I rescued some anemones

Squeaky McMurdo · Dec 11, 2019

So first of all, over Thanksgiving break I picked up an anemone that was supposed to be a pink bubble tip, but it is not. I got it home and acclimated before it opened up and realized this. It’s a long tentacle anemone. I had one a while back, but it never settled in and my clowns harassed it to the point it crawled under my rocks and died. This one found a spot in the back of my tank it liked. I let it stay there until today, but it was difficult to see or feed it without risking falling in my tank, so I moved it to a more accessible spot similar to the one it picked. This one doesn’t flourence at all. It has pink tentacles and is in a shaded area so that might be the difference between this one and the one I had before that was white in daylights, but glowed green under blues. I took some mysis just now and has it tentacles extended. I just wanted to check and see if not glowing is a sign of its zooxanthellae being gone and if so can it recover? It doesn’t seem sick other than that.

Next anemone, a local friend is leaving for a few weeks so she gave me a green bubble tip a few days ago. I have successfully kept a pink bubble tip before, but when I transferred this one to my tank it felt like I was holding a very runny snot glob. The one I had felt more solid. It seems happy and settled now but feeling like it was going to fall apart weirded me out. It also ate some mysis.

chizerbunoi · Dec 12, 2019

Both are BTA and look fine to me. I wouldn’t feed them more than once a week. Give them more time. Colours will change and appear different depending on what lights you have.

Try to test your parameters and learn to maintain your water quality. Especially salinity, nitrates and phosphates and they will be very happy. It will also take care of all that algae growing all over your rocks too.

Squeaky McMurdo · Dec 12, 2019

Hair algae outbreak started when I upgraded my lights the other month and is loosing momentum. Tank is a over a year old, but rocks are from the 60 gallon I had running for years.

I didn’t get a look at the one I said is an LTA before I got it home. The lady had it in a bag ready to go when I got there. It has a red foot, a speckled white oral disk, and wants to bury its foot in the sand so I’m fairly sure it’s an LTA.