Sebae question

[coraladdict]

I bought a Sebae two weeks ago ,the colour is light brown with purple tips.It feels firm and the tentacles are a little sticky.It hasn't been eating anything since and it hasn't attached itself .The Sebae is hosting two clowns btw.
What shoild I do or not do??
Thanks

[squiddly]

What have you been trying to feed it?

[coraladdict]

I tried small pieces of shrimp and small pieces of fish.

[squiddly]

I'd try soaking it in "entice" and place it in the anemone's mouth if the mouth looks right, i.e. not gaping or extended.

[coraladdict]

Sorry but I don't know what entice is.

[squiddly]

Entice is a product you can buy at your local fish store or online that enhances the taste of the food to make the animal want it more.

[petoonia]

Try a cube of thawed mysis shrimp in a turkey baster then start adding different foods silversides, krill, squid, or clams. I cut the pieces up so there small enough to go through the turkey baster. Then I squirt it out slowly right by its mouth.

You may want to give it some time to attach. How is your water flow, my sebae likes very little water flow on it. It will settle in it just takes awhile.

Good Luck!!!

[raoul]

Mine likes scallops best it seems. Sometimes it's a matter of finding the right food. We also began with a little bit of mysis shrimp from a turkey baster as suggested above.
Good luck!

[coraladdict]

I've included a pic of the Sebae in my photo gallery.
Please have a look and tell me what going on.As stated before I've had it for two weeks,it's not eating though I will try some of methods you suggested and it's not attached.It is hosting two black clowns.
Thanks

[Raibaru]

That pic doesn't look good. I swear I've seen it recently too. Did you try asking for input before?

The pic looks like the anemone is on its last leg. Is the lighting enough?

[coraladdict]

Were you looking at the Sebae pic?

[Raibaru]

yea. Sebaes should have fairly long tentacles. Yours are short and stubby. It is also still white and they should be more of a flesh or brown color.

[coraladdict]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8569116#post8569116 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Raibaru
yea. Sebaes should have fairly long tentacles. Yours are short and stubby. It is also still white and they should be more of a flesh or brown color.

I know that ,it's the reason I'm here asking questions why it isn't eating and attached.So now everbody can have a look and see what I can do to help it.

[squiddly]

Lots of people have said the same thing about white anemones being inherently bad. I don't understand this, since I've seen many in the wild that looked very healthy and were white. Similar to this one:
http://www.cyberdive.org/graphics/cyberdive/solomons/wessol/whitecappurptip.jpg

[Raibaru]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8569195#post8569195 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by coraladdict
I know that ,it's the reason I'm here asking questions why it isn't eating and attached.So now everbody can have a look and see what I can do to help it.

Right, that's why I asked what lighting you were using :/

[coraladdict]

So , ok they could be white but what about the fact that the tentacles are stubby and it's not eating and not attached?
BTW I have a Tek T5 8 lamp system.

[squiddly]

So what are your water parameters? You need to look at salinity, pH, alkalinity, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites and phosphates.

[coraladdict]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8569599#post8569599 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by squiddly
So what are your water parameters? You need to look at salinity, pH, alkalinity, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites and phosphates.

pH 8.2
sg 1.025
ca425
alk 9dkh
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
phosphate 0
temp 78
Those # have just been taken.

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8569240#post8569240 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by squiddly
Lots of people have said the same thing about white anemones being inherently bad. I don't understand this, since I've seen many in the wild that looked very healthy and were white. Similar to this one:
http://www.cyberdive.org/graphics/cyberdive/solomons/wessol/whitecappurptip.jpg


You can't truly call a white anemone healthy. I bought a white sebae for $30 about 2 plus months ago. It went from this:

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i263/cichlidfort/Tankshots002.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i263/cichlidfort/Tankshots018.jpg


http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i263/cichlidfort/Tankshots013.jpg


to this

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i263/cichlidfort/Tankshots050.jpg

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i263/cichlidfort/Tankshots062.jpg

This is a perfect examply of a Heteractis Malu recovering from a bleached state by having the zooxanthellae algae proliferate within the tissue of the anemone. Simply, a healthy anemone looks like the latter pictures.

[coraladdict]

Thanks for the pics , this is very informative.The problem with mine is it ain't eating anything and not attaching.I've read on another forum that it could take 2 months for it to adapt and one guy said that he had bought his Sebae attached to a rock.

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8570073#post8570073 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by coraladdict
Thanks for the pics , this is very informative.The problem with mine is it ain't eating anything and not attaching.I've read on another forum that it could take 2 months for it to adapt and one guy said that he had bought his Sebae attached to a rock.

I took at chance with mine when I bought it. I had to consider it but I don't see Sebaes very often. They become sold out too fast. I had to consider that it was badly bleached, not sticky, not eating and was deflated. I took the risk and that day it attached to the glass of my tank and everyday, he/she would move their foot more downward towards the bottom. The next day the sebae ate food only because I placed the food on the mouth. I used pieces of raw shrimp which all my anemones seem to love.

So my advice for you is put your sebae by the glass in front of the tank. This has worked twice for me in my past experience with my anemones. Once with my Blue Haddoni (aviatar) and with my Sebae. Some say that your anemone won't eat if its not attached but I have had a purple LTA not being attached and eat before.

The tricky part for sand dwelling anemones is getting them attached in the first place. Usually if you have the right lighting, water parameters and stability, all you need for your anemone to be set is it for it to attach. Once it has, it will be your fault if it dies from that point on.

[coraladdict]

I'll put it in the front next to the glass pane see what happens for there.
Thanks

[55semireef]

any luck?

[coraladdict]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8575040#post8575040 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
any luck?

The Sebae is still the same, nothing has changed,doesn't eat not attached.:confused:

[55semireef]

Just give it time.

[55semireef]

How high is your flow? Sometimes high flow can distrupt a settling anemone.

[coraladdict]

I'll keep you posted.
Thanks

[Outerbank]

If the anemone hasn't attached, you may want to pull him out of the tank and put the anemone in a bowl or bag of water with a shell or small piece of rubble. If healthy, the anemonee will attach to the rubble or shell within 30 minutes. You can then "plant" the anemone in the sand of your main tank.

Scott

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8581981#post8581981 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Outerbank
If the anemone hasn't attached, you may want to pull him out of the tank and put the anemone in a bowl or bag of water with a shell or small piece of rubble. If healthy, the anemonee will attach to the rubble or shell within 30 minutes. You can then "plant" the anemone in the sand of your main tank.

Scott

Good suggestion but it may unattach once placed back in the tank.

[coraladdict]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8575499#post8575499 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 55semireef
How high is your flow? Sometimes high flow can distrupt a settling anemone.

The flow had to be low otherwise it would of rolled arround.

[coraladdict]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8581981#post8581981 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Outerbank
If the anemone hasn't attached, you may want to pull him out of the tank and put the anemone in a bowl or bag of water with a shell or small piece of rubble. If healthy, the anemonee will attach to the rubble or shell within 30 minutes. You can then "plant" the anemone in the sand of your main tank.

Scott

I'll try it, at this point I have nothing to loose but if it doesn't does that mean it will die?

[55semireef]

No it won't die. It should be fine.

[coraladdict]

Check my gallery there's a pic after I placed it in a concave rock last night.It looks like it's attaching itself.It's the first pic on the left.

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8587074#post8587074 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by coraladdict
Check my gallery there's a pic after I placed it in a concave rock last night.It looks like it's attaching itself.It's the first pic on the left.
It needs to darken up and attach itself.

[coraladdict]

Well it changed place again,I thought it had attached for good but only stayed 4 days.Now he's just on the sand in a semi shaded place with hardly any current shriveled as before.The fact that it's still not eating worries me, every time I try feeding it the clowns just takes the food away.I'm asking myself if the fact that it's hosting two clowns, that they may be feeding on the clowns poop and such?

[coraladdict]

Here an update , check my gallery.
It's now eating and getting with a light tan.I think it shoild be doing fine.

[macperry]

coraladdict: Just read through your thread...and I could swear I was looking at the same Sebae I have been going through the same problems with! Take a look at the Anem abuse! thread, and let me know what you think.

[coraladdict]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8752069#post8752069 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by macperry
coraladdict: Just read through your thread...and I could swear I was looking at the same Sebae I have been going through the same problems with! Take a look at the Anem abuse! thread, and let me know what you think.

Take a look at the Anem abuse! thread, and let me know what you think. >> Can you give me the link?

[macperry]

Look on page 2 of this forum, about 3/4 of the way down.