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Fishaholic
I have just gotten a rose anemone a few weeks ago. (I got it on Aprill 19). It has not shown any dead spots, and it appears healthy on the outside. It is eating once a week, like I was recommended. Everything about it seems normal
However, now it has started to shrink up in the mornings, each morning. When I say shrink, I don't mean slightly; it is on the back glass, and it shrinks so that everything is forced down to be inside the "bowl" of the foot. It appears that it has expelled all the water. In the afternoon it reinflates and appears fine.
I know that anemones will normally do this, but how often? This is the 3rd morning that it has done this. Is it ok?
tank stats
0.25 ammonia (just a trace, that has yet to go away after the 1+ years the tank has been up)
0 nitrites
0 nitrates
1.022 salinity
58 gallons
There are no other creatures in the tank except for a small xenia (not near the anemone), a common cleaner shrimp, and a small emerald mithrax crab. There are also several snails, but they haven't gone near the anemone.
What's going on?
However, now it has started to shrink up in the mornings, each morning. When I say shrink, I don't mean slightly; it is on the back glass, and it shrinks so that everything is forced down to be inside the "bowl" of the foot. It appears that it has expelled all the water. In the afternoon it reinflates and appears fine.
I know that anemones will normally do this, but how often? This is the 3rd morning that it has done this. Is it ok?
tank stats
0.25 ammonia (just a trace, that has yet to go away after the 1+ years the tank has been up)
0 nitrites
0 nitrates
1.022 salinity
58 gallons
There are no other creatures in the tank except for a small xenia (not near the anemone), a common cleaner shrimp, and a small emerald mithrax crab. There are also several snails, but they haven't gone near the anemone.
What's going on?