Weird looking buble tip anemone

[Manoah]

Hello everyone.

I got my second buble tip anemone last week. My first one got stuck in the wavemaker. Which is weird becouse i protected it but this time its even better protected. But yesterday i saw something weird. When i put him in the tank 3 days ago he moved underneath a small peace of rock en shrunken up en deflated. Then i removed the rock and he was inflated in 20 minutes and looked fine. But now the same time as yesterday he is deflated and inflated again but isn’t under a rock right know so i don’t know what to do. The lighting i just a stock light that was delivered with the tank i have the light on 100% for 9 hours and 50% for 4 hours. I will add some pictures too. Normaly the light is blue like you see on the last picture but its easyer to see everything on camera with the white color

So does anybody know what this could be?


The tank is a 18 gallon high. 20 inch high and 14 inch wide and deep.

Live stock:

2 ocellaris clownfish
2 blue hermit crabs
1 trochus snail
1 scarlet cleaner shrimp
1 nassarius snail

Corals:
1 blastomussa wellis
1 acan

The tank is 4 months old and cycled for about 3.5 moths everything is doing fine and healthy.


Here’s my tank parameters:

nitate ≈ 10ppm

Nitrite ≈ 0.01

Phosphates ≈ 0,02 ppm

Ph ≈ 8.1

Kh ≈ 9.3

Calcium ≈ 465

The last picture is how he normaly looks.

I also see some brown little ball clinging to his tentacles

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Tank's too young for a BTA. They need 8 months, at least if the tank was started with dry rock. It looks quite unhappy to me.

 

[Manoah]

Tank's too young for a BTA. They need 8 months, at least if the tank was started with dry rock. It looks quite unhappy to me.

I heard from different sources that i can put an anemone in after the tank is cycled.

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

I heard from different sources that i can put an anemone in after the tank is cycled.

Those sources are wrong. Anemones need stability and an established tank to survive.

 

[Manoah]

Those sources are wrong. Anemones need stability and an established tank to survive.

Okay but why is he doing this the third day he is in here. I test my water everyday and its stable

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Okay but why is he doing this the third day he is in here. I test my water everyday and its stable

Because there's more to it than just parameters. They also need established bacteria populations. It's a good idea to wait for a layer of coralline algae to appear on the rocks before adding an anemone, that tells you that the system is ready.

 

[Manoah]

Because there's more to it than just parameters. They also need established bacteria populations. It's a good idea to wait for a layer of coralline algae to appear on the rocks before adding an anemone, that tells you that the system is ready.

Okay thank you for the help. I hope he will survive and if not i will wait a little longer but have you any idea why he is doing this and sometimes he isn’t

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Okay thank you for the help. I hope he will survive and if not i will wait a little longer but have you any idea why he is doing this and sometimes he isn’t

It's a deflation cycle which you're seeing. The anemone spends a while open, and then shrinks up. It's a sign of being unhappy. Eventually it will stop opening, and will wither away. It might survive if you introduce some real live rock to the system and try to keep parameters stable, but more often than not, anemones in new systems fail to thrive.

 

[Manoah]

It's a deflation cycle which you're seeing. The anemone spends a while open, and then shrinks up. It's a sign of being unhappy. Eventually it will stop opening, and will wither away. It might survive if you introduce some real live rock to the system and try to keep parameters stable, but more often than not, anemones in new systems fail to thrive.

Thats sad to hear. I will add some live rock. But you where talking about coralline algea. I think i have some begining coralline algea. I saw some green spots of algea on my rocks and i searched it up an i think its green coralline algea popping up. What do you think?

 

[Anemone_Fanatic]

Thats sad to hear. I will add some live rock. But you where talking about coralline algea. I think i have some begining coralline algea. I saw some green spots of algea on my rocks and i searched it up an i think its green coralline algea popping up. What do you think?

Could be. It could also be one of many different kinds of green filamentous algae. When I say coralline algae, I mean the purple/pink/red stuff. It also should grow out a bit more, something like 65% of the rock covered is a good amount.

 

[Manoah]

Could be. It could also be one of many different kinds of green filamentous algae. When I say coralline algae, I mean the purple/pink/red stuff. It also should grow out a bit more, something like 65% of the rock covered is a good amount.

Okay thanks for your help!