Anemone health check-up assistance please.

[WhitePanther93]

So according to an old thread of mine I received my anemone around October 14th of 2021. This is my first ever Bubble tip anemone.

Here’s: a photo of it from that post:

Here’s it now:

Does it look healthy to you?

It’s only split once, and seems to like the bottom parts of my tank despite there being less par down there. For as long as I’ve had it, it doesn’t seem to have grown much. Should I be target feeding it more? Recently it’s only been sometimes grabbing a few mysis shrimp when I feed my fish.
I don’t see much in the way of bubble tips as of late, but I know that can happen.

Water parameters as of a few moments ago:

Alkalinity: 9.3
Calcium: 472
Nitrates: 11.3
Phosphates.06
Ph: 7.8
Salinity: 1.026

 

[littlefoxx]

So according to an old thread of mine I received my anemone around October 14th of 2021. This is my first ever Bubble tip anemone.

Here’s: a photo of it from that post:

Here’s it now:

Does it look healthy to you?

It’s only split once, and seems to like the bottom parts of my tank despite there being less par down there. For as long as I’ve had it, it doesn’t seem to have grown much. Should I be target feeding it more? Recently it’s only been sometimes grabbing a few mysis shrimp when I feed my fish.
I don’t see much in the way of bubble tips as of late, but I know that can happen.

Water parameters as of a few moments ago:

Alkalinity: 9.3
Calcium: 472
Nitrates: 11.3
Phosphates.06
Ph: 7.8
Salinity: 1.026

Nems are strange and look different all the time! I think it looks like its getting ready to poop actually. Do you have any clownfish hosting? I had two nems before and they just died, but the 5 I have now are healthy, the clowns take care of them. Just my experience though. And yeah they dont like lots of light it will bleach them

 

[GDiaz]

Hi there. It looks good to me. From what I have seen they move around to wherever they are most comfortable. I got mine to grow by adding a few drops of brightwell amino acids to the food. I would swap out between mysis and krill. Now I also do reef roids depending on my parameters.

The 1st image (10/2022) is how it turned 2 weeks after I first got it. I did not aclimate long enough and unfortunately that was the result. 2 image (now) has 2 nems. The one I’m talking about is to the right. Now I’m just focusing on it gaining its original color back.

 

[WhitePanther93]

Nems are strange and look different all the time! I think it looks like its getting ready to poop actually. Do you have any clownfish hosting? I had two nems before and they just died, but the 5 I have now are healthy, the clowns take care of them. Just my experience though. And yeah they dont like lots of light it will bleach them

Unfortunately no they don’t. my ****** clownfish decided to host my goniopora.I’m hoping to find a way to tempt them into hosting the nem.

 

[WhitePanther93]

Hi there. It looks good to me. From what I have seen they move around to wherever they are most comfortable. I got mine to grow by adding a few drops of brightwell amino acids to the food. I would swap out between mysis and krill. Now I also do reef roids depending on my parameters.

The 1st image (10/2022) is how it turned 2 weeks after I first got it. I did not aclimate long enough and unfortunately that was the result. 2 image (now) has 2 nems. The one I’m talking about is to the right. Now I’m just focusing on it gaining its original color back.

Do you feed them the reef roids in a slurry directly or do you dust broadcast feed your tank?

 

[littlefoxx]

Unfortunately no they don’t. my ****** clownfish decided to host my goniopora.I’m hoping to find a way to tempt them into hosting the nem.

Clownfish lol. Pain in the butt but we love them! My female hosts my nem in one of my tanks but bites me every time I have my hands in the tank changing nori for my tangs. Evil Lady is her name haha

 

[exnisstech]

Looks healthy to me. Some bubble some some don't and some bubble sometimes. It doesn't look like it has grown a lot tho as you said but hard to tell how much with nothing for reference.

And yeah they dont like lots of light it will bleach them

I've not found that to be the case with mine. The ones on top are sitting under 400+ par and the ones below 350 and perfectly happy and healthy.

 

[littlefoxx]

Looks healthy to me. Some bubble some some don't and some bubble sometimes. It doesn't look like it has grown a lot tho as you said but hard to tell how much with nothing for reference.


I've not found that to be the case with mine. The ones on top are sitting under 400+ par and the ones below 350 and perfectly happy and healthy.

Huh interesting! I have all my nems under my red sea lights. Maybe the biocube has crappy lighting for them!

 

[GDiaz]

Do you feed them the reef roids in a slurry directly or do you dust broadcast feed your tank?

In this tank because it’s a 15gl nano, I target feed only.