kelley5454
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So I got this anemone for my birthday that was hosting two golden strip clown fish, so the person who surprised me with it brought over all three. The anemone is orange and has really long tentacles (when streteched like 6-8" long) the foot of the anemone and bottom side are very pretty, pink with little spots or something like that.
The issue is the clown fish, they wiggle so much that the tentacles are becoming completely tangeled to the point where they are a darkish purple gray at the base and the area of the anemone around the attached area has lost some of its pink, and no water was getting in the bottoms of the tentacles. So I used a non sharp tool and untangeled some of them for him...finally they untangeled and I kept the fish away for a bit to let him re-inflate.....
Once the fish got back near him the same thing, well now he is almost flat on his rock where the whole center of him (mouth area I guess) is exposed and me female clown just sits on him and wiggles. causing more tangled, he is not nearly as inflated as when I picked him up...
My tank.
80 degrees, 0 Ammonia, o trites, 0 trates. 8.0 ph, 1.023 salinity.
Lighting PC ( I know, I know please don't flame, it was a birthday gift and the LFS knows me and told them that the PC's will support the anemone while the new tank is being set up which will probably have T5's) He is on a rock 2/3 way up the tank right under the lights and the tank has good flow (to the point where I had to re-aim the power heads to avoid tangeling the anemone). I am upgrading from a 55 to a 240 I think but the tanks haven't arrived here yet.
Will he be able to recover from this? Does anyone have anyideas?
Thanks for the help
Kelley
The issue is the clown fish, they wiggle so much that the tentacles are becoming completely tangeled to the point where they are a darkish purple gray at the base and the area of the anemone around the attached area has lost some of its pink, and no water was getting in the bottoms of the tentacles. So I used a non sharp tool and untangeled some of them for him...finally they untangeled and I kept the fish away for a bit to let him re-inflate.....
Once the fish got back near him the same thing, well now he is almost flat on his rock where the whole center of him (mouth area I guess) is exposed and me female clown just sits on him and wiggles. causing more tangled, he is not nearly as inflated as when I picked him up...
My tank.
80 degrees, 0 Ammonia, o trites, 0 trates. 8.0 ph, 1.023 salinity.
Lighting PC ( I know, I know please don't flame, it was a birthday gift and the LFS knows me and told them that the PC's will support the anemone while the new tank is being set up which will probably have T5's) He is on a rock 2/3 way up the tank right under the lights and the tank has good flow (to the point where I had to re-aim the power heads to avoid tangeling the anemone). I am upgrading from a 55 to a 240 I think but the tanks haven't arrived here yet.
Will he be able to recover from this? Does anyone have anyideas?
Thanks for the help
Kelley
