New carpet

[BroncosZOA]

Lighting should be good, dont peel it dont touch, let it do its thing.


Are you 100 percent sure it is taking the food into its mouth and closing the mouth and swallowing, or are you just placing the food in the mouth directly.

The best thing to do with a new anemone is not feed it and let it get settled.

For anemones i give it the twice over. i go in twice to the store at different times of the day. If the anemone is deflated at any time during those two times dont buy it. Deflating should happen quickly and then they should fill back up and close their mouth.

 

[PhelpsTanks]

Well since I have been home from work.. roughly 30 min its foot has detached from the rock and it has shrunk. It looks horrible! And it sucks that it could be meeting its fate. I don't know why chain stores even get these in.. I just didn't want to see it sit in their tank. The color is a deep purple instead of its like pink/purple color.. the tenticles are not sticky.. yes I touched it, I buried the foot in the sand.. that was before I saw you say not to touch it.. so now I will sit back and wait. One question though, if it does die how long do I have to get it out of the tank before bad things start to happen?

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[PhelpsTanks]

Also when we fed it we dropped the shrimp towards the outer edge furthest away from its mouth. It curled up and it looked like the food went into its mouth..not 100% on that it didn't come back out. I wasn't to smart and turned on a powerhead. One that created to much flow, and food came spilling out from under the folds.

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[PhelpsTanks]

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[PhelpsTanks]

Turn for the worse..

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[NautilusQ]

Check you water aprams again for Alkalinity, PO4, and nitrate. what's your Ph? I hope you drip acclimate the animal.

 

[PhelpsTanks]

Yes I did drip.. not as long as everyone seems to recommend I did 45-1 hr not the 2-3 hrs.. didn't know it should have taken that long

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[PhelpsTanks]

Po4 = 0.25
KH = 10 dKH
NitrAte = 20ppm

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[BroncosZOA]

Doesnt look that bad

turn off all of your powerheads and leave it in the sand and see if it digs in. Give it an hour. If start to dig in you need to adjust your flow. Haddonis lives in the sand and in grassbeds. They dont get direct flow on them

They dont like direct flow either. Do you have any filter or anything besides the power heads

 

[PhelpsTanks]

Just the return flow from the Sump. But its not directed towards anything but the waters surface right now.

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[Giancarlo]

Honestly I would get supplemental lighting, i mean most things probably state the minimal requirements, but i mean why go cheap and take a risk, also how long have you had the bulbs for? if they are old that nem wont be getting anywhere near its required lighting(assuming you got the lights when u started the tank, they would be 8 months old now, and depending on what type of fixture and ballast and so on it is more than likely not giving out its full potential). Again I would agree with the fact that the tank isnt established long enough but that is something we cant do anything about, so if you could get your hands on some lighting from your lfs i would do it asap, that poor guy doesn't look like he will last much longer (if you wait months as you suggested, it will be long dead, i would estimate a few days). But if you really cant get any cash for a new fixture, get new bulbs at least, it might help. In my opinion, if it was a flow problem, i think the nem itself would have moved on its own, so i would not bank on the results of changing your flow. I Hope this helps.

 

[BroncosZOA]

See what happens give it an hour. Leave the sump on and see what the anemones do.

Haddonis need to bury their foot to be comfortable.

 

[PhelpsTanks]

Well been longer than an hour.. foot not buried all the way, still partial. Also the carpet has opened, I noticed around the mouth there is a brown ring.. what if anything does this mean?

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[BroncosZOA]

What happened?

I hope all worked out. If it was starting to bury itself you chances are flow is too much.

 

[PhelpsTanks]

Well I let it do it's thing last night.. woke up this morning and the foot is still on the surface of the sand, and still deflated. I think I am just gonna cut my losses and get it out before the rest of the tank starts to suffer from it. What would be a humane way to I guess dispose of it?

 

[BroncosZOA]

dont toss it till you start to see the mouth gape and it starts to expell.


If you can pick it up and smell it, if is smells like sulfur or noticeably bad toss it.

 

[PhelpsTanks]

ok.. I am at work now, you think it will be safe to wait till I get home? Not sure how quickly these things go down hill.

 

[BroncosZOA]

How did it looks this AM?

If the mouth is gaping open and it smells when you get home grab a net and put it in the net and take it out so it doesnt break apart.

 

[PhelpsTanks]

It looks...... sad. Like sad to the point that I feel so bad about buying it. But it was $35 and sitting in a stupid Petco tank, I figured if it had a chance to live I could probably help it more than the stupid chain store could.

 

[NautilusQ]

Well, lets hope it could still rebound. Price is ok, but it's the living animal that we care about. Anyway, it would not be the first time you'll lose livestock, but at least we learn from our mistakes. Presently, my Haddoni just arrived and drip acclimating it like 1 drop per min. and its on 5 gal bucket. GL to us