• What can oppress an anemone?

  • Jerry

Four days ago, I placed the anemone in the aquarium, and it immediately attached itself and partially inflated. It deflated overnight but didn't move anywhere. In the morning, it opened up again, but it seemed to me that it wasn't fully open. The color is good, green, and it seems that the zooxanthellae are fine. I fed the fish frozen brine shrimp and decided to give it a little bit; it took a bit and then deflated. In the evening, it crawled into the rocks and has been sitting there ever since. It's hanging upside down on a rock, deflated. What's wrong? The aquarium is 600 liters, all tests are normal, pH 8.2, temperature 26-26.5, lighting is MH 2*150W 20000K, the skimmer is working well, removing black waste, and the anti-phosphate, nitrate filter, and carbon are all on. The corals are doing great, the clownfish are fine, the two damselfish are also fine, and the new surgeon is eating algae. Everyone is healthy except for the anemone.

Lauren

The clown could chase her, that's why she ran away. My Entakmeia also hid from the clowns.

Tracy4603

Yes, but for the first two days the clown didn't notice her, and she deflated right after feeding. Now the clown is nibbling at her lightly.

Nicholas

Thank you, I will leave everything as it is, I guess I just have to wait if there is nothing that can be done to improve the conditions.

Kimberly2102

It's better to leave everything as it is for now, as they say - do no harm. By the way, you can later feed with frozen shrimp - I used to give a whole shrimp once a week, though the anemone was open and the size of a volleyball.

John3165

My previous anemone also ate shrimp with enthusiasm and even digested a tridacna, but as I have now realized, it died from loss of zooxanthellae after six months. (There was poor lighting.)

Monique1236

The clown really bothered the poor anemone; it seems like he even bit off some of its tentacles because the anemone is inflating as much as it can, and it clearly has too few tentacles. But no, everything is okay; I read about it from Americans, and it seems the clown saved the anemone. He removed the dead tentacles, and now they are regrowing. The question remains, why did this happen? Specifically, why did the tentacles die off?