What is normal anemone behavior? Nem sucked in.

[cypike]

I bought this guy a few days ago and everything seemed fine, seemed like he found a spot and was inflated. Woke up this morning and he’s fully sucked in. Not sure if this is normal behavior or something I should be worrying about?

 

[KrisReef]

It looks okay for now. Did you feed it something? They sometimes close up when they are digesting a meal.

 

[cypike]

It looks okay for now. Did you feed it something? They sometimes close up when they are digesting a meal.

Nah didn’t feed it anything, food might have spilled into it from feeding my fish but it wouldn’t have been a lot

 

[PCPope]

I would say normal behavior, I just got back in the hobby with a Red Sea Max G2 Cube, and added a bubble tip that will not sit still, we are leaving him alone, adjusting the LED50 down to 40% blues and 20% white to see if he will come out from the low area he traveled to.

 

[cypike]

Must’ve been pretty normal

 

[cypike]

It moved to my pump? Is this normal?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

It moved to my pump? Is this normal?

Anemones move around! It is probably trying to find a spot where it wants to stay. Mine has gone from the back of my tank to the front to the top.

 

[cypike]

Anemones move around! It is probably trying to find a spot where it wants to stay. Mine has gone from the back of my tank to the front to the top.

Weridos

 

[BryanM]

Nems are the cats of reefing. I've had one relocate itself 10 times... the other one had stayed put for months and just moved last night.

 

[cypike]

It was wondering towards the power head last night so I had to put a net over it.

 

[JayM]

I'm not at all a nem expert, but I would assume that if it moved to the powerhead, it wasn't happy with the flow where it was. Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to coax it away from the powerhead and adjust flow so it's happy in a safer location.

 

[cypike]

I'm not at all a nem expert, but I would assume that if it moved to the powerhead, it wasn't happy with the flow where it was. Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to coax it away from the powerhead and adjust flow so it's happy in a safer location.

Right now it’s sitting on the return pump flow