Long tentacle anemone not eating

[daniella3d]

They did go to inquire about it in the first day and even touched it but they won't go plunge into it and they now seem to have lost interest and have adopted a turbinaria coral since I removed the duncan.

I have put the duncan back near the anemone in the sand and see what happen. The anemone cannot touch it but it is pretty close so they might get the idea.

They tried to go into just about anything, even a frogspawn wich the male got sting by and never returned to see but if they go in frogspawn, duncan and a turbinaria, I don't see why not an anemone.

They are quite dumb though, so no telling what they will do next.

I have seen ocellaris clownfish in long tentacle anemone before, so I know they can host that type of anemone although it is not their host in the wild. Both of my clownfish are captive bread so they never saw an anemone in the wild either.

Anyway glad to hear that they don't really need to be fed. I cannot put other clownfish in there as they will fight.

Originally Posted by ponokareefer

If the anenome is shriveling up when the lights come on and moving to a low light location, your lights are too strong for it right now. It may take some time for it to get used to them, or it may never like that much light. Wherever it is located now, I would put about 3 layers of egg crate or something else to dim the lights above it.

As for it not eating in its first week, I would leave it alone until it it quits shriveling up. I typically wouldn't feed an anemone during the first week, and a lot of people have healthy anemones that they never directly feed. My anemone in my RSM130 hasn't been fed in over a year and still doing great.

Your clowns may never take to that type of anemone. Occelaris clownfish like Gigantea's and Magnificent's in the wild, so that is your best bet to get them to take to an anemone. With that said, those are 2 of the most difficult anemones to keep alive. The picture trick I have heard will sometimes work, but your clownfish may never take to the anemone. I had an occelaris pair that were in a tank for a year with an anemone and I tried every trick I could find and they wouldn't go anywhere near it.

If you want a type of clownfish that is supposed to go in almost any anemone and usually go in one quickly, get a pair of clarki's.