Hey I am a newcomer here. I've been in the hobby for a year and a half now and I've encountered many problems. But the most frustrating of all is that my clownfish kill my anemone! (indirectly of course!) Firstly, here is everything about my tank.
100 gallon w sump
clarkii clown x2
blue green chromis x3
indian anthias x5
sandsifter goby x1
hermit crabs xmany
Tank Stats:
Nitrate 10 ppm
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
pH 8.0-8.3
Ca 400
KH 10
So I had a green carpet as well as a tentacle anemone. My first green carpet was fine for around six months and then I introduced my mated clarkii pair. The larger clarkii did not stop nuzzling the anemone even for a single minute in the entire day! She would not let the anemone feed when I fed it as she would continuously disturb it. It started showing signs of stress and finally died. At that time I thought its death had something to do with my tank. So I improved lighting and water parameters. After around 6 months, I got a long tentacle anemone. It was large and healthy. It even fed at my LFS. But as soon my Clarkii started hosting it, it started deteriorating. When it was in my quarantine, it was healthy and feeding properly. It was also fully inflated. But the larger clarkii does not leave the anemone alone even for a moment! It would steal entire pieces of shrimp from the anemones closing mouth and the anemone would go hungry. This happened literally every time I fed it. Now I know size matters, but my anemone was atleast four times larger than my clarkii! Anyone else ecountered this? This is something I couldn't do anything about. As a result I lost two beautiful anemones and around 6500 Rupees (100$).
100 gallon w sump
clarkii clown x2
blue green chromis x3
indian anthias x5
sandsifter goby x1
hermit crabs xmany
Tank Stats:
Nitrate 10 ppm
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
pH 8.0-8.3
Ca 400
KH 10
So I had a green carpet as well as a tentacle anemone. My first green carpet was fine for around six months and then I introduced my mated clarkii pair. The larger clarkii did not stop nuzzling the anemone even for a single minute in the entire day! She would not let the anemone feed when I fed it as she would continuously disturb it. It started showing signs of stress and finally died. At that time I thought its death had something to do with my tank. So I improved lighting and water parameters. After around 6 months, I got a long tentacle anemone. It was large and healthy. It even fed at my LFS. But as soon my Clarkii started hosting it, it started deteriorating. When it was in my quarantine, it was healthy and feeding properly. It was also fully inflated. But the larger clarkii does not leave the anemone alone even for a moment! It would steal entire pieces of shrimp from the anemones closing mouth and the anemone would go hungry. This happened literally every time I fed it. Now I know size matters, but my anemone was atleast four times larger than my clarkii! Anyone else ecountered this? This is something I couldn't do anything about. As a result I lost two beautiful anemones and around 6500 Rupees (100$).
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