Gypsy Doreensis

[ubiq]

My long tentacle anemone is still drifting around the bottom of tank after a month. Foot looks healthy, mouth is tight, color good. Accepts food and has grown a bit, but will not settle in sand or on rock. I've excavated cozy holes at the base of rocks, but it withdraws its foot after an hour and continues to drift. Any thoughts on how to get it to settle down appreciated.

 

[old salt reefer]

Have you tried the plastic tube in the sand. Get plastic tube about twice as big around an almost as tall as anemones column, place in sand/gravel. Remove all sand/gravel from inside tube(right down to the bottom glass of tank) and place anemone into it. Turn down flow, give anemone time to attach(can happen in minutes or days). Remove tube, push sand around column.
When buying a anemone(especially a LTA) my top to 2 rules are mouth closed and it's attached. Anemones with a damaged foot usually won't attach. With a LTA that can be a small pinprick and it won't attach.
Look how I keep my LTA in a bare bottom tank: Plastic food container from the deli with gravel in it.

 

[BlennyTime]

How high is your flow? It’s possible he just hasn’t found a happy spot yet.

 

[ubiq]

I've varied the flow in the effort to accommodate the nem. I'm trying the tube method today. Will post result. Thanks.

 

[chizerbunoi]

Also make sure you have a deep sand bed in the area where the LTA goes. It won’t be happy otherwise and will continue to either move or reattach until it finds the ideal spot.

 

[ubiq]

Sand bed is 4". After 3 days in the tube, still not attaching, but not able to escape from tube. I 'm gonna leave it there and bring the sand up to the top of the tube, see what happens.

 

[old salt reefer]

3 days, most likely has damaged foot.

 

[chizerbunoi]

Tube as in a piece of abs/pvc? If it’s a U shape try putting it on the side with the head of the nem propped out. Should give it a chance to attach to the side.

if a standing tube, try without sand in it. Does it have an end cap?

When you pull the foot out and see something protruding out of the foot besides sand then it has an injury. It should be nice and flat/clean.