Help me please I think it's dying!

neilbabyy · 10-07-2009, 01:31 AM

Hello I am very new to this forum... but I have had my tank for a little over two years and this anemones for about a year... I used to feed it all the time, and it almost took up my whole tank (20gal) but I haven't been feeding it lately due to my store closing and I don't know where to get the food around me... and he has gotten really small! I dont know if it's dying or I still have hope... please help.

BLAKEJOHN · 10-07-2009, 02:36 AM

Try giving it some food and see if it is still sticky and will take the food. You can go to you local super market and get some frozen raw shrimp and cut it up into small enough pieces. Or even your local big chain petstore and get frozen silversides.

What are your water params? In a 20gl things can get out of wack pretty bad pretty fast.

lcstorc · 10-07-2009, 08:46 AM

Well, it doesn't look happy, but I have certainly seen worse looking nems pull out of it.
I would go back to feeding it and be sure to keep your water parameters perfect. That is really all you can do. If it was healthy before, it should come back.

nanoreefing4fun · 10-07-2009, 01:01 PM

to ReefSanctuary, a real Sanctuary of reef forums, with lots of very nice members

+1 to the above advise...

websurfer · 10-07-2009, 06:50 PM

If you get the shrimp from the store make sure to clean with RO water first ...

I would try to feed it and see how it reacts to it

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neilbabyy Tunicate Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1 View Gallery Karma Komment	Help me please I think it's dying! Hello I am very new to this forum... but I have had my tank for a little over two years and this anemones for about a year... I used to feed it all the time, and it almost took up my whole tank (20gal) but I haven't been feeding it lately due to my store closing and I don't know where to get the food around me... and he has gotten really small! I dont know if it's dying or I still have hope... please help.

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BLAKEJOHN Elegance coral Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: KINGSTON, I.L. Posts: 1,073 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Help me please I think it's dying! Try giving it some food and see if it is still sticky and will take the food. You can go to you local super market and get some frozen raw shrimp and cut it up into small enough pieces. Or even your local big chain petstore and get frozen silversides. What are your water params? In a 20gl things can get out of wack pretty bad pretty fast. __________________ 110 gallon acrylic 1 Yellow Tang, 1 Blue Tang, 2 Eng Gobies, 1 Six Line Wrasse, 1 Tomato Clown, 1 Lion fish RBTA, Longspine Urchin, Approx. 200 snails Red Monti, Purple Rim Monti, Leathers, Elegence, Yellow Polyps, various Zoa's, FrogSpawn, Ricordias, Greenbirdsnest, Pink Milli, Blue Milli, Bonzai, unknown Acropora's, Purple Digi, GSP, Bubble Coral, Staghorn, Slimer

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lcstorc Sunshine Reefer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cocoa Fl Posts: 26,437 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Help me please I think it's dying! Well, it doesn't look happy, but I have certainly seen worse looking nems pull out of it. I would go back to feeding it and be sure to keep your water parameters perfect. That is really all you can do. If it was healthy before, it should come back. __________________ Peace LYNN Lynn and Franks saltwater adventure Lynn's 20g clown tank Lynn's 90g of sunshine Lynn's frag tank experiment A reef tank is like a race car. The faster you go the harder you crash.

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