does this seabe look ok

[sacfishguy]

i got him today and my clown loves it but not sure on his health. he moved around for a while and seems to be put for now. tried to feed him but he doesn't want to eat. any ideas or comments

 

[thomas712]

Its going to be some time before he can regain his zooxanthellae, but otherwise looks like an ok specimen with the exception of being white. I hope you have metal halides for the sebaes' sake.
Give him a few days to get accustom to your tank the try to feed him again.
Thomas
Let me know when he gets healthy and looks better like this.

 

[sacfishguy]

i have him in a 1X250MH and 2 X55 PC in a 50 gallon tank

 

[unleashed]

Originally Posted by sacfishguy
i got him today and my clown loves it but not sure on his health. he moved around for a while and seems to be put for now. tried to feed him but he doesn't want to eat. any ideas or comments
I recomend feeding him a daily dose of liquid life cyclopseze it comes in a pump type bottle much easier to dose than the frozen block variety. give it a one or 2 pumps dose daily.it looks like a nice full specimine as thomas stated ,just severly bleached.do not feed it silverslides (EVER) stick with small chopped meaty foods such as mysis shrimp, phlankton, chopped squid,chopped fish(raw).yez it will eat silver slides but they cannot digest the entire contents of them such as skin scales and bones so it will regergitate them back into your tank.also be sure you do have it under MH lighting it will not servive under less intense lighting

 

[crox]

It looks ok to me but like Thomas said it's a little too white. He will be ok. :cheer:

 

[crox]

Thomas
I don't know if you remember my BTA. The one with white specs. He's accepting food (raw shrimp and silversides) and now he's getting darker in color. Is that ok? :help:

 

[thomas712]

Crox~ that sounds fine to me, take another pic and show it.

 

[crox]

There You Go

 

[crox]

:help: :help: Thomas? :help: :help:

 

[sacfishguy]

do seabes like to be on live rock or in the sandbed.

 

[crox]

I believed that they stay in the sand but from Thomas picture it looks like he's happy on the rocks.

 

[clown123]

both! thwy go on anything :jumping:

 

[sacfishguy]

I came home today and it looks all shrunk up and about half of its tentacles are deflated. What should I do?

 

[crox]

He's still looking good to me. :jumping:

 

[crox]

Bump

 

[crox]

Thomas
I am waiting......

 

[thomas712]

Crox~ I've actually spent a lot of time looking for an anemone like yours. I think I had seen one at one time. I've been looking at atlantic and pacific ones, but just can't seem to locate one like that.
My thoughts are that it is not a BTA, but sometimes its hard to be sure. I've just never seen one with white streaking before.
Its been hard to reach the computer lately, my office area is blocked by the kitchen and utility room that have been completely demolished and they are remodeling it. So I have not been on alot in the last few days...
If its accepting food then good, if its getting darker then good, however is it loosing those white streaks or spots?
Thomas

 

[crox]

homas - It is getting darker in color like a tannish kind of brown. No the streaks are still there. I did move the rock so I'll take another picture form the front.

 

[sacfishguy]

still not sure if it looking ok. can anybody tell me if it is dead. it looks like it is turned inside out. i have been feeding it cyclopseze every day.
my levels are
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 10
Calcium 460
Ph 8.3
Temp 80-81

 

[thomas712]

Stop fouling the water with feeding a new anemone. What I see isn't healthy right now. Make sure your water tests well, and leave him alone for a few days, but watch him very carefully because if his insides are truly coming out its not a good sign. If it is indeed a meltdown then it won't take long.
Thomas