Need Help! Anemone not doing good.

shrimpchips · #1 10-29-2009, 05:30 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMikey

Is 80W PC enough for an anemone? Maybe it's not getting enough light.

If it's high up, probably - I have one under 48w (2x24w) of T5HO, but the bulbs are over a year old and on top of a saltspray covered glass canopy, and the nem is on the bottom of a BB 15g tank.

gcl581 · #2 10-29-2009, 04:25 PM

thanks for the replies.

i had to take it as im very worried the smell and the slimy aftermath. after some thinking, i think his foot may have been torn.

i don't know if its due to lighting, i had the same concerns so i put very high, he kept on trying to move away from it. i moved him back up, this is when the foot may have been torn.

any reason it would try to get away from the light?

Delphinus · #3 10-29-2009, 04:32 PM

Yes, it was sick. They'll move if they are uncomfortable.

Don't beat yourself up over the lighting: I can tell you 100% it was not your lighting that killed it. Inadequate lighting will cause it to slowly waste away over a very long period of time. A couple days to a week isn't going to do it, or if it IS going to do it, you're not starting off with a healthy specimen to begin with.