Green Bubble Tip Anemone Help

[foskett96]

Hi everyone so I purchased a rather large Green Bubble Tip Anemone about 5 days ago. On the first day it moved around to find a spot. On the second day it seems to have found its spot and has stayed there the past four days. On the second day it opened up fully and beautifully, however the past three days it doesn't seem to want to fully open up and just partially opens up. I am beginning to get worried as I love it and its a beautiful anemone. My female occelaris clownfish began to host it on the second night.

My water parameters are as follows:
pH: 8.0
ammonia: 0ppm
nitrite: 0ppm
nitrate: 10ppm
kH: 7 degrees
Calcium:460ppm
Phosphate: 0.25
Temperate: 25.5 - 26.0 degrees Celsius

The tank is a 30 gallon Aquael Reef max that has been set up for almost about 2 years. It isnt a very deep tank so therefore i have 3 T5 HO over the top of it, each 25 watts meaning for a total of 75 watts, 1 globe is actinic and the other 2 are full spectrum.
It has an Aquael Reef Circulator 2600 as the pump in the tank, which provides about 685 gallons of flow per hour.

The anemone readily takes food I fed it on the seconds day, third day and today. Each day it was feed a small piece of raw shrimp.

It has found its spot in the bottom left hand corner of the tank with its foot firmly attached to the rock. Which leads me to believe as lighting isn't the problem or it would of moved higher in the tank to get more light.

Please help me figure out why my anemone isn't fully opening, the only time it seems to want to fully open is after i feed it a small piece of shrimp.
Thank You

 

[Eienna]

It may just be adjusting to getting hosted, I'm thinking. Don't know terribly much about nems, though.

 

[foskett96]

im quite worried about it, it makes me really worried not seeing it fully opening up, it is also down the bottom in the tank attached to the rock, idk if it should be up higher

 

[foskett96]

here are some pics of it i just took, please excuse the algae

 

[Connie]

I wouldn't worry too much at this point. From what I can see in your pictures, it looks like the mouth is nice and tight. As long as the tentacles are sticky and accepting food, I'd say it is acclimating; which may take a little longer because it already has a clown in it. On your parameters, the only thing I would do is try to get your KH up a little. Also, I am questioning if it is a BTA. It looks more like a Condy to me. In either case it is beautiful. Good Luck!

 

[DSP]

I agree with Connie.And it looks like a Condy to me to or maybe even a sebae.Have you tried feeding it?

 

[foskett96]

i don think its a condy as it doesnt have a red foot though, yes i have fed it about 4 times small pieces of prawn and it quickly took them. if it was a sebae, wouldnt it move down to the sand?

 

[Connie]

The base of a condy can be brown to white and anything in between. Condy anemone very rarely host anything so I could be wrong about the ID as I'm no expert on anemones...but that is just what it looks like to me from your pictures. It could be a Sebae as well. If its still acclimating, maybe it just hasn't made it to the sandbed yet.

 

[foskett96]

id rather it not be a condy as i dont particularly like them, it hasnt seem to move in the past 5 days guess thats good as condy's move alot. I dont want to manually move it down to the sand. ill make another thread to id it

 

[Connie]

Good idea. There are a lot of anemone experts on here that can quickly tell you what it is.

 

[foskett96]

ok thanks, im not sure about a heteractis sebae or malu as they seem to have alot more tentacles that cover their mouth

 

[foskett96]

i just just went down to see it. the moonlight is on and something weird was happy, the anemone was opened up really large expect for some reason both of my clowns werent in it. my female clown was just under it and was flicking sand up with her fins. what is she doing?

 

[Connie]

I'd say she's tidying up her house. Did you see the male?

 

[foskett96]

yea he was just above the anemone, he is normally never there she normally doesnt let him any where near her, tonight she doesnt she as aggressive she isnt even giving the anemone a hard time. hmm moonlights do weird things