Is my Anemone ok?

[asylumdown]

Was there any indication that your nem had previously been dyed? I bought a neon pink sebae anemone from wai's that I think came from the same tank as the one you got, not too long before you got yours. There were a couple others in there that were that colour. I didn't know that people actually dyed anemones, but when I got home and transferred it to a bucket for acclimation, the water it had come in was tinted pink, and the next morning the skimmate in my collection cup was also tinted pink. I looked it up, and it's apparently a pretty common practice in the Philippines. I took the anemone back that day, as the general consensus is that dying them kills 99.9% of the anemones that go through it, and if they start to expel the dye, it's common for them to expel all of it, leaving them really, really bleached, usually followed by a slow demise.

[daniella3d]

so far I bought 2 sebae that were bleached. One died and the second one make it because it was eating like a pig from day one and I feed it tons of mysis each day.

It went from a tiny 3" bleached thing to a huge 12" brown anemone with a green hue on the top of the body. It had lots of symbions now but I keep feeding it each day. It is home to my 2 clownfish.

The only hope with such anemone is that it eats. If it does not eats it is lost.

I don't think heat alone killed it, but a combinaison of water quality issue (ammonia should be 0!), heat and lack of food.

[tobysmurf]

Once this tank matures some more I may give another anemone a try, but for now I will focus on other creatures. I will also avoid buying a bleached anemone in the future, even if I can save them, it's so stressful! I've only done corals until now so anemones are new to me (as is this tank). I've learned a lot over the past little while and hopefully the next one will go better for me.