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Originally Posted by pammy  Oh my goodness! This is so funny. I came home, and the Anemone had moved into a cave. I looked at him, and he looked fine except that he had moved (strange because he hadn't moved in 2 weeks since I put him into my tank). I asked my son, if maybe the Anemone was upside down, and he was looking at his foot. My son said..."OH...yea...that's it.. I didn't know they had a foot". He must have flipped upside down, then flipped himself and moved into the cave, or the current took him in there. He wasn't expelling anything at all and looks fine!! Yay! |
Good to hear.
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I don't know if I should have left him in the cave or not, but I moved him back to his regular spot.
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I wouldn't get in the habit of moving it, if the foot is attached under the substrate you could damage the anemone - plus it's a lot of stress for the anemone and the clownfish.
Check your water parameters. Anemones will typically seal their mouth and detach their foot and do the whole "tumbleweed" thing only when the local conditions are sub-par (light, water flow, water quality). It may move again, so keep an eye on it. How brown is it now compared to when you got it? Have any other pigments started showing up, perhaps only under
actinics or blue moonlights?
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Now if the darn clown would stop stealing his food! It's not that the clown is eating it...he's just kicking it out. I stood guard for a while, but as soon as I took my arm out of the tank, the clown went and dug out the small piece of silverside I had put in. I thought he was trying to eat it, but he isn't. He just threw it away. How is this Anemone going to eat if the clown keeps pulling out the food? Should the Anemone be eating it much quicker?
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The food should be grabbed and "wrapped" in tentacles quite quickly, the anemone's tentacles should also be quite sticky and difficult for the clown to simply pull chunks off of. Do you feed the clown first? frozen mysis usually keeps them busy, might want to try some other foods on the anemone too - maybe it's not a fish-eater like most
Heteractis crispa ... or is yours an
H. malu? I can never remember which one is called the "Sebae".
