okay so yesterday i purchase a purple tipped saebe anemone from dpa and well tonight it looks terrible its light deflated an some brown strings are coming out of it… is it dying? if so this will be the 2nd anemone i lost (first one i lost due to salinty swings) my salinty has been staying at 1.024 with a refractometer and my ammonia tested out at 0 nitrites 0 nitrates 0 ph 8.4 please help me out im tired of throwing money down the toilet!
Basics questions everyone will ask every time you mention anemone’s dying:
Kind of lights?
Age of tank?
An anemone will inflate and deflate many many times over the first few days in a new environment, this is the nems way of acclimating it’s internal water to the external environment. Completely normal.
Nems also only have 1 oriface for eating and pooping - generally the brown stringy stuff coming out of the nem is just poop and is not to be worried about.
the brown stringy stuff is coming out of mouth right? it was a streess indicator. it was either pooping or pucking up its guts. give him a day to settle in and it should improve. after i feed my bubble coral and anemones they poop out the brown stringy stuff around 24 hrs later.
for lights i have 2 175 mh and pcs and age of tank i wanta say around 4 months or so? i guess its coming from the mouth with it so deflated its hard to tell which is foot and which is mouth when i put it in the tank it put it on top of a rock under the mh so it could get light and it fell between two rocks and sat there then i moved it out since it was so deflated looking also the tank is a 90 gallon with refugium
and if it dies mom said she will not lend me anymore money for the tank :-("
Hope for the best for ya
leave it alone, it will go where it wants. i have had 2 gbta’s in my 90 for over a month now, and they are still getting situated… tank sounds fine. it just needs to find its happy place.
The sebea’s that were at DPA looked like they were a little bleached. This is usally the case with sebeas. If yours looked very white with purple tips you are going to have to acclimate it to your lights slowly. If it starts to turn a nice cream tan color then you are on the right track. I would place it on the sand near a rock. I think most sebea’s are sand dwellers.
Good luck.
well i looked at it today before i left and it had moved itself over to another rock and was looking alot better today hopefully it will be fine.
yeah it still look great now on the same rock and i can see a little bit of the tanish color that ur talking about should be fine now thanks for all the info apparantly it was just acclimating/pooping
Yea having the same problem with the purple tip sebaes in my tank… Bought one floated around my tank a long while then got caught in a powerhead. The second floated around also so then i gave up and if it lands foots itself and appears in my tank healthy ok but otherwise my othe nems are great. Try a bubble or rose tip… much hardier.