[5280Flyer]

Any help~
The mouth seems to be open wide and not all the tentacles are inflating... also my clowns are not laying with it.. just noticed it today. Water checks out good... I added the nem and a pair of clowns into the tank last sunday all seemed well started hosting the nem after 12 hours. Clowns are about the same size and were showing signs of figuring out who the female would be. after about 3 days a dominate one took over the nem only to share at night sometimes.... This morning nem looks sad and the lesser dominate fish has nips on fins and sorta onside at top of water.... pics to come

 

[5280Flyer]

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[ynot65]

pics wont come up

 

[5280Flyer]

I have them as an email http://address... maybe secured? How do you upload them?

 

[5280Flyer]

Ok here they are

 

[ynot65]

Good pics, What is it doing or what are you seeing that your concerned about it looks ok?

 

[5280Flyer]

The mouth seems to be open wide and not all the tentacles are inflating... also my clowns are not laying with it.. just noticed it today. Water checks out good... I added the nem and a pair of clowns into the tank last sunday all seemed well started hosting the nem after 12 hours. Clowns are about the same size and were showing signs of figuring out who the female would be. after about 3 days a dominate one took over the nem only to share at night sometimes.... This morning nem looks sad and the lesser dominate fish has nips on fins and sorta onside at top of water.... pics to come

 

[ynot65]

Your clowns may or may not host the nem,they're finicky to say the least but always curious. I would just keep an eye on it. The clowns take time to establish sex and hiearchy so the fin nipping is a part of that. I have seen clowns go after each other and when they are set on driving someone out they are very relentless driving the weaker right to the top of the tank, but it goes way beyond fin nipping. Just let nature run its course. I'm sure some others will be of more help on the nem. Welcome to the reef!

 

[ska d]

http://WWW.thereeftank.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1938&pictureid=13225
I don't know if I did this right . I don't know why it isnt an easier process to post a pic. Im currently using a smartphone (even on my pc at home i have a problem) i can upload pics to my gallary by choosing a file (actually tapping the pic) right from the phone. But when i try to choose a file while trying ro post it guves me a hard time (not unlike this keyboard) bery frustratung. Lol
Anyways to the point, if you cant view the pic youll have to go to my gallary (just spent my lunch break trting to do this and got no where) My sebae looked similar to that when i got it and was told it was suppose to look like that. Unless there are different color variations it is bleached out a bit. It took mine a good 3-4 months to really color up. Dont feed it at the moment. Let it settle down and color up a bit. I jad mine under t5s and it did quite well. Its now under leds ans is about 12" across.

 

[ska d]

OK it seemed to work. Here's what it looked like originally.
http://WWW.thereeftank.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1938&pictureid=13607
Its not the greatest pic old phone cam.

 

[5280Flyer]

Wow! I did read that the white ones could be bleached but no body had an exact answer which seems to be the common answer to my questions lol As for feeding I am not... But my clowns get a diet of frozen mysis and flaked food.. However they are more then generous with feeding the nem some flake food but never the mysis.. Is that bad?

 

[5280Flyer]

I am concerned about the mouth of mine being so wide open, The pic of yours its closed

 

[ska d]

Actually I should have mentioned that the clown (s) will take care of feeding it. I haven't fed mine in over a year. Don't worry to much about the mouth just yet. Mine did the same. Its more important that the nem has found a spot it likes. If it has taken a foot hold (usually under a rock and on the glass) and your lighting is sufficient it should be OK. How old is the tank.

 

[5280Flyer]

Yes. It never moved to much I have it under LEDs I can see it grabbing onto the rock. The tank is about a month and a half. The rock and coral was in my old 10 gallon that was running for a year. I am real worried about my clown that is being bullied keeps going belly up and only flipping over to run from the attacking clown....

 

[CarlJ]

I've only had a single condy, so I really don't know much, but what I understood and what I experienced was that an open mouth meant it was ready for food. I thought I had read how long it has been in your tank, but I couldn't find it when I looked back. Some critters can take a couple weeks after initial acclimation to truly and fully acclimate to your tank's conditions (water, flow, light). If's she's staying put, I don't think I'd worry too much. If it's been a few days, I'd almost try a small piece of food and see if the mouth closes up after that. Mine preferred minced raw shrimp and occasionally pureed squid, but it ate mysis, brine, clam, and even occasionally a blood worm. Silversides and krill were commonly posted favorites, although I never tried either.

Anemone are waste intensive, so make sure what you feed them is finely chopped and feed it sparingly until you determine how much it will eat and what it's schedule is likely to be. I've seen everything from every other day to once every couple of weeks. My condy settled into a pattern of about three times in two weeks very quickly, but was a bit hungrier the first few weeks until it recovered from the pet shop and its zooathellae balanced out with my lighting.

 

[ska d]

When you say the clown is going belly up, is it also kind of twitching a bit. This is actually normal behavior. It is a sign that one is becoming submissive. I always thought it was the male that did this. But I've had that clown in the pick a few years and out of nowhere a while back she laid eggs on a rock (no males in with her) so I figured why not get her a mate. So I picked up a tiny (well compared to her) male and within hours she not he was turning belly up and twitching. Within a week they she laid eggs again. I felt bad for her being alone but now they won't stop laying eggs. They have never survived but they just keep trying. I don't want babies. Had the big V done years ago to avoid it and now I'm afraid I'll have a hundred little babies to care for. Ahhh to much work. By the way I work in a school so I get plenty of time around kids. Lol