Hi everyone!
I purchased a not so good looking carpet anemone from my LFS yesterday with the thought that maybe I can make it fill better in my tank.
The anemone mouth was gapping at the store but I thought I'll give it a chance anyway, the lights at the store was very bad so I thought that it will do better at my tank.
Anyway, I've acclimated the anemone to my tank water for around 2.5 hours using drip acclimation, I put the bag in the sump and drip the water in the bag, that way I keep stabilized temp while dripping water.
After putting the anemone at the bottom of the tank it looked good (I think, I really don't have a lot of experience with the carpet anemones) but the mouth was still gapping.
This evening after lights off the anemone shrink to 1/3 of it's size and I think I can see it insides (check image).
I have corals fish and another anemone in the tank.
Tank parameters:
Established around 46 days ago.
Water temp is between 77-78 ( according to my heater controller, I don't trust it so much since my glass temp checker says I'm 76-77)
Alkalinity is 8.7
ph 8.0
salinity is 0.025-0.026
Phospate is high(0.4-0.6), most probably since I added uncured dry rock to the tank when I've started it.
Calcium is around 440-450.
My question is, should I give it time? or is it a lost call? I don't want it killing everything but I really want to see it survive this!
I have few cleaner shrimps in that tank that have no problem walking all over the anemone, I find it kind of weird, aren't they supposed to get stung by it?
The anemone is constantly moving in its place, the mouth is getting bigger and smaller every minute.
There are pictures of it from the store and pictures of it from this evening around 40 minutes from picture to picture.
Thanks in advance!
I purchased a not so good looking carpet anemone from my LFS yesterday with the thought that maybe I can make it fill better in my tank.
The anemone mouth was gapping at the store but I thought I'll give it a chance anyway, the lights at the store was very bad so I thought that it will do better at my tank.
Anyway, I've acclimated the anemone to my tank water for around 2.5 hours using drip acclimation, I put the bag in the sump and drip the water in the bag, that way I keep stabilized temp while dripping water.
After putting the anemone at the bottom of the tank it looked good (I think, I really don't have a lot of experience with the carpet anemones) but the mouth was still gapping.
This evening after lights off the anemone shrink to 1/3 of it's size and I think I can see it insides (check image).
I have corals fish and another anemone in the tank.
Tank parameters:
Established around 46 days ago.
Water temp is between 77-78 ( according to my heater controller, I don't trust it so much since my glass temp checker says I'm 76-77)
Alkalinity is 8.7
ph 8.0
salinity is 0.025-0.026
Phospate is high(0.4-0.6), most probably since I added uncured dry rock to the tank when I've started it.
Calcium is around 440-450.
My question is, should I give it time? or is it a lost call? I don't want it killing everything but I really want to see it survive this!
I have few cleaner shrimps in that tank that have no problem walking all over the anemone, I find it kind of weird, aren't they supposed to get stung by it?
The anemone is constantly moving in its place, the mouth is getting bigger and smaller every minute.
There are pictures of it from the store and pictures of it from this evening around 40 minutes from picture to picture.
Thanks in advance!