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Old 08-06-2009, 09:17 AM   #1
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Ok. I have two anemones in my 150. One red the other green. One is huge the other is puny....Think the reason is because I cant get the food into his mouth and he in tucked in the sand under a piece of base rock. He hasnt moved for the last at least 2 months... but its hard to feed him there and he is very pale.... I try to feed him silversides but he tucks in too tight to get the foold in if I barely touch him with the feeding prong... Yesterday after reading assorted posts on this, gave him krill...but I think other fish ate some before he could close ..so Im just not sure how much food he is getting. He is attached to sand or the base of that rock and it makes it hard to get to him..I need your help badly guys...I want him to rebound to the fluffy guy he was once...

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Old 08-06-2009, 07:29 PM   #2
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Ok. I have two anemones in my 150. One red the other green. One is huge the other is puny....Think the reason is because I cant get the food into his mouth and he in tucked in the sand under a piece of base rock. He hasnt moved for the last at least 2 months... but its hard to feed him there and he is very pale.... I try to feed him silversides but he tucks in too tight to get the foold in if I barely touch him with the feeding prong... Yesterday after reading assorted posts on this, gave him krill...but I think other fish ate some before he could close ..so Im just not sure how much food he is getting. He is attached to sand or the base of that rock and it makes it hard to get to him..I need your help badly guys...I want him to rebound to the fluffy guy he was once...

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can you move some of the rocks to get to him .He doesn't sound happy and you should make an effort to get him back in shape
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Old 08-09-2009, 04:33 PM   #3
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Pix please: I might add that if your BTA's are not monoclonal, they tend to reject other BTAs aggressively, have you tried to put the small one in a separte water column?

Feeding small finely divided feedings every other day should do the trick, but the anemones do not recover overnight. You will need to builid up their nutritional stores over a period of weeks to rebuild their biomass.

Be patient and continue TARGET feeding the anemone at the sawme time every other day. I usually will feed the fish some of the same blender mush first, then fight off the fish as I feed the anemones. This pre-feeding the fish helps to stimulate a feed response in the anemones (and Scolymia spp. as well) by chumming the water so they will readily accept the food when you target feed them (Scolymia and Cynarina spp. will expand their feeding tentacles during the fish feeding due to their sensing of the dissolved organics from the blender mush, after which you can target feed these non-aggresesive feeders with a bulb syringe at the same time you feed your anemones. It is better to do this at the end of your photoperiod).



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I meant to aska; what kind of lighting are you using and how do you recirculate current in the tank?
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