Sebae anemone questions

[TLeTourneau]

We got a Sebae anemone about two weeks ago and it doesn't seem like it wants to attach anywhere. When we first put it in after drip acclimation it dug into the sand bed but only stayed a few hours then started moving around. After several hours it dug into the same spot again for about eight hours then went wandering again. We thought we'd put it in a different part of the tank and see how it went, it didn't grab on there either. I called Bulk Reef Supply and one of their guys that keeps Sebae's recommended clearing the a sand from the bottom of shutting down the power heads for a few hours and placing the anemone there for it to attach. We've done that and the anemone hasn't moved nor attached even after turning the power heads back on. Do we just need to give it more time? I don't want to bother it unnecessarily but I want to ensure that it is well taken care of. We have a Red Sea Reefer 350 and the substrate is Agri-alive Special Grade. Our water parameters are stable and within spec for anemones, the tank is about a year old. Any advice will be appreciated!

 

[Gonebad395]

You dug a hole just give it some more time but keep a close eye on it if you have corals make sure it doesn’t float around messing them up and watch power heads.

 

[TLeTourneau]

Should I leave the power heads off? I'm concerned about the impact that may have on the fish and corals. We gave mostly softies and such.

 

[Taylor t]

Right in the center up against the rocks looks like the ideal place I would try for it, maybe 8-10” to the right. Maybe try to put it up against the rocks in the center, and maybe try to pin it in that area with another little rock in front of it? It might do better having rock all around the disk and try digging down then? Just a guess that I would try.
When that guy settles in it’s going to be a nice one!

 

[davocean]

I agree, that's what I was thinking too, and would give distance from those palys or zoas or whatever I see close to it, that alone may bother it.

Also hopefully your sand bed is at least 3-4" deep, maybe add or build up some if not.

It's small and hard to say for sure but it may be a malu(one of two sebaes) and if so it will be less light needy, and your lights may be stronger than what it was under previously, so you could turn lights down, or screen over it to diffuse light and see how it reacts then.

It may have set and stayed if lights were not stronger than what it was used to.

You should not have to turn pumps off more than an hour max, and really 15-30 minutes should be plenty.

 

[TLeTourneau]

Well we just move it to a quarantine tank. It wouldn't settle in so, thinking our sand bed might not be deep enough we added 40lbs of sand to get the recommended depth. When we moved it to the deeper sand bed we noticed what appears to be a wound on it, we are wondering if the bristle worms did it but we're not sure. Once we noticed it we moved it to a quarantine tank to be safe. I've attached pictures, I'm not sure how to treat it. We have some E.M. erythromycin that is supposed to help with open wounds but I'm not sure if that's appropriate for an anenome. I've attached pictures.