Giving up on my anemone who won't give up on me

[stimpy4242]

I am getting tired of my poor pathetic anemone, but he taunts me by not dying! He shrivels up to the tiniest thing. He is bleach white as can be with long stringy tentacles, but then the next day he is slightly more inflated and he does this pattern non stop.
I have sps, lps and other corals that are doing just fine in my tank. The water conditions are ideal. I use RODI. I have nice solaris lighting. I feed the anemone about twice a week, I guess I could stop feeding it and it would die...certainly doesn't have any zooxanthella or whatever that stuff is.
I almost want to send it to somoene who can nurse it back to health and then ship it back to me...any takers?
Anyone in maryland who wants to come take a look? I don't know what to do.

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by stimpy4242
http:///forum/post/2575743
I am getting tired of my poor pathetic anemone, but he taunts me by not dying! He shrivels up to the tiniest thing. He is bleach white as can be with long stringy tentacles, but then the next day he is slightly more inflated and he does this pattern non stop.
I have sps, lps and other corals that are doing just fine in my tank. The water conditions are ideal. I use RODI. I have nice solaris lighting. I feed the anemone about twice a week, I guess I could stop feeding it and it would die...certainly doesn't have any zooxanthella or whatever that stuff is.
I almost want to send it to somoene who can nurse it back to health and then ship it back to me...any takers?
Anyone in maryland who wants to come take a look? I don't know what to do.

What kind of anemone? What size tank do you have? Obviously you have sufficient lighting if you have SPS corals. I would have to ask, how long have you had it, and what type of light was it under prior to entering your tank?
I would almost have to say pending the answer to the above questions, you may be in some conflict with toxins with the sps, lps, and anemone. But to get a better idea it would help to know the answers to the questions I asked above.

 

[stimpy4242]

I have a 180 gallon tank. I have had the anemone for about a year. It came from SWF.com. The closest coral to it are pulsing xenia and they are about 7 inches away, next comes a tiny pink birdsnest also about the same distance, but the birdsnest was added after the anemone was acting like this, so it can't be that.

 

[perfectdark]

Well chemical warfare doesnt have to be because the corals are close to eachother. Anemones can sense threats in nearby waters and either move to another place or compete with them. Some sps corals in tank can be far away from another potential threat and wage war, so to speak. I admit this is a far stretch in such a large tank.
Have you done anything new to the tank latley, changed anything out, added anything? Lighting, has it always been the same? Any changes in water chemistry? change the brand of salt you use? Just a couple of ideas.

 

[stimpy4242]

Yeah nothing and I should have said the SPS corals were added in the last two months and this has been going on for four months. The corals that were there before the sps were frogspawn, xenia and some mushrooms. Tere are vermetid snails everywhere included where the anemone is attached.

 

[gil5280]

u sead u wanted to give it to some1....... I'll take it

 

[stimpy4242]

but the caveat was that you would nurse it back to health and return it...judging by your posts, you probably aren't going to have the bets environment for it.