Anemone help

Bugzin · Oct 28, 2023

Hello everyone, I need some help with an anemone. So I recently purchased an anemone that looked exactly like the nice colorful picture down below a couple weeks ago and now it has turned dark and lost its coloration and bubbles. I directly feed him about twice a week and I have the slightest idea as to what could be happening. I currently have 7 corals in the tank and then the anemone everything else is prospering but the anem just looks wild. He moves around slightly sometimes he shrinks most times he just has long slinky tentacles that have lost most of the color. Any ideas as to what is happening? Is it dying? Is this normal?

Bugzin · Oct 28, 2023

That first picture wasn't the same anemone in the tank as the one I purchased was smaller, but that is what he looked like when I first purchased him. Just to clarify.

ryanjohn1 · Oct 28, 2023

Bugzin said:
Hello everyone, I need some help with an anemone. So I recently purchased an anemone that looked exactly like the nice colorful picture down below a couple weeks ago and now it has turned dark and lost its coloration and bubbles. I directly feed him about twice a week and I have the slightest idea as to what could be happening. I currently have 7 corals in the tank and then the anemone everything else is prospering but the anem just looks wild. He moves around slightly sometimes he shrinks most times he just has long slinky tentacles that have lost most of the color. Any ideas as to what is happening? Is it dying? Is this normal?

Pic under white light only please. What is it’s mouth doing?

James M · Oct 28, 2023

Is there any specific reason you’re feeding it twice a week ?

Bugzin · Oct 28, 2023

ryanjohn1 said:
Pic under white light only please. What is it’s mouth doing?

Bugzin · Oct 28, 2023

James M said:
Is there any specific reason you’re feeding it twice a week ?

I've read like mixed results here and there, I wasn't particularly sure what good amount so I started out doing like Monday and Saturday or Sunday. So no specific reason other than trying to see what works best and trying to be consistent.

Pillahump · Oct 28, 2023

Looks perfectly fine to me, I wouldn't target feed it and if you do just give it a little bit of mysis or brine from the frozen cube nothing crazy. Bubble tip anemone can either be bubbly or have longer tentacles just depends.