Does this look healthy?

[speedstar]

Been looking for a home for my clowns, does this look healthy. I passed for now as it looked off abit, but really liked the blue. This was the day after it arrived at LFS.

 

[ndrwater]

With nems, the key is to look at the foot for no signs of damage, and the mouth. Gaping indicates stress, disease, or worse.

 

[KrisReef]

Clowns like/prefer certain species of nem. Is that one on the list of nems your clowns want to host in? ( I don't recognize it myself, it could be fine?)

 

[speedstar]

Clowns like/prefer certain species of nem. Is that one on the list of nems your clowns want to host in? ( I don't recognize it myself, it could be fine?)

I had wondered that, but at the LFS they use this in there show tank and the clowns host with it. So not sure but have scene it work atleast once

 

[speedstar]

With nems, the key is to look at the foot for no signs of damage, and the mouth. Gaping indicates stress, disease, or worse.

Thanks

 

[James M]

It’s also hard to tell because of the blue lights

 

[Ron Reefman]

IMHO it's not that clowns prefer a particular species of anemone, but more that they prefer anemones that have longer tentacles.

I had a mated pair of clowns in a tank with a long tentacle nem from the South Pacific (same as the clowns). The nem moved and cut itself on a rock edge and died. So I added a Condy I collected while snorkeling in the Keys (back when Condys were not illegal to collect). Now no clownfish has ever seen a Condy in the wild. They come from and are exclusive to different oceans. My clowns did some very slow and careful investigations of the Condy for a couple of days. Then started doing 'swim throughs' to test it. That lasted for a few days. Then the started stopping in it for a bit before moving out. Finally, after about 10 days, the clowns started using the Condy like they were born to be together.

Speedstar, your nem looks OK to me, although it is hard to say because of the blue lighting. Is it all white? Do you know what kind of anemone it's supposed to be? Nems can be really strange and look very unhappy (unhealthy) at times and an hour or a day later look perfectly normal. My advise is to give it time to settle into the new home.