Okay, I made the title a little dramatic but I'm trying to get y'all's attention! Not to mention I won't be able to sleep until I get some answers. Ever since I was a little kid I wanted this setup with the clowns and now I finally have the nem so I'm sorta attached to him.
I bought a new sebae after doing extensive research on different 'nems and I already have a curlique that's been happy for a while now at the top of my rock "overhang" where he finally found a small crevice to creep into. So I went and checked out my LFS's shipment they got in a few days ago of anemones and they had two sebaes and after truly extensive checking and rechecking, I picked the one I figured was the healthiest choice (read: inexperienced newb picks anemone) and brought 'em home. He isn't bleached, beautiful tan color with a white foot and purple tips. Problem is.. I can't get him to settle in. I know it's only been like eight hours but it's freaking me out because the curlique didn't float around the tank like this. It's literally like he's dead.. His tentacles aren't shrived but he made them way short but he also flared out. Like way out, almost looking like a carpet or something. And he just floats around the tank wherever the current takes him. I guess I'm fretting so much because I don't want him to slosh around everywhere and get hurt when I'm not looking. I've tried high and low on the rock structures and I even tried placing him in a crater my clown pair dug out in the sandbed in the calmer portion of the tank and he just floated away. Before everybody attacks me about waiting and blah blah blah I just wanted to know if there's anything I can do to help the little guy out and help him settle in?
Also, is he safe to touch barehanded?
Should I go ahead and feed him and turn the lights back on as well? They've been off most of the day.
Tank specs:
55 gal tank
100-110 lbs live and seeding rock
60 lbs aragonite sand
Host of snails
Courting pair of oscellaris clowns
Pair of domino damsels (Yes, pair. They paired like the clowns.. Weirdest thing)
Curlique anemone
1300 gph powerhead (I know I need two and a wavemaker.. Working on it)
Glass top with two long LED strips.. Probably 25 or so 3W white LED's per strip with seven or eight blue 3W LED modules built in about a half inch above the glass on feet.
Tank's been up for over a year, water parameters all read great. Salinity may have been a little high, I forgot to top off before I added him.. Should I top it off now and lower the salinity?
Sorry for so many questions for all of you that made it this far!! I'm just new to this anemone thing (no coral experience) so I'm a little freaked out and don't have any friends into this stuff. Thanks again for all of your help. Any other tips on keeping nems would be extremely helpful as well.
UPDATE: As I was typing I turned on the lights... And then things really got weird. I tried to set the nem on the deepest part of the sandbed, on a mound of sorts, nestled between some rock and it just climbed out and allowed itself to roll away. He's currently between the glass and live rock with his foot facing the glass. His foot looks amazing and healthy but over the past.. Thirty minutes or so, the strangest thing happened. The anemone's foot seemed to.. Swell? I guess with water I'm assuming. The anemone didn't envelope its tentacles in itself like I've seen but they did get shorter. Then all of a sudden I looked up and the tentacles had spread back out and the foot looked like it had a sunken in spot. In fact, as I was typing this the nem once again is swelling up except this time the left side underneath the tentacles (looks like a table) has a slight swell. And once again.. As I type this it's changing again. The entire anemone seems to be swelling up on the top under the tentacles. This is the most activity I've seen from the anemone since I added him to the tank.. So should I leave him on his side between the glass and rock even though he's not attached?
Still the same with the swelling as I hit submit..
I bought a new sebae after doing extensive research on different 'nems and I already have a curlique that's been happy for a while now at the top of my rock "overhang" where he finally found a small crevice to creep into. So I went and checked out my LFS's shipment they got in a few days ago of anemones and they had two sebaes and after truly extensive checking and rechecking, I picked the one I figured was the healthiest choice (read: inexperienced newb picks anemone) and brought 'em home. He isn't bleached, beautiful tan color with a white foot and purple tips. Problem is.. I can't get him to settle in. I know it's only been like eight hours but it's freaking me out because the curlique didn't float around the tank like this. It's literally like he's dead.. His tentacles aren't shrived but he made them way short but he also flared out. Like way out, almost looking like a carpet or something. And he just floats around the tank wherever the current takes him. I guess I'm fretting so much because I don't want him to slosh around everywhere and get hurt when I'm not looking. I've tried high and low on the rock structures and I even tried placing him in a crater my clown pair dug out in the sandbed in the calmer portion of the tank and he just floated away. Before everybody attacks me about waiting and blah blah blah I just wanted to know if there's anything I can do to help the little guy out and help him settle in?
Also, is he safe to touch barehanded?
Should I go ahead and feed him and turn the lights back on as well? They've been off most of the day.
Tank specs:
55 gal tank
100-110 lbs live and seeding rock
60 lbs aragonite sand
Host of snails
Courting pair of oscellaris clowns
Pair of domino damsels (Yes, pair. They paired like the clowns.. Weirdest thing)
Curlique anemone
1300 gph powerhead (I know I need two and a wavemaker.. Working on it)
Glass top with two long LED strips.. Probably 25 or so 3W white LED's per strip with seven or eight blue 3W LED modules built in about a half inch above the glass on feet.
Tank's been up for over a year, water parameters all read great. Salinity may have been a little high, I forgot to top off before I added him.. Should I top it off now and lower the salinity?
Sorry for so many questions for all of you that made it this far!! I'm just new to this anemone thing (no coral experience) so I'm a little freaked out and don't have any friends into this stuff. Thanks again for all of your help. Any other tips on keeping nems would be extremely helpful as well.
UPDATE: As I was typing I turned on the lights... And then things really got weird. I tried to set the nem on the deepest part of the sandbed, on a mound of sorts, nestled between some rock and it just climbed out and allowed itself to roll away. He's currently between the glass and live rock with his foot facing the glass. His foot looks amazing and healthy but over the past.. Thirty minutes or so, the strangest thing happened. The anemone's foot seemed to.. Swell? I guess with water I'm assuming. The anemone didn't envelope its tentacles in itself like I've seen but they did get shorter. Then all of a sudden I looked up and the tentacles had spread back out and the foot looked like it had a sunken in spot. In fact, as I was typing this the nem once again is swelling up except this time the left side underneath the tentacles (looks like a table) has a slight swell. And once again.. As I type this it's changing again. The entire anemone seems to be swelling up on the top under the tentacles. This is the most activity I've seen from the anemone since I added him to the tank.. So should I leave him on his side between the glass and rock even though he's not attached?
Still the same with the swelling as I hit submit..
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