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Is he dieing?
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Heres another pic
anemone do deflate of and on and it doesn’t mean its dying. However, That is an LTA (long tentacle anemone) it does required lots of lighting for its survival in your tank. Something like metal halide will keep it going. What type of lighting do you have? and what are your water parameter?
Its not my only LTA i have. The one in the pic is a green tip the other is a purple tip doing great. however. The purple tip is about 3 inches closer to the light. Im running 4- 96w pc. White blue purple blue
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The purple tip right now
I believe your lighting should be sufficient. Are you getting 3-4 watt per gallon from the lights?
How long have you had it? LTAs do move around alot and sometime they move into a crevice or cave and never come back out and rot away in your tank. Do you feed it? and do they eat what you feed? Some LTAs that I used to have would never eat, but I did find out that LTAs do use the zooxanthellae for their food.
The bulbs are about 3 months old. I feed the 2 of them every day. They both eat 2 shrimp that i buy from food lion. The shrimp are about an inch or so big. The green tip hasnt eaten in 2 days. He will open up but not all of him. Maybe half or so. He is about 2 months in the tank and was in a nice crevis but 2 days ago he moved and this is what im dealing with
I’m not sure if being feed everyday would have anything to do with it. I usually feed my once a week and they are just as happy as a clam. It may just be that he doesn’t like where’s he at and continue to move and find a better place.
I guess just keep and eye on him for a while and hopefully he’ll inflate back up. If they start to deteriorate, meaning turning into a blob mess, get it out of the tank before it foul the water and mess with your water parameter and kill others.
Please keep us posted.
Thanx much reefman. Let me just ask a few questions please. Whats the differance between deflated and dieing? What am i looking for? Can i move him or let him move on his own? Hes more then half open do i try and feed or not? Hope im not being a pain. thanx
No problem we’re here to help. Usually when I see it deflates like that I notice its unhappy about something. Location of where its at or it trying to spit out the food it ate, it does that sometimes or the water may not be up to par. When its dieing it usually stay where it at and detach from the rock or become unrooted from the sand and start to turn into mush in couple of days. Let him be where he’s at if he don’t start moving to try to attach or burrow in couple days pay attention if his body even moving, if not he’s a gonner.
At this point do not feed it. I don’t think he’ll take food anyways. My opinion you should feed it once a week and not everyday. Hope this helps and let us know if we can be more help.
Ok will do. tyvm. Have a great night
Keep us posted.
LTA’s like to bury their foot in the sand, they’re not really considered a rock dwelling anemone. If it’s not happy and kind of loose on the rock, you may want to see if you can move it to a deeper, sandier area. It doesn’t look like it’s dying though - looks good to me.
That purple tip one kind of looks like a condy to me, but without seeing the column and base, it’s hard to tell - that one looks happy though.
I would cut back on the feeding somewhat and remember to only feed nems food that is at the most - the size of it’s mouth. Too much feeding really isn’t normal for most nems - they usually only are lucky enough to catch very small scraps of food in the ocean.
Anyway - my $.02 Good luck with it.
Update…as of this morning he is resting with the great clownfish in the sky
Just out of curiosity- are you sure?
When anemones die, they melt, and usually leave no signs of ever having been there.
The problem is, they move too - and when they do they sometimes end up in the back of the tank, behind the rocks, in a cave, deflated - which leaves the same “lack of existence” on their previous perch.
If it is in fact dead - do a water change now, and add extra carbon for a few days to get any funk out of the water. A dead anemone can quickly kill off an entire tank.
And if it is dead- I’m sorry about your loss. I hate losing animals - especially anemones.
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Just out of curiosity- are you sure?
When anemones die, they melt, and usually leave no signs of ever having been there.
The problem is, they move too - and when they do they sometimes end up in the back of the tank, behind the rocks, in a cave, deflated - which leaves the same “lack of existence” on their previous perch.
If it is in fact dead - do a water change now, and add extra carbon for a few days to get any funk out of the water. A dead anemone can quickly kill off an entire tank.
And if it is dead- I’m sorry about your loss. I hate losing animals - especially anemones.[/quote]
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