anemone HELP!!!

hey all hows it going,
i got a bubble anemone about a month ago and everything has been fine. but recently like in the past week or so the anemone has been acking weird. ( hiding in rock work, and closing up) also it rejects all food given ie. shrimp(fresh from Publics, brine) silversides...ect. i have it in a 12 gallon eclipse with a 96 watt retro fit kit. and i and weekly iodine(1w), calcium(1w), kent microvert (twice a week), iron(1w), buffer(1w), strolium(1w). the tank is stocked with 2 pink skunk clowns and 1 blue devil damsel. coral wise, blue-yellow zoanthus, sea mat, yellow star polyp, greeh starpolyp, trumpet coral, 2 different types of ricordrea (tri color and metalc green), and red mushrooms. ohhh and a coral banded shrimp. please help me!!!! thanks

 

hmmm...how old is the tank...also...maybe the anemone is ...well...digesting? or pooping they close up when they r doing their buisness but im not 100% sure that urs is that case...

 

What are your parameters?

 

my carpet anemones are dying. They look pale & are loosing color.

Help help

 

Could you be a little more specific, how old is your tank, what are your water parameters, what kind of lighting?

 

You know, my bubble anemone did the same thing before kicking the bucket. I didn't understand why it wanted to hide. I thought these guys loved light, obviously he wanted to be in the shade.

What I think is that I moved him too much and he well, sorta got scared. He eventually died.

 

a 100 gallon tank, salinity 1.025. calcium - 400, dKH - 6, 0 nitrates, Ph - 8.2
tank running for a year now.

 

oh yes........i have metal halides. A total of 450 watts & a 30 watt blue moon tube light.

 

Ok

Ok. I see you have posted some pretty impressive parameters. I think your alk. (dKH) is a bit on the high side but thats all I see. The only other things I can think of is, how long have you had these animals and what do you feed them? Sometimes people try to feed carpets too large of pieces. They will take smaller stuff like mysis, etc. Anyone else?
Keep us informed so we can all learn.

Good luck

 

I have 4 skunk cleaner shrimp in my tank with a bubble tip anemone. The skunk cleaners always try to steal food from the anemone when I feed. I keep them separate so I can feed the tank easier. Can the skunks little claws harm the anemone? I noticed in one of the posts someone had these skunks too. You might want to separate the anemone from the skunks and see if the anemone will eat. Mine loves mysis shrimp - he's getting pretty big!