octoberfest
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So about a month ago I picked up a beautiful blue haddoni carpet anemone. It came from an established tank that it had been in for well over one year. It was also only a couple hours away from me so there were no major stresses due to shipping.
The problem in my tank is that it will foot, stay there for a few days, then release. In the previous tank it walked but never released. What I mean by that is that it moved about 1/3 the length of the tank but it inched it's way to that location, it didn't release like it does in mine.
The tank it came from was a 180 gallon tank with four 400 watt metal halides. The tank also had high nitrates, used 2 MP40's for flow and had a deep sand bed.
The tank I'm keeping it in is a 93 gallon cube with 2 AI SOL Blue's over it set at 35/45/55 (currently acclimating the lights up) and I'm using one MP40.
Other than that the major differences are that I have a clownfish in this tank that is all up in the anemone, the 180 that it came out of had a pair of clowns but they preferred the LTA that was in there and would only occasionally go to the haddoni.
A few things I've tried so far is lowering the flow, bringing the lights up 10% on each setting, and shutting the powerhead off at night. This seems to have worked however I don't think the rest of the tank is going to benefit from this lack of flow.
Other than not staying footed the anemone is in great health. It's very sticky (which is a pain if I need to move it when it walks), mouth is closed up tight, eats if you give it food, etc.
Here are a few pictures of the tank so show the anemone and the corals (notice how low the flow is by movement). By the way that's not me panting that's my German Shepherd puppy that was interested in what I was doing
[video=youtube_share;g-zsM-TaogQ]http://youtu.be/g-zsM-TaogQ[/video]
The problem in my tank is that it will foot, stay there for a few days, then release. In the previous tank it walked but never released. What I mean by that is that it moved about 1/3 the length of the tank but it inched it's way to that location, it didn't release like it does in mine.
The tank it came from was a 180 gallon tank with four 400 watt metal halides. The tank also had high nitrates, used 2 MP40's for flow and had a deep sand bed.
The tank I'm keeping it in is a 93 gallon cube with 2 AI SOL Blue's over it set at 35/45/55 (currently acclimating the lights up) and I'm using one MP40.
Other than that the major differences are that I have a clownfish in this tank that is all up in the anemone, the 180 that it came out of had a pair of clowns but they preferred the LTA that was in there and would only occasionally go to the haddoni.
A few things I've tried so far is lowering the flow, bringing the lights up 10% on each setting, and shutting the powerhead off at night. This seems to have worked however I don't think the rest of the tank is going to benefit from this lack of flow.
Other than not staying footed the anemone is in great health. It's very sticky (which is a pain if I need to move it when it walks), mouth is closed up tight, eats if you give it food, etc.
Here are a few pictures of the tank so show the anemone and the corals (notice how low the flow is by movement). By the way that's not me panting that's my German Shepherd puppy that was interested in what I was doing
[video=youtube_share;g-zsM-TaogQ]http://youtu.be/g-zsM-TaogQ[/video]
Then I have 2 on the bottom part on rock and sand. BTW that's a pretty Haddoni
