My anemone's behavior has changed over the last three weeks from the norm. Let me say up front on the good side, as far as I know its eating, the M. Clowns feed it and I haven't saw it drop the food. Sometimes it will hold the food for along time and then drop it and then the shrimp and snails will grab it, but I haven't seen this happen, that dosn't meant its not happening, he stays in a cave and I can't see all of him back up in there. I figure one of two things are going on, either its sick or it maybe splitting ( don't know the behavior of the Ann. when they split so I don't know about that) I have only done two things to the tank when its behavior started to change, I moved some LR around in the tank but I didn't mess with the LR around the Ann. core area, didnt want to upset it, and the second thing as ya'll know I have been doing alot of water changes.
I will give you a run down of the life in a day of my Ann. tell you what the norm is and what its doing now.
The MH lights go off in the evening and T5 come on, the Ann. starts to close up, its still doing this. In the morning my blue T5s come on and the Ann. starts to open up out of its sock, still doing this. The white T5s come on, it spreds open alittle more and the tentacles start to get longer to about, say 4 inches long, thats the norm, now they are only growing to about an inch long. The longer the T5s stay on the tentacles grow to about say, 5 to 6 inches long, norm, they are staying short now. When the MH lights come on, the Ann. starts to come out from under its rock where it stays and by the end of the MH light cycle it will be compleatly out from under its rock on the front face of the rock spread out to its max size and tentacle will be at their max, say 7 to 8 inches long. Thats the norm, what its doing now is to start to move like its going to come out but only makes it to the front underside of the cave it stays in, dosn't start to come up the front outside of the rock. I don't have a clue as to what is going on with it, but after three weeks I am getting concerned. I have another Ann. in the tank, if you recll, the small one I bought on line that the clowns almost killed. Its on a piece of LR about 6 inches above the big Ann. its doing great. The info on the sm Ann. most likely dosn't mean anything as far as the big Ann. goes but I thought I would offer you that info also. Anybody have a clue?
I will give you a run down of the life in a day of my Ann. tell you what the norm is and what its doing now.
The MH lights go off in the evening and T5 come on, the Ann. starts to close up, its still doing this. In the morning my blue T5s come on and the Ann. starts to open up out of its sock, still doing this. The white T5s come on, it spreds open alittle more and the tentacles start to get longer to about, say 4 inches long, thats the norm, now they are only growing to about an inch long. The longer the T5s stay on the tentacles grow to about say, 5 to 6 inches long, norm, they are staying short now. When the MH lights come on, the Ann. starts to come out from under its rock where it stays and by the end of the MH light cycle it will be compleatly out from under its rock on the front face of the rock spread out to its max size and tentacle will be at their max, say 7 to 8 inches long. Thats the norm, what its doing now is to start to move like its going to come out but only makes it to the front underside of the cave it stays in, dosn't start to come up the front outside of the rock. I don't have a clue as to what is going on with it, but after three weeks I am getting concerned. I have another Ann. in the tank, if you recll, the small one I bought on line that the clowns almost killed. Its on a piece of LR about 6 inches above the big Ann. its doing great. The info on the sm Ann. most likely dosn't mean anything as far as the big Ann. goes but I thought I would offer you that info also. Anybody have a clue?
