Bubble Anenome problems

I reread my post, When I said "the best thing to do" I really meant "what I would suggest" sounds overly bold as to call my thoughts "the best thing" for I myself am new to all of this, check your post often, Lots of people here that know what they are doing.

 

Are you sure you have a Bubble Tipped Anemone? I used to have a Condylactus that behaved like yours -- shriveling up for 12 hours or more almost every day. I also had a Heteractis which never did that.
It may be species-specific behavior.

 

Anemone's are delicate and not very hardy to keep-especially for anyone who hasn't had experience with them. Also with less than 3 watts per gallon on your tank, my thoughts are, that it won't last very long. Water quality needs to be almost perfect and metal halides or atleast intense t5 or power compact lighting is adviseable with atleast 5watts per gallon.
If you want to have an anemone, you might want to try a flower or caribbean species(Condylactis) as they are alot less expensive and alittle more forgiving and easier to care for.
As for the happiness of anemone's, they will almost always move around in search of the perfect place for them to feel comfortable and not stressed out. Which leads to another common problem that many of us have faced in the past or will probably face in the future and that is anemone vs. powerhead or intake pipe or even corals which could be stung by anemone's. If an anemone gets stuck in a inake pipe from a powerhead the suction will cause a big mess and possibly the demise of your anemone if not other inhabitants as well.

 

This chapter is over... The Anemone died a week ago.
It was weird, one day so full and colorful...the next shrivled up.. then back to full and colorful...

Well, I came home and it was melted and falling apart. I think the problem was feeding. The clown wouldn't accept it and it would not eat no matter how or what I tried to do.

Just when I said I am going to change my focus and have a FOWLR my wife noticed a little baby bubble on my magnet. I didn't beleive her, but upon further inspection I found an anemone about 2 mm wide on the magnet, It moved to the side of the tank, and then to a rock... and so on and so on. It is identicle to the one that died. Is it possible it brought it in with it? How do these things reproduce??
I have noticed that there are "spots" on the inside of my tank.. could these be eggs?

I guess I will try this again, although I am reluctant. Part of me hopes it grows big and the Clown adopts it....part of me would not be disappointed if one of the crabe just ate it and get the whole thing over with. I am seriousdly starting to doubt I can keep this type of creature safely.

 

Sorry to hear about the death of your anemone

As for your small anemone, I'm hoping that it is not one of the pest anemones that are common in this hobby. Any chance you could take a post a picture of it?

Anemones reproduce several ways depending on the species. Some asexually by splitting, Others grow from pieces of pedal disc left behind when the anemone moves, and some are sexually reproduced from eggs and sperm. That being said, I doubt that the spots that you're seeing in your tank are anemone eggs but take and post pics of them too if you can

 

I'm hoping it's not a majano. ;D

 

As am I. I recently broke down my 90 gallon (and plan to start over with a 180) because of an enormous majano infestation!

 

What's the difference between majano and aptasia?

 

Take a look here:

Hitchhiker FAQ - Rock 1

Unfortunately, the processes used to eliminate aiptasia hardly, if ever, work on majanos. They're a lot more resilient than aiptasia and I have not found any animal in the hobby that will eat them and not also eat corals and/or clams.

 

Was definately Aiptasia.. I found one large one on the back side of a rock... and there were two little ones on my glass. I removed them without plucking them.. and ran the rock clinger under scalding hot water..
I'm sure I will now have an infestation of these... we'll see.