When to move nem?

Qasim · Mar 14, 2020

Hello,

I have resently cycled my tank and already moved most of my coral and fish( three tangs, 1 chromis, 1 maroon clawnfish) everything is doing fine although diatoms still there. My question is in my older tank I have a rose tip bubble annemone and I was wondering when would be a good time to move him to the new tank. He seems to be not happy in the older tank as it shrunk and discolored light green.

Birdbrains? · Mar 15, 2020

Well, since you still have to older tank set up, you can try abd if it fails, you still have an option to pull it back out - I guess that you have to find out the hard way

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It is okay that they shrink up after moving them around but pull it back out, if you see what looks like a tear in the skin of the anemone. If it tears, it will release stinger-cells and generally generally start rotting and become hazardous to your tank in general

Cell · Mar 16, 2020

There is no such thing as the release of "stinger cells" from a foot tear. Bta's routinely heal from foot tears, both big and small. They tear themselves in half to propagate, after all.

Webslinger · Mar 16, 2020

Stinger Cells?

Qasim · Mar 16, 2020

Thank you all foe your input. So it should be fine If I move it to the new tank. Here is how the new tank looks with the new owners in there.

Sailfin11 · Mar 16, 2020

I've always heard that if a tank is stable enough for SPS, an anemone should do fine. I'd go ahead and try. You're tank looks great by the way!

Qasim · Mar 17, 2020

Thank you very much I did my first alkalinity test and it is really low 5.7 iam trying to increase but slowly since the media iam using meant to increase PH. I have a nano tank where I use the rock from my main display. Might move my nem there first before getting it into the main display i think thats better. I will be adding the rock with the nem to the nano tank so the biological filtration should be fine.

D-Nak · Mar 17, 2020

I wouldn't move it to the main DT just yet. Sounds like you're still fiddling with various things to get parameters t your liking. Anemones in general hate this. Also, you may want to try to figure out why your BTA isn't happy in its current tank.

Qasim · Mar 17, 2020

I think I moved the rock a couple times to catch fish in the tank thats why it might not be happy. But I will try to move it to my nano since my old tank and nano share the same biological filtration which means the rocks.

Qasim · Mar 18, 2020

Moved my nem to thenano tank. My clittle clawnfish jumped right into it hope it wont be disturbed and close up its already out abit and looking much better

hopefully i will have him thrive and multiply there.

Birdbrains? · Mar 23, 2020

Cell said:
There is no such thing as the release of "stinger cells" from a foot tear. Bta's routinely heal from foot tears, both big and small. They tear themselves in half to propagate, after all.

True but there is an aspect of when they die, when they begin to tear and at that stage the stingers can get into the flesh of fishes, even the clowns that have adapted to living with that specific anemone unfortunately.