anenome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reefer44

reefer44

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I just purchased a sabae anenome the other day, and it was fine and all my perimeters are good and its under 2 metal halides and has a sabea clown to live in it and its tenecales are turning green and are smaller but some off them look white and puffy like normal,
if you know what is going on please type back
 
skirrby

skirrby

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Originally posted by reefer44
all my perimeters are good and its under 2 metal halides
that would be 2 halides
 
reefer44

reefer44

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it looks even better then when i got it now wow i have never had that happen before i fed it some shrimp maybe that helped
 
attml

attml

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Some deflation is normal but many LFS don't feed their anemones and often keep them under inadequate lighting. By the time the aquarist gets them they can be bordering on starvation and often the they expel their Zooxanthellae and look bleached. The fact that it is accepting food is a good sign and your halide lighting will help a lot if this is the case! If you can feed it finely chopped raw shrimp or silversides soaked in zoe or selcon that is a good place to start with a new anemone.
Mark
 
reefer44

reefer44

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I ran out of money (work at Domino's pizza just 15 years old)so i can't buy any new foods but i have a lot of organic shrimp and flounder to feed them on i hope that will be fine
 
attml

attml

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Food in general will be very helpful! If you get a little money Zoe is pretty cheap. About $7- $8 for about a 4 month supply. Good luck with the anemone!!
btw- I worked at Domino's Pizza for 6 years. Delivering Pizza paid for my college education!! That was a great job!!!
 
attml

attml

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Carole,
Look at my first post on this thread. That is where I told him to soak his food in it which is what I do. It has really helped me bring a Long Tentacle Anemone back from the dead! In my second entry I was just responding to reefer44 saying he didn't have any $ to buy any Zoe. I was trying to tell him that even with out the zoe or selcon that food would still be a benifit. If it sounded like I was telling him to use zoe alone as food sorry for the confusion that wasn't what I trying to get across! I have heard one or two aquarist on the anemone forum on the other board say that they have put zoe or selcon into a syringe and gently shot a little into the open mounth of a sick anemone that wouldn't eat. The theory being to try to bring it back to health with the vitamins but I have never tried that and am a little skepticle on that approach due to possible further damage to the anemone?
Mark
 
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synyster11

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I have tried 2 sebae's and they have gone downhill the second they get in my tank. Everything else does fine.. The last one I tried was bought from ***** and was over 12" wide. I felt sick when it died and will never buy another anenome. My two large sebae clowns were way too ruff with it.. and beat it to death...
Do what ever you can to keep it alive!!, Things can go south quick!
This was dead within 7 days..
 
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