bubble tip splitting??

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  1. deverrss

    deverrss Astrea Snail

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    i bought a green bubble tip anemone maybe a month ago. after a week or two its tentacles havent been bubble tip but just long. its still completely stuck to the rock in the back but it moves to the left, right, up or threw a whole in the middle of my rock. sometimes it will close up and come out an hour later, which has happend 2 or 3 times. for the past two days its been spitting its food back up. right now its upside down and wide open. my clownfish swim through it still and im wondering if its splitting or just sick. i cant really tell but it looks like it has two feet now or one is forming?? idk.
    is it sick and i should take it out or is it just splitting and i should leave it alone?
    thanks
     
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  3. deverrss

    deverrss Astrea Snail

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    now that i look at it again it looks like it twisted itself around
     
  4. phoenixhieghts

    phoenixhieghts Panda Puffer

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    It sounds really unhappy. What type of lighting do you have and how old is your tank?
     
  5. deverrss

    deverrss Astrea Snail

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    2 compact fluorescent lights one white and one blue and moon lights. tank is going to be 4 months old in a couple weeks.
     
  6. tigermike74

    tigermike74 Panda Puffer

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    It doesn't sound like it's splitting. When they split, they will attach themselves to two rocks and pull themselves apart. If it's spitting up the food, it means it doesn't like the food you are giving it. They are no different than us. If there is something we put in our mouths that don't appeal to our taste buds, we spit it out too. Some nems like silversides, some like krill, some like squid, some like it all. They are as individual as we are. Try different foods. The next thing you need to do is to upgrade your lighting to either very strong T5 or metal halide. If you don't, you will need to take it back to your LFS, or it will end up dying. Given that, 4 months is way too early for an anemone, they need mature tanks to survive. New tanks less than a year old have too many fluctuations in water quality to sustain them.
     
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    Not nearly enough light and way too young of a tank. I would get it out. If it doesn't go this time, it most likely will in the near future.
     
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  9. deverrss

    deverrss Astrea Snail

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    okay thanks. i'll talk to my dad about it. he keeps saying he looks perfectly fine when its obvious its not. can i start putting more coral in?? i have one piece of coral that i got free but i've been afraid of putting more in b.c of how the anemone is acting.
     
  10. tigermike74

    tigermike74 Panda Puffer

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    If you want to take it out, do not rip it off the rock, you will definitely kill it that way.
    I would wait a bit longer on corals until you upgrade the lighting. CF lighting is really the bare minimum in aquariums, suitable for fish only tanks, unless you have shallow tanks less than 18" deep.
     
  11. deverrss

    deverrss Astrea Snail

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    ok so how can i get it off the rock without killing it??
    uhm my tank is 19 gallons so is CF lighting fine for corals or what kind of lighting should i get??