Hello, I'm new here... nice to meet you all!
I am running a 75 gallon reef aquarium with 10k and actinic bulbs, quite a bit of live rock, a blue damsel, clakii clown, turbos, blue legged crabs, and a few kinds of polyps, and a shrinking (dying) purple-tip anemone (host for the clarkii). The tank is about 4 years old, but I transplated it last October (8 months ago). Water parameters (nitrite/nitrate, pH, salinity, calcium) seem good by tests.
My questions are... what can I do to try to save the anemone (it is now only about an inch-and-a-half in diameter, and its tentacles are smaller than half-an-inch)... I have been trying to get it into stronger light, and feed it with Kent Microvert, and small pieces of silver-sides(bait). Any more suggestions?
I have lost several anemones in a similar way in the past, and never successfully kept one alive for more than a few months. Any suggestions for the future to keep anemones?
Thanks and Peace!
Update: specs: http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19872
Michael
I am running a 75 gallon reef aquarium with 10k and actinic bulbs, quite a bit of live rock, a blue damsel, clakii clown, turbos, blue legged crabs, and a few kinds of polyps, and a shrinking (dying) purple-tip anemone (host for the clarkii). The tank is about 4 years old, but I transplated it last October (8 months ago). Water parameters (nitrite/nitrate, pH, salinity, calcium) seem good by tests.
My questions are... what can I do to try to save the anemone (it is now only about an inch-and-a-half in diameter, and its tentacles are smaller than half-an-inch)... I have been trying to get it into stronger light, and feed it with Kent Microvert, and small pieces of silver-sides(bait). Any more suggestions?
I have lost several anemones in a similar way in the past, and never successfully kept one alive for more than a few months. Any suggestions for the future to keep anemones?
Thanks and Peace!
Update: specs: http://www.thereeftank.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19872
Michael