Nordy
Well-Known Member
Hey,
Why do nems move? I have a nexus joker bubble tip anemone and it seemed great in its placement for two months. Then it split. I thought that it was doing great, or it was doing poorly and needed to split as a means for survival. So I had two side by side, and I thought well cool, all is well, there’s light, a little flow, maybe they’ll someday host some clowns. I ended up getting 3 great clownfish, that are captive bred, but they are not interested in being anemone hosted. I’ve tried all the tricks to get them to seek out the nems, but there captive bred, in a rectangular reef tank with no aggressive fish, they don’t need a nem. I have a superfluous amount of flow in my tank, and the nems only get a fraction of it, so it would be a perfect place for Nemo’s to seek refuge. No luck.. So one day one of the nems moved. And it really decided to cover some distance. Up the aqua scape in very direct light and next to one of my corals. Upon seeing this, I was dismayed, and several hours later, had a small sicce pump out trying to dislodge its hold on the rock. It took me 55 minutes to dislodge my nem, and I also had to switch to a larger Sicce pump. I have a spare return pump, and almost dug that out for my nem foot detachment effort. So that was a month ago. 2nd anemone in original place I presume was happy, but today it went for a walk about. Tomorrow depending on where it ends up, hopefully not in a wavemaker, it will be going to the hospital tank I have going holding its counterpart for now. So why would it decide on relocating itself? I’m to the point I got my corals in there forever spot, and I don’t want any conflict with a nem and a sessile coral having contact. All parameters are good, flow and lighting in nems original place was ideal to accommodate them. I never feed them, light, fish food and phytoplankton/zooplankton are added in tank regularly. What gives?
Why do nems move? I have a nexus joker bubble tip anemone and it seemed great in its placement for two months. Then it split. I thought that it was doing great, or it was doing poorly and needed to split as a means for survival. So I had two side by side, and I thought well cool, all is well, there’s light, a little flow, maybe they’ll someday host some clowns. I ended up getting 3 great clownfish, that are captive bred, but they are not interested in being anemone hosted. I’ve tried all the tricks to get them to seek out the nems, but there captive bred, in a rectangular reef tank with no aggressive fish, they don’t need a nem. I have a superfluous amount of flow in my tank, and the nems only get a fraction of it, so it would be a perfect place for Nemo’s to seek refuge. No luck.. So one day one of the nems moved. And it really decided to cover some distance. Up the aqua scape in very direct light and next to one of my corals. Upon seeing this, I was dismayed, and several hours later, had a small sicce pump out trying to dislodge its hold on the rock. It took me 55 minutes to dislodge my nem, and I also had to switch to a larger Sicce pump. I have a spare return pump, and almost dug that out for my nem foot detachment effort. So that was a month ago. 2nd anemone in original place I presume was happy, but today it went for a walk about. Tomorrow depending on where it ends up, hopefully not in a wavemaker, it will be going to the hospital tank I have going holding its counterpart for now. So why would it decide on relocating itself? I’m to the point I got my corals in there forever spot, and I don’t want any conflict with a nem and a sessile coral having contact. All parameters are good, flow and lighting in nems original place was ideal to accommodate them. I never feed them, light, fish food and phytoplankton/zooplankton are added in tank regularly. What gives?
