Shrinking anenome

Hey Paul,

Usually a shrinking nem is a sign that it is consuming itself. I would start target feeding it. Small frozen mysis shrimp would be the best.

Good luck
Craig

 

Hey Paul, I have a carpet and it does some funny things i have had it for about a year now and one month it will be huge and wide open next couple weeks it will be all closed up and small and it keeps going back and forth, the long tenacle i have hides behind my rock wall and he does awesome and if i try moving him out infront of the wall he gets mad and works his way back to where he was, I wouldnt worry to much about him if all ur levels are right and if hes not running across your tank then i would just leave him be. I have had a couple that died and the way i know they wernt doing well is when i saw them running from one side to the other side of the tank

 

Paul, What color is your nem and what kind of lighting do you have?

 

Couldn't it be getting to much light too, I thought I read that when they shrunk up they were getting to much light or not enough one of the two. Might just be actlimating itself to your lighting. My nem changes often and right now is growing good. I would make sure to feed it regularly and just keep and eye out for it.

 

A Healthy Nem wont have this problem. They will close up around the food so the clowns cant get it.
Paul, What color is the nem and what lights are you running? Also what kind of nem are we talking about?

 

You can also make a feeding hat out of a 2l pop bottle.

Cut the bottom off, put it over the new without the clowns, drop food in the hole for a bit.

 

What kind of lights do you have? i would say it would be your lights.

 

i have 4 gbta(they all came from one) and i never spot feed. not saying you should do this but mine seem fine on what they get when i feed the tank.

 

I have had a Purple Tip Sabae for about three years. Is yours brown, Tan or white? How old were the bulbs when you changed them? And what brand bulb are you coming from and have now?

 

i had a sebae and it went from a perfectly happy,dinner plate sized anenome,to a fifty cent piece and dead overnight. i still don't know why this happened and i had had it for over a year.