrimp, oysters, squid. No bigger than 3/4 the size of its mouth when open. Chopped if need be. Just drop in his tentacles and watch the magic. Fourth, if fed often it can get up to 14" in captivity.
Thank you so much. I love this website. You guys where so helpful and I appreciate it. So what color would it turn to if its a sea bae? You can't see it in the picture but the tentacles are bulbed it's so wierd. And how big of a shrimp do I fee it. Just buy raw shrimp from the grocery store?
Trex
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IMO/E, that is an E. quadricolor, (( BTA )) and a slightly bleached one at that, but otherwise healthy.
If you use a quality salt mix and do regular water changes there is no need to dose iodine. Could end up doing more harm than good by dosing it -- since the test kits for it highly inaccurate.
Been keeping hosting anemones for 20+ years now, never dosed any type of iodine for them, the longest one was in my care for 12+ years.
If you use a quality salt mix and do regular water changes there is no need to dose iodine. Could end up doing more harm than good by dosing it -- since the test kits for it highly inaccurate.
Been keeping hosting anemones for 20+ years now, never dosed any type of iodine for them, the longest one was in my care for 12+ years.
Trex
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Feed it smaller pieces. Anything bigger than a thumb nail is too big. Personally, I would stick with mysis shrimp for your anemone. E. quadricolors natural diet will be very small items.
Trex
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Given that it really isn't all that bleached, about a month to see an improvement.
Do you know what lights it was under? Are you acclimating it to your lights?
From years ago --- took about 2 months, give or take a week.
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Do you know what lights it was under? Are you acclimating it to your lights?
From years ago --- took about 2 months, give or take a week.
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jayjigga
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Tell that to my mag that's pushing 16" or larger, haha...I imagine he'll get to 24" in the next few years. Maybe you meant 14'? How awesome would a 14ft nem be?!
To the OP, deff think BTA. Good luck!!
mochaclownlover
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Yes, it could come back as a green or who knows what other crazy color. Expect the unexpected.
gcrance
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Its not a ritteri. I have had a couple of them they look close when they are small but once the get a lil bigger you can see. Thats just big enough to tell. Its a sebae and most of the yime they are whiteish with blue or purple tips. I see bleached nems come through my dealer regularly and a bleached bta if taken care of will recover sometimes b7t it 50/50. But sebaes are hard to kill. I havent fed mine in almost a month and i just walks around to where the food falls on it own
It looks a lot like my Sebae whose mostly cream colored with purple tips, which sometimes are a little bulby. My clownfish host and feed it.
I've had no luck with bubble tips but my Sebae is pretty happy. I attached one from a day it was super ticked at an additive to show how much they change and another when it's happier. I'll try to remember to take one once I get home with white light
I've had no luck with bubble tips but my Sebae is pretty happy. I attached one from a day it was super ticked at an additive to show how much they change and another when it's happier. I'll try to remember to take one once I get home with white light
Honestly I got lucky. I adopted a pair of clowns and the anemone of someone moving cross country. But the bubble tip I had before was being hosted by my other clown who I originally had in the tank. Although think it hosted it to death.
grim1reaper72
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To me it looks like a Sebae.
mochaclownlover
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Can you try to get another picture of it?
