Anemone shrinking!!!

[yellowfin tuna]

hi all,,

my anemone keep for only about a week plus... attached itself to the same position i placed all the while.... doesnt change position at all..... been feeding a cube of mysis shrimp on alternate days... been eating well... sunddenly.. today just change home shrink til veri small.....

ph is the same.... nothing drastic happened...

can advice what is the reason and any solutions????

[cityofangels]

Anemones are very temperamental. They will shrink or expand now & then and it can be due to changes in water, diet, insufficient light etc.

Give it a couple of days and take note of the erratic behaviours. At the moment, I don't see any thing drastic happening.

[yellowfin tuna]

Anemones are very temperamental. They will shrink or expand now & then and it can be due to changes in water, diet, insufficient light etc.

Give it a couple of days and take note of the erratic behaviours. At the moment, I don't see any thing drastic happening.

ok... will monitor.... didnt know they are so sensitive:lol:

anyway... within the last two hrs... it is slowly expanding a little...

[Melvyn Tan]

Watch the signs of stringy tentacles and whether the mouth of the anemone is "loose" not signs you want in an anemone.

[yellowfin tuna]

heehee...

everything back to normal again... maybe eat too much... constipate....

[valerossi]

Marine life is diificult for us to maintain.

That's y they called 'Marine' or 'Wild'

[Terryz_]

I think they are just expelling the slate water in their body... No big problem...

[valerossi]

U wait for another few days and see any problem with it.

Just remember to check ur water parameter

[Nautical]

in case you have a clown which co-exist with the anemone, then watch for the clown's behaviour as well.

if the clown is avoiding the anemone, then it's probably a tell tale sign of imminent death of the anemone. saying this through my last experience.

[vincegoh]

I think they are just expelling the slate water in their body... No big problem...

Terryz has said it. It is just due its "breathing". Anemone will always expel stale water and take in fresh water now and then. This is very normal. Usually, once an anemone stabilise in your tank, it is quite hardy.

I have once accidentally tear off 1/3 of my pink anemone and it survive and is healthy as always.

[Circus Tank]

in case you have a clown which co-exist with the anemone, then watch for the clown's behaviour as well.

if the clown is avoiding the anemone, then it's probably a tell tale sign of imminent death of the anemone. saying this through my last experience.

hmmm... strange... my clown stayed at my pink BTA until it died.. even after it died, it still hung around the anemone..

[cityofangels]

hmmm... strange... my clown stayed at my pink BTA until it died.. even after it died, it still hung around the anemone..

Your clown fish sure has insecurity issues..

[yellowfin tuna]

thanxss bros for all your advice and sharing of experiences....

my anemone is fine and growing bigger... eating very well ... feeding it with sliver fish and cubes of mysis shrimp,,,,

haha,,,, like the one clown with the insercurity issues.... but maybe clownie too sad to leave his fren,,, so hung on til it dies off...

[valerossi]

So next time u face any problem or any queries, u can post it here.

We will try to help u...

Just enjoy watching small 'SEA' at home

[cci[RR]us]

Last time when I overfed my anemone, it shrunk and shrunk... after I stopped feeding it, it began to come back to its previous glory. Then sadly, I had a nitrate bloom and it died soon after.

Sometimes it is better to underfeed than overfeed your anemone.

[slcw]

just note, excessive feeding will cause stress to anemones

[pop]

Sorry..borrow the thread to ask a few qns... I read the anemone FAQ.. it states that "anemones will deflate in order to flush wastes out of their system or to balance internal water chemistry......sometimes contains some body slime.."

Anybody can tell me what the colour of the body slime and waste? transparent?

[Mr CRABS]

Ya,it looks like mucus

[slcw]

brown in colour

[cci[RR]us]

Would you remove the stuff manually? Or would you let your skimmer do the job?

The brown stuff is pretty disgusting so I usually remove them whenever I see then oozing out of my anemone's mouth.

[pop]

Mm...another paragraph of the FAQ states that...."Stringy dark brown substance coming out of the anemore's sign is usually a bad sign....the anemone is expelling its zooxanthellae.."

Mine also shrink one time per one/two days...folllowed by the brown slime out of the mouth.. then will flow into the overflow and "disappear".. About an hour or two, it return to its usual self again...

Just wondering, how to differential them?