"Pszemol" wrote in message ...
The animal was used to not eating frequently.
It was growing so fast I was limiting its growth
with limiting food intake. For month or two at the time
it was under only supervision of the pair of maroon clowns
without dirrect feeding from my side.
When I fed it, it was ALWAYS READY to accept food.
Current state is not normal and worries me a lot.
I can still see it is alive, it is expanding little
and its oral opening reacts to food, but its tentacles
seem to loose the stings to be unable to capture food :-(

This morning I tried to feed it again since I noticed
it looked better than recently... Light were still out.

I have defrosted some amount of frozen plankton from Sanfrancisco Bay
http://www.sfbb.com/product_popup.as...=Plankton&id=1
(very small pieces of crustacean planktonic creatures ~1/8-1/4")
and squirt it into the tentacles of anemone with a turkey baster.
As expected, sick anemone did not accept the food, tentacles
harpoons did not fire and the food did not stick to its body.
Sleepy fish picked up the food, gladly... There was nothing left
for the anemone to eat.
I have noticed again that "mouth" (oral opening) expanded
towards the edge of the oral disk where the food touched it.
There was no food there so the mouth did not pick anything...

I decided to try something I planed befo spoon feed it.
I picked up one small planktonic crustacean with a twizers and
placed it in one of the grooves of the still expanded mouth.
The food piece was very, very tiny but it stuck to the mucus.
It was dangling there for a minute or two and I watched it
afraid fish will pick it up or just blow it away with fins.
Fortunatelly nothing like this happened - anemone slowly
contracted the food piece in between ist mouth growes...
It disappeared inside it. So I think it has eaten it.

I will try to repeat this with larger piece of crustacean,
maybe defrost some of the krill - maybe it will eat bigger
piece and slowly recover this way from its sickness...

Lets see what happens.