My Anemone Story

[TomW]

Traveled to my favorite LFS last weekend looking for additional fish for my
FOWLR 75 Gal tank. It's been up for 6 months with 3 small fish, crabs &
snails.

I bought a Coral Beauty, 3 green chromis, a yellow tail damsel, and an
anemone. The anemone was not a planned purchase. Received basic care and
feeding instructions at the store. I'm not sure what type it is. Tentacles
are about 1.5 inches long, flourescent green tips under a blue light. Took
the group home and acclimated them into the tank. Found a nice place between
LR for the anemone. It looked good. I proceeded to my PC and read as much as
I could find on care and feeding of this animal. I soon learned that I'm
probably more this animal's killer than I am keeper.

My lighting is obviously inadequate, totalling about 100w of light (white
and blue acintic in 48" strips). It seems to respond well to the blue light,
which is on more than the white.

My circulation is probably OK. I have a SQWD device on the output of my
wet/dry filter, as well as separate power heads at each end of the tank

I tried feeding the animal a small piece of shrimp. Hermit crabs stole the
1st attempt. 6 line wrasse stole the 2nd attempt. A while later, I tried
again and I think I was successful. In the meantime, the anemone has
relocated itself to a remote corner of the tank, at first inverted, but now
on it's side. It looks healthy/unhealthy at different times (meaning
tentacles are shriveled at times). I'm going to try feeding again in a few
days. I'm thinking of feeding Tuesday and Saturday.

Any additional thoughts or comments would be appreciated. I obviously want
the animal to thrive, but I'm still taking baby steps in
understanding/maintaining the marine environment.

-Tom

[Dragon Slayer]

best advice i can give you is take it back to the lfs.
it's always best to research prior to getting anything for your tank
regardless how nice it looks, or how the lfs guy/gal tells the "easy to
keep" stories.

kc

"TomW" > wrote in message
...
> Traveled to my favorite LFS last weekend looking for additional fish for
my
> FOWLR 75 Gal tank. It's been up for 6 months with 3 small fish, crabs &
> snails.
>
> I bought a Coral Beauty, 3 green chromis, a yellow tail damsel, and an
> anemone. The anemone was not a planned purchase. Received basic care and
> feeding instructions at the store. I'm not sure what type it is. Tentacles
> are about 1.5 inches long, flourescent green tips under a blue light. Took
> the group home and acclimated them into the tank. Found a nice place
between
> LR for the anemone. It looked good. I proceeded to my PC and read as much
as
> I could find on care and feeding of this animal. I soon learned that I'm
> probably more this animal's killer than I am keeper.
>
> My lighting is obviously inadequate, totalling about 100w of light (white
> and blue acintic in 48" strips). It seems to respond well to the blue
light,
> which is on more than the white.
>
> My circulation is probably OK. I have a SQWD device on the output of my
> wet/dry filter, as well as separate power heads at each end of the tank
>
> I tried feeding the animal a small piece of shrimp. Hermit crabs stole the
> 1st attempt. 6 line wrasse stole the 2nd attempt. A while later, I tried
> again and I think I was successful. In the meantime, the anemone has
> relocated itself to a remote corner of the tank, at first inverted, but
now
> on it's side. It looks healthy/unhealthy at different times (meaning
> tentacles are shriveled at times). I'm going to try feeding again in a few
> days. I'm thinking of feeding Tuesday and Saturday.
>
> Any additional thoughts or comments would be appreciated. I obviously want
> the animal to thrive, but I'm still taking baby steps in
> understanding/maintaining the marine environment.
>
> -Tom
>
>
>

[wolfhedd]

i would check the nitrates and others, if the tank water looks good, can you
afford an immediate upgrade of lights, or addition? sounds like you may
have almost enough circulation. If not, maybe take him back, an anenome will
look good for 3 days even though he will die, unless water isnt perfect, but
dont worry alot of us learn this way, lol.
wolfhedd

"TomW" > wrote in message
...
> Traveled to my favorite LFS last weekend looking for additional fish for
my
> FOWLR 75 Gal tank. It's been up for 6 months with 3 small fish, crabs &
> snails.
>
> I bought a Coral Beauty, 3 green chromis, a yellow tail damsel, and an
> anemone. The anemone was not a planned purchase. Received basic care and
> feeding instructions at the store. I'm not sure what type it is. Tentacles
> are about 1.5 inches long, flourescent green tips under a blue light. Took
> the group home and acclimated them into the tank. Found a nice place
between
> LR for the anemone. It looked good. I proceeded to my PC and read as much
as
> I could find on care and feeding of this animal. I soon learned that I'm
> probably more this animal's killer than I am keeper.
>
> My lighting is obviously inadequate, totalling about 100w of light (white
> and blue acintic in 48" strips). It seems to respond well to the blue
light,
> which is on more than the white.
>
> My circulation is probably OK. I have a SQWD device on the output of my
> wet/dry filter, as well as separate power heads at each end of the tank
>
> I tried feeding the animal a small piece of shrimp. Hermit crabs stole the
> 1st attempt. 6 line wrasse stole the 2nd attempt. A while later, I tried
> again and I think I was successful. In the meantime, the anemone has
> relocated itself to a remote corner of the tank, at first inverted, but
now
> on it's side. It looks healthy/unhealthy at different times (meaning
> tentacles are shriveled at times). I'm going to try feeding again in a few
> days. I'm thinking of feeding Tuesday and Saturday.
>
> Any additional thoughts or comments would be appreciated. I obviously want
> the animal to thrive, but I'm still taking baby steps in
> understanding/maintaining the marine environment.
>
> -Tom
>
>
>