Anemone Not doing so good! need some advice!

You should read up more on the Seabae Anemone, it is by far the hardest anemone to keep alive beyond a few months... The whiter the anemone when you get it, the shorter the time it will look good in the tank....

There is much written about keeping the anemone and the very very poor survival rate seen by most hobbyist...

Knowing all of this, mine still would not make it past 4 months even with target feeding and extra lighting...After loosing 2 seabays, I purchase a carpet anemone...it has doubled in size and the clown loves it! much less work and though feeding 2x a day is "recommended" I feed only once a week with some bits of raw seafood...I suspect that the clown is helping it along...

 

phosphates is an important one here. What are they? Also i think you SG is a little low. Not badly like but not where i would keep it.

 

listing all of your equipment would help give us an idea if your lighting and filtration is sufficient. anemones need good water quality.

also just feeding the anemone is not enough, they need strong lighting which is how they obtain most their nutrition from a symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) that lives inside their tissues.

 

helpful. What is that reason?

 

What????

 

A fuge with some chateo. I've tested 0 nitrates for the last year or so. As long has you have a way to export the end results of the nitrogen cycle you can most deffinantly have zero nitrates.

 

+1

Definitely possible. Not always easy but possible.

 

I have a nem (LTA) in my 5 month old tank and it seems to be doing well.
2 times a week I target feed it some chopped seafood that is also my puffers food and I have a lot of light for it too (4T5s on a 20T tank).
It's foot is burried deep in a cave and it'll shrink up or expand depending on it's mood...it seems to shrink up more when it wants meat.
So it may just be in a mood or need some meat...or since we don't know about your lighting it could be that as well.

Also is it getting enough flow??? Mine is in an area of higher flow 30x in the tank but the nem is near the high flow path...I have a K2 pointed diagonally across the tank and the nem is near the corner it's aimed at.

I got the nem when the tank was only 1.5 months old or so...hadn't read about them (big No No..but so far so good)