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Hello R2R,
Tl/Dr: I've discovered what appears to be a miniscule green bubble tip anemone that has hitchhiked on my new hammer coral. Just wondering if there is any extra care I need to provide compared to a regular sized bubble tip nem.
I've been lurking on this community for a while and decided to make an account to ask for some advice. So my tank has been cycled since January this year and for the past month I have been keeping a weekly journal of my parameters, monitoring them to see if they were stable enough for some corals (just looking for softies and easy lps).
My parameters have been stable so I decided to pick up a green hammer two days ago. I temp acclimated, dipped, and placed my hammer. While observing my hammer I noticed what appeared to be a new head forming on the hammer, it was small (around 1/8th inch in diameter). I'm still very new at this but I thought this new growth didn't look right. It was the same color as the hammer but it would inflate and deflate when disturbed by amphipods.
Well this morning I found it detached on the sand bed approximately 4 or so inches away from the hammer! I was thinking the hammer was stressed and dropped it, but upon closer inspection it appears to be a mini mini green bubble tip! I'm super excited to see this lil' freebie tag along but I feel my tank is a too young to be able to provide the appropriate care for it. Is there anything additional I need to do to care for it? Or is it the same as keeping a normal size bubble tip? Just keep my parameters stable, let it do it's thing, and hope it doesn't get sucked into the overflow? [emoji28]
Right now I have no fish, just a skunk cleaner shrimp, hermit's, snails, and a million pinky nail sized amphipods. I'm supplementing the hermit's diets so I don't think they're at risk of eating it. Tank is a 45 gallon with two Ai primes. 3.5 gallon water change every Wednesday and Sunday for 5 gallons a week
I've attached some pictures, you can see the anemone attached to the hammer's base on the lower left in the first pic and the nem in the sand in the second pic.
Let me know if I need to provide more info!
Thanks in advance!
Tl/Dr: I've discovered what appears to be a miniscule green bubble tip anemone that has hitchhiked on my new hammer coral. Just wondering if there is any extra care I need to provide compared to a regular sized bubble tip nem.
I've been lurking on this community for a while and decided to make an account to ask for some advice. So my tank has been cycled since January this year and for the past month I have been keeping a weekly journal of my parameters, monitoring them to see if they were stable enough for some corals (just looking for softies and easy lps).
My parameters have been stable so I decided to pick up a green hammer two days ago. I temp acclimated, dipped, and placed my hammer. While observing my hammer I noticed what appeared to be a new head forming on the hammer, it was small (around 1/8th inch in diameter). I'm still very new at this but I thought this new growth didn't look right. It was the same color as the hammer but it would inflate and deflate when disturbed by amphipods.
Well this morning I found it detached on the sand bed approximately 4 or so inches away from the hammer! I was thinking the hammer was stressed and dropped it, but upon closer inspection it appears to be a mini mini green bubble tip! I'm super excited to see this lil' freebie tag along but I feel my tank is a too young to be able to provide the appropriate care for it. Is there anything additional I need to do to care for it? Or is it the same as keeping a normal size bubble tip? Just keep my parameters stable, let it do it's thing, and hope it doesn't get sucked into the overflow? [emoji28]
Right now I have no fish, just a skunk cleaner shrimp, hermit's, snails, and a million pinky nail sized amphipods. I'm supplementing the hermit's diets so I don't think they're at risk of eating it. Tank is a 45 gallon with two Ai primes. 3.5 gallon water change every Wednesday and Sunday for 5 gallons a week
I've attached some pictures, you can see the anemone attached to the hammer's base on the lower left in the first pic and the nem in the sand in the second pic.
Let me know if I need to provide more info!
Thanks in advance!
