Kelly
January 14th 04, 04:46 AM
once in awhile mine does that too. for no apparent reason he retracts right
in the middle of the day then comes back out later
"Layer3guru" > wrote in message
...
> The Anemone has seemed to answer my own question here are new pics of it
> coming back out. Sorry to bother I have just never seen one draw so far in
> like that before.
>
>
> "Layer3guru" > wrote in message
> ...
> > All,
> >
> > I got an Anemone from a well established taken care of tank, but this
> > person did mention to me he thought it was sick that it had some sort of
> > mucus coming from it the night before. Though it looked really healthy I
> got
> > it home on Sunday and it moved about my tank looking for a spot. Well it
> > decided to just burry itself in my sand bed against the back wall of the
> > tank. If you look at it from the back you can actually see the foot all
> the
> > way down to the bottom of my tank through the sand. Everything seem to
be
> > going fine until yesterday I tried to feed it mysis shrimp, and it held
on
> > to it for a very long time before it just let it go in the tank and my
> fish
> > gobbled it up. Well today I got home from work and it had retracted
itself
> > so that no tentacles are visble I have attached a picture to this post.
> >
> >
> > If anyone has any advise it would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > My Tank
> > 55 gallon 4foot X 12inches X 20 Inches
> > salinity 1.025
> > ph 8.1
> > nitrite 0
> > amonia 0
> > nitrate 0.25
> > 85 pounds of live rock
> > 50 pounds live sand
> > 2 175 watt MH
> > 2 65 watt actinics
> >
> > The Anemone came from a tank that had MH lighting also.
> >
> > You can see other pictures of healthy mushrooms that came from the same
> tank
> > that are now in mine by going to http://www.digitalrage.org
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
in the middle of the day then comes back out later
"Layer3guru" > wrote in message
...
> The Anemone has seemed to answer my own question here are new pics of it
> coming back out. Sorry to bother I have just never seen one draw so far in
> like that before.
>
>
> "Layer3guru" > wrote in message
> ...
> > All,
> >
> > I got an Anemone from a well established taken care of tank, but this
> > person did mention to me he thought it was sick that it had some sort of
> > mucus coming from it the night before. Though it looked really healthy I
> got
> > it home on Sunday and it moved about my tank looking for a spot. Well it
> > decided to just burry itself in my sand bed against the back wall of the
> > tank. If you look at it from the back you can actually see the foot all
> the
> > way down to the bottom of my tank through the sand. Everything seem to
be
> > going fine until yesterday I tried to feed it mysis shrimp, and it held
on
> > to it for a very long time before it just let it go in the tank and my
> fish
> > gobbled it up. Well today I got home from work and it had retracted
itself
> > so that no tentacles are visble I have attached a picture to this post.
> >
> >
> > If anyone has any advise it would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > My Tank
> > 55 gallon 4foot X 12inches X 20 Inches
> > salinity 1.025
> > ph 8.1
> > nitrite 0
> > amonia 0
> > nitrate 0.25
> > 85 pounds of live rock
> > 50 pounds live sand
> > 2 175 watt MH
> > 2 65 watt actinics
> >
> > The Anemone came from a tank that had MH lighting also.
> >
> > You can see other pictures of healthy mushrooms that came from the same
> tank
> > that are now in mine by going to http://www.digitalrage.org
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>