Question about my anemone, and I need an ID

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mike0082

As of this morning my anemone has retreats completely into the rock that it took hold to... Not sure if that's normal behavior. I can barely see it at all.

Secondly, what is this?
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Star fish ... it is a good guy.. they will multiply ... But do no harm..
some people hate them some love em ...
Just make sure you don't get the tiny brown ones that look like they have dark brown dots...


The Nem question... well i guess the first questions would have to be to look at water quality , how long the Nem has been in tank, lights... The type of nem....
 
Asterina starfish. The white ones are harmless, but can multiply very quickly and become overpopulated. The dark gray or green ones in my experience will feast on zoanthids.
 
1.024 salinity, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, .5 nitrates, 0 phosphates, water temp is 78...

its a bubble tip anemone, its been in the tank about 10 days. I have both a true lumen 50/50 led and t5 white / blue lights, as well as lunar led's

I just don't want him to die in that rock, because then I have to remove the entire rock and replace it. He hasn't taken any food I've tried to give him....but some have told me they eat right out of the water column (plus being photosynthetic)
 
Got me ... I know when I put mine in I had to slowly add the light

I know they don't like to much water flow ... People often use power heads to get them to move ..
 
its shriveled up a bit before, but never to this degree...

its been in my tank around 10 days.

90 gallon tank, there are clowns, but they are not trying to host it. When its opened, its about 6 inches across...right now its shriveled up into a quarter sized hole in a rock.
 
I am running them both - in the early AM, the super blues come on....then the LED and purple/coral plus kicks in around 9am.

Tank has been up and running 4 months or so. I did some research prior to buying them nem, and it seems that with the right parameters, it should have been fine. I am fairly new to the hobby, so I am full of questions and concerns lol
 
@mike0082 wrote:
I am running them both - in the early AM said:
I moved my rbta to my newer tank 3 weeks ago and at first it didn't like it much, it took almost 10 days for it to come out of the bottom of the rock

you can grab some mysis shrimp and a turkey blaster and try feeding it like that it will eventually grab a hold of some food
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