Clowns biting new anemone mouth

[Chad_P]

Hello

Have a haddoni carpet that I picked up from LFS last Tue. Acclimated well and settled in nicely. I was out of town this past weekend and noticed it seems to have deflated (I did turn down lighting at request of my LFS to help it acclimate) and notice today the clowns are fairly rough with the mouth. When I say deflated it’s not as big as the first couple of days. I see the clowns shoving themselves into the mouth and biting it.

Tank is 6 months old
Alk 7.8
Ca 432
Nitrate 5ppm
Phosphate 0.05 ppm
Temp 78
Salinity 1.025
3 radion Xr30 running ab+ program staring this week. 75% max but in a 4 week acclimation mode as we speak.

I was thinking maybe it’s pooping and fish are just going after it but not sure. Here are some pics. Hard to get good pic because it’s partially shaded. Haven’t been able to feed it yet

 

[James M]

It’s called mouthing there getting used to the sting

 

[Chad_P]

It’s called mouthing there getting used to the sting

Thanks! I didn’t realize they would go after the mouth of the Anemone so roughly. They almost seem to be trying to shove themselves in the mouth too.

 

[James M]

Thanks! I didn’t realize they would go after the mouth of the Anemone so roughly. They almost seem to be trying to shove themselves in the mouth too.

Yeah it kinda looks like there torching themselves

 

[Chad_P]

Didn’t end well. After a couple of weeks after treatment, I thought things were going well. Then all of a sudden started shrinking and then spilling guts.

Could never get it to settle it’s foot. Remained sticky but would never have a feeding response.

 

[James M]

Didn’t end well. After a couple of weeks after treatment, I thought things were going well. Then all of a sudden started shrinking and then spilling guts.

Could never get it to settle it’s foot. Remained sticky but would never have a feeding response.

Sorry to hear that

 

[Chad_P]

Sorry to hear that

Thanks. It sucks spent a lot of time trying to make it work and even treating it. I had a feeling it wouldn’t end well with having a hard time getting it to attach and no feeding response.

 

[Captain Quint]

Sorry to read of this.

Did its mouth always appear to be agape as shown in the initial pic?

 

[Chad_P]

Sorry to read of this.

Did its mouth always appear to be agape as shown in the initial pic?

Not all the time. It seemed to acclimate well but would be slightly agape. Not as bad as some pics that I’ve seen. I pulled it from the DT to treat and it seemed ok once I put back in the DT.

While back in the DT it never seemed to attach. I tried putting it close to a rock, pulled up my eggcrate to let it attach to the bottom and even tried using PVC around it to help it settle in. I even tried different substrate within the PVC thinking the sand was to fine.

I could never get a feeding response either. Was always sticky to the touch.