fraglerock
Member
I went to move my Tube Anemone and I guess I pulled him out of his tube.
Is there a chance he will make a new tube and survive?
Thanks
Is there a chance he will make a new tube and survive?
Thanks
Tube Anemone help!
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fraglerock
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It was, or is about 6" long, 3 - 4" purple crown with a green center. When I first moved it, I thought it was in there.
But I noticed later that it came out of the sand where I moved it from.
It dose look ok.
I wanted to move it because it was under a legde and I wanted to get it in the light.
I'm going to try and feed it a piece of fish and see if it has an appetite.
I'll be posting the results. And let you know how it goes.
Thanks
But I noticed later that it came out of the sand where I moved it from.
It dose look ok.
I wanted to move it because it was under a legde and I wanted to get it in the light.
I'm going to try and feed it a piece of fish and see if it has an appetite.
I'll be posting the results. And let you know how it goes.
Thanks
fraglerock
Member
Well, I fed it a piece of silver side, it took it and consumed it. this morning it was out of the sand bout 2" tentacles spread wide and looking good.
Here are some pics.
Here are some pics.
fraglerock
Member
flower
Well-Known Member
Tube anemones don't need the light, they are nocturnal. Just for future reference....you don't need to "help" an anemone. They find their own happy place. You managed not to kill it this time, now you have to learn to leave healthy critters alone. If you don't like where the anemone has chosen as home adjust the power heads. FYI they also get large and eat your fish and shrimps. I loved my beautiful fish eater but it had to go after it got 12 inches around, what it didn't eat it just stung to death.
spanko
Active Member
Here is a good read.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/6/inverts
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/6/inverts
flower
Well-Known Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by spanko http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375226
Here is a good read.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/6/inverts
I almost feel like sending a message to the writer of your link. My beautiful tube anemone ate several cleaner shrimps..I didn’t know what happened to the first one that went missing, but with the second one I watched it do it right in front of my eyes. It really wasn’t the anemones fault, the shrimp climbed right into it. I assume the first one died that way as well.
Two lawnmower blennies went missing over time. Then I had a beautiful copperbanded butterfly fish, after weeks of QT I finally put it in my tank. when I got home from work the next morning I looked in my tank and there was my copperband in the anemone dead as a doornail. At first I thought something was wrong with the anemone until I realized it was a fish in it. The anemone released it after about an hour when it decided it wasn’t small enough to eat, and I used a net to remove the fish...it had lines of red welts on it and all the fins were stiff and sharp, even the gill fins were rigid and the fishes eyes were bulged. It looked like it had died from electric shock.
So I am not repeating some misinformation, but firsthand experience. That anemone was in my tank 3 wonderful years of no problems before the death began...but those tube anemones when they mature enough do indeed eat critters and kill fish. They don't go hunting, but once they get so big the fish can't avoid them and they do sting like a giant aiptasia.
It was also hands down the absolutely most beautiful creature I ever had in my tank, it glowed in the dark.
Originally Posted by spanko http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375226
Here is a good read.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/6/inverts
I almost feel like sending a message to the writer of your link. My beautiful tube anemone ate several cleaner shrimps..I didn’t know what happened to the first one that went missing, but with the second one I watched it do it right in front of my eyes. It really wasn’t the anemones fault, the shrimp climbed right into it. I assume the first one died that way as well.
Two lawnmower blennies went missing over time. Then I had a beautiful copperbanded butterfly fish, after weeks of QT I finally put it in my tank. when I got home from work the next morning I looked in my tank and there was my copperband in the anemone dead as a doornail. At first I thought something was wrong with the anemone until I realized it was a fish in it. The anemone released it after about an hour when it decided it wasn’t small enough to eat, and I used a net to remove the fish...it had lines of red welts on it and all the fins were stiff and sharp, even the gill fins were rigid and the fishes eyes were bulged. It looked like it had died from electric shock.
So I am not repeating some misinformation, but firsthand experience. That anemone was in my tank 3 wonderful years of no problems before the death began...but those tube anemones when they mature enough do indeed eat critters and kill fish. They don't go hunting, but once they get so big the fish can't avoid them and they do sting like a giant aiptasia.
It was also hands down the absolutely most beautiful creature I ever had in my tank, it glowed in the dark.
spanko
Active Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flower http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375230............... They don't go hunting, but once they get so big the fish can't avoid them and they do sting like a giant aiptasia.....
I think that is the qualifying statement right there Flower. Always the "problem" we face when trying to keep wild critters is a captive environment.
They sure are pretty though!!
Originally Posted by Flower http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375230............... They don't go hunting, but once they get so big the fish can't avoid them and they do sting like a giant aiptasia.....
I think that is the qualifying statement right there Flower. Always the "problem" we face when trying to keep wild critters is a captive environment.
They sure are pretty though!!
flower
Well-Known Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by spanko http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375233
I think that is the qualifying statement right there Flower. Always the "problem" we face when trying to keep wild critters is a captive environment.
They sure are pretty though!!
They are breath taking. I have never had anything that even came close to how beatiful it was. I fed mine chunks of jumbo raw shrimp peeled and devained, I would drop it on the thing and it had sticky stuff on it to grab it with, it would close up and have no trouble eating it.
That article said they eat tiny little stuff.
Originally Posted by spanko http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375233
I think that is the qualifying statement right there Flower. Always the "problem" we face when trying to keep wild critters is a captive environment.
They sure are pretty though!!
flower
Well-Known Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375238
My Pink tube anemone is pretty big....and I have noe lost a thing....I believe Renee and Greg also have tube anemones, and have not lost anything either
maybe yours was just hungry Flower...LOL....Mine gets scallops
so it eats well.....why eat LMB when you can have scallops
Maybe my fish were just stupid...The fish it ate were new guys. The ones that grew up with it stayed out of it's way. The shrimp crawled right in to die.
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375238
My Pink tube anemone is pretty big....and I have noe lost a thing....I believe Renee and Greg also have tube anemones, and have not lost anything either
maybe yours was just hungry Flower...LOL....Mine gets scallops
slice
Active Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flower http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375242
Maybe my fish were just stupid...
I can vouch for some fish just being stupid, like a green chromis that kept picking a fight with a three stripe damsel. You can guess how that worked out...
Originally Posted by Flower http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375242
I can vouch for some fish just being stupid, like a green chromis that kept picking a fight with a three stripe damsel. You can guess how that worked out...
S
saxman
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We never had ANY predation issues with the Cerianthus we've had for over 10 years, and it has been moved to different setups during that time, so it wasn't always with "fish that knew about it".
Back on topic: they can leave their tubes, set up in a different spot and regrow it.
Back on topic: they can leave their tubes, set up in a different spot and regrow it.
flower
Well-Known Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by saxman http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375259
We never had ANY predation issues with the Cerianthus we've had for over 10 years, and it has been moved to different setups during that time, so it wasn't always with "fish that knew about it".
Back on topic: they can leave their tubes, set up in a different spot and regrow it.
I had to dig in the sand and remove the old tube, the CUC critters avoided the spot so it isn't hard to find...it will be the only dirty spot on the sand.
Originally Posted by saxman http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375259
We never had ANY predation issues with the Cerianthus we've had for over 10 years, and it has been moved to different setups during that time, so it wasn't always with "fish that knew about it".
Back on topic: they can leave their tubes, set up in a different spot and regrow it.
I had to dig in the sand and remove the old tube, the CUC critters avoided the spot so it isn't hard to find...it will be the only dirty spot on the sand.
fraglerock
Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by saxman http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375259
Back on topic: they can leave their tubes, set up in a different spot and regrow it.
Thank you saxman.
Originally Posted by saxman http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375259
Back on topic: they can leave their tubes, set up in a different spot and regrow it.
Thank you saxman.
fraglerock
Member
Thank you for every ones input. My Tube Anemone looks to be doing fine.
This Internet thing is an amazing tool,
I had a salt tank in the 80's. Resources for information was limited to a couple of books I had and the guy at the LFS.
This site is the reason for my success in this hobby since 2007.
Thanks again
This Internet thing is an amazing tool,
This site is the reason for my success in this hobby since 2007.
Thanks again
flower
Well-Known Member
Quote:
Originally Posted by fraglerock http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375766
Thank you for every ones input. My Tube Anemone looks to be doing fine.
This Internet thing is an amazing tool,
I had a salt tank in the 80's. Resources for information was limited to a couple of books I had and the guy at the LFS.
This site is the reason for my success in this hobby since 2007.
Thanks again
That's why I love this site
My Tube anemone managed to wiggle its tentacles into the cover on the power heads 2Xs, and chopped its feelers to bits, it had nothing but little stubs and it all grew back and remained beautiful, they are a very tough critter. What amazed me was something as large as mine was could shrink into the tube and become the size of a quarter in a little dead looking sac.
Originally Posted by fraglerock http:///forum/thread/385025/tube-anemone-help#post_3375766
Thank you for every ones input. My Tube Anemone looks to be doing fine.
This Internet thing is an amazing tool,
This site is the reason for my success in this hobby since 2007.
Thanks again
That's why I love this site
My Tube anemone managed to wiggle its tentacles into the cover on the power heads 2Xs, and chopped its feelers to bits, it had nothing but little stubs and it all grew back and remained beautiful, they are a very tough critter. What amazed me was something as large as mine was could shrink into the tube and become the size of a quarter in a little dead looking sac.