Is my Anemone ok?

tobysmurf · #1 12-09-2012, 07:18 PM

I hope he lives too! His body is very bright red - almost orange. His tentacles are still quite sticky, last night 99% of the Mysis I squirted onto him stayed on his tentacles. I am always careful to feed the fish first so that they are more likely to leave his goodies alone.

As for acclimatizing him to my tank, I did the drip method on him - it took about 3 hours before it finished as my dip was a bit slower than it should have been but I didn't want to shock him since my salinity is a bit high right now (1.026). I will feed him once a day. Thanks again folks, I really appreciate the help and I've certainly learned some valuable lessons about making purchases without adequate research first!

tobysmurf · #2 12-10-2012, 04:20 AM

Here is a new pic from tonight. Anyone think he has a hope?

xenon · #3 12-10-2012, 04:23 AM

It's looking much better. Starting to see some brown. Good job!

Keep feeding it with small chunks of silversides and it will recover nicely.

mohammadali · #4 12-10-2012, 01:19 PM

my GBTA bleached when i bought it ,
i had to put it in my 20g with a florescent and just turn it on for a few hours and it got brownish and after while its kinda green

Madreefer · #5 12-10-2012, 05:29 PM

I've had a LTA in my tank for 12years. Bought it on an impusle buy and fed it for the first couple of months or so. I have never fed it since that time and it is doing awesome. So 12 years and no food. Makes me wonder if they need to be fed.

whatcaneyedo · #6 12-10-2012, 05:52 PM

A bleached anemone does not possess any zooxanthellae from which it would otherwise harvest energy. Without any additions of food they can starve to death just like anything else. A healthy anemone with all of its own zooxanthellae is basically self sufficient and as you've demonstrated does not need supplemental feeding. But thats not to say that it wouldn't benefit from a few scraps on occasion. Anemones are pretty good at capturing food on their own too. Or if you have clownfish with them they will probably feed it for you.

The anemone in the picture is looking a lot better. Previously when it had its insides coming out from its mouth it looked like many of the dead ones I've seen at our LFS.