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    Angry anemones problems

    i have a small bulb tip anemone. Ive had it for a bout a week or so now. Its been doing great but a couple of days ago it went behind the rocks and was all closed up. Now it moved again, still behind the rocks but it bigger than before. Anyone have any ideas. i dont want to lose it!

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    dont let it go out of the light, itl die, growing and shrinking is natural, but dont let it move behind the rocks.

    You should probably think about teathering it like a dog.

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    No need to worry if it moved behind the rocks as it will move back when it is ready. What I am trying to say is that in nature this particular species prefer to hide their foot in/behind/between rocks and have only its oral disk in the open where it can actively try and catch any food items that flowing in the current. That may be small fish or zooplankton, or shrimp...
    Have you try feeding it and did it accept your offerings?
    What type of set up do you have?
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    ive had anemones and heard of other people with anemones that move into the dark and die. there just to slow, or if they get stuck, theyl die after a week. I would at least keep an eye on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexfevery View Post
    ive had anemones and heard of other people with anemones that move into the dark and die. there just to slow, or if they get stuck, theyl die after a week. I would at least keep an eye on it.
    Believe me, alexevery, I had no intention of saying that one should not be aware of where the animals in aquarium are. I just pointed out that there is no need to loose sleep if anemone moved behind the rocks for a while. I have many, many of them in my anemone tank and some are behind the rocks and some are under the rocks for days at times. Some go through asexual reproduction and some just pooping out what they ate few days ago.

    Here's a picture of my tank, and I hope you can see that some of the anemones are behind other anemones and hardly get any light, so they move. First behind the rocks and then they literally on top of one another.



    I would be more concern if the animal refused to accept food and wouldn't attach to substrate(any substrate).
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    holy crap how many are in there?

    im sure it also depends on what kind of anemones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexfevery View Post
    holy crap how many are in there?

    im sure it also depends on what kind of anemones.
    It is the same anemones in my tank as the anemone in question in this thread, Entacmaea quadricolor.
    As far as how many, friend of mine counted about 50 the other day as he was removing a few but I'm sure he missed few here and there. Some of which were probably behind the rocks. It doesn't look it but there is nearly 300lb of rock in there.
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