Tank is over a year old. Parameters are good, though nitrate a tad high. Lighting is only about 2.5 w pg. Waiting on some compact lights 196w. tank is 5 gal. He is not sticky. His tentacled (not all) deflate and inflate, which I guess Im not too worried about. Different area of tentacles at different times. He has expelled solid black since the original white chunky (really looked like food) stuff. Havent seen him eat, let meaty food just sit on his mouth-just not hungry?
WPG is a very bas way to judge lighting. 250w of PC's are no comparison to 250w MH. the solid black was probably waste being expelled. they only have one hole, so the eat and poop through it (disgusting but true). you will want to get those nitrates down ASAP. anemones need excellent water parameters (0's throughout). HTH
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It really doesn't look that bad, but it not being sticky is a little worrisome. I'm sure Bobby is right about the black being waste. My 2 do the same from time to time.
First, Welcome to Tr, the BEST reefing forum on the Web.
I really hate to be the one to break this to you but, keeping an anemone in a 5 gallon tank is not conducive to it's longevity. I don't know who sold it to you but, I'd suggest you return it. It is more likely to die than live and when it does your tank water will turn rotten in a hurry jeopardizing anything else in there. Anemones need bright light to survive and any fixture with enough power to help keep it alive will heat your tank up too much and that will become a problem. Sorry, but in my humble opinion, the anemone purchase was a bad decision for your system.
Dick
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I was a seahorse keeper, but had to sell them over the summer because I was going to be gone. Not many inhabitants since them because with seahorses, inverts were about all I kept (goby or blenny or two). Now I guess Im knds starting from scratch again. I always wanted to do the anemone thing, but couldnt with the ponies! BTW there is a 6 line Wrasse that I bought, hoping to eat bristles-NOT- So far, no trouble between him and new yellow stripe clown .
About the not having eating thing... I guess he had at some point (expulsoin). not to worry yet??? More concerned I guess with the not sticky
that was supposed to [u]55[u] gallon:.
He wouldnt even fit in a 5 gallon
WELL, that's why I highly recommend posters preview, read and spell check every post. I had to go by what you typed not what you meant to type.
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