Ever Receive An Order Of Fish That You... Didn't Order?

[Cheesecake]

The stuff that I got by accident? Wednesday.

The anemones.

 

[Cheesecake]

The stuff that I got by accident? Wednesday.

Has anyone else noticed Fishlore running slow?

 

[PoorBigBlue]

I've only had the anemone since Wednesday too. I've had small ones before (hitchhikers and RFAs), but never a bigger one like this.

Yes! I thought it was just me - Fishlore has been absolutely dragging along.

 

[PoorBigBlue]

The shrimp escaped! I heard a little plop this afternoon, and the little guy was scurrying around the sandbed. I'll be watching him closely until tomorrow when I can see to fish him out.

The anemone is improving! It's becoming much more sticky. It now picks up sand and small rocks and shells as it rolls around the sandbed. Plus, as I was feeding the fish today, I noticed that the anemone's mouth was slightly open - not gaping, but just a bit open, and I've read that means that the anemone is hungry - so I dropped a mysid shrimp onto one of it's tentacles. It stuck, even in the current! Not sure if it ever actually ate it, but the shrimp is no longer stuck to the tentacles. If I can get it to eat, I'll feel a bit better about this guy's chances - it's continuing to expel zooxanthellae.

 

[Cheesecake]

The shrimp escaped! I heard a little plop this afternoon, and the little guy was scurrying around the sandbed. I'll be watching him closely until tomorrow when I can see to fish him out.

The anemone is improving! It's becoming much more sticky. It now picks up sand and small rocks and shells as it rolls around the sandbed. Plus, as I was feeding the fish today, I noticed that the anemone's mouth was slightly open - not gaping, but just a bit open, and I've read that means that the anemone is hungry - so I dropped a mysid shrimp onto one of it's tentacles. It stuck, even in the current! Not sure if it ever actually ate it, but the shrimp is no longer stuck to the tentacles. If I can get it to eat, I'll feel a bit better about this guy's chances - it's continuing to expel zooxanthellae.

This thread is reminding me of how cool anemones are. Most crustaceans are escape artists. I have a brackish ten-gallon with some fiddler crabs in it. One day as I was going upstairs, I noticed one of them just sitting on the stairs! He had crawled almost 50 feet away from his tank, over piles of clothes and under a door.

 

[PoorBigBlue]

Wow, I can't believe I forgot about this thread! Anemones are definitely cool. I think we sometimes forget that just because something doesn't have eyes, ears, arms, and a brain doesn't mean it's not a living animal.

Fiddler crabs are fun! I kept a few a while back - I had some fun with them. Don't think I'd keep them again, but they're interesting to watch.

So, after replacing the light on the tank, a 50% water change, and changing the media out in my HOB, the anemone seems to have settled in. It's hard to tell if he's gonna stay there permanently, but I hope he stays there long enough to recover. He's facing the back of the tank (of course...), but he's in a well-lit area with moderate flow. We'll see how it does.

 

[PoorBigBlue]

Little guy was looking pretty nice last night (compared to what he's been like). He's still attached in that same spot as of this morning.

 

[PoorBigBlue]

So, I decided that the firefish is ready for the tank this morning. He's been in QT with theurapeutic levels of copper, prazipro, and metroplex for 10 days, and I've yet to see any signs of disease or parasites. If there was ich or velvet, I believe I would have seen it already - probably would have seen symptoms in the first few days due to stress from being the bag for 48 hours.



Forgive my algae!