Zakary2003
Active Member
My black widow bubble tip anemone is acting very strange. It has pulled into a rock cave almost entirely and the tentacles are shriveled up, but the foot has ballooned up and significantly widened. It looks very stretched. I normally can't see the foot at all because of how it is anchored, but the foot is larger than the oral disc right now. Do you think it is splitting? Or is this normal behavior? Should I be concerned? I feed it quite a bit, and so do the clowns. I know the pics of the anemone now are horrible, but I do have a normal picture from a few weeks ago versus a picture of his spot now.
As for parameters, I don't have any accurate ones because my LFS is closed due to the owners getting married. My API kit says 0 Nitrites and ammonia, 8.1 pH, 10ish nitrates, 380 calcium, 8dkh alk. Temp is 77. Salinity is 35ppt. I don't have any phosphate measurments but it was high last I checked, around .2 ppm. Magnesium hasn't been checked since December but was 1352 then.
The only major change between my last result and my API result is nitrates. They were high, around 40, but now they are reading pretty low. I started using a resin that claims to remove nutrients so that could be it, but I also reduced feedings and increased water changes from 2 to 3 gallons a week (the tank is a 20 gal). Could I have dropped nitrates too fast?
First pic is from December. The anemone has grown significantly since then but I haven't gotten any whole tank pictures. Second picture is now, and the anemone isn't really visible. The other pictures are crappy, but they are of the foot from different angles. The tentacles are at an angle where I can't get a picture, but they are still out, just shriveled.
As for parameters, I don't have any accurate ones because my LFS is closed due to the owners getting married. My API kit says 0 Nitrites and ammonia, 8.1 pH, 10ish nitrates, 380 calcium, 8dkh alk. Temp is 77. Salinity is 35ppt. I don't have any phosphate measurments but it was high last I checked, around .2 ppm. Magnesium hasn't been checked since December but was 1352 then.
The only major change between my last result and my API result is nitrates. They were high, around 40, but now they are reading pretty low. I started using a resin that claims to remove nutrients so that could be it, but I also reduced feedings and increased water changes from 2 to 3 gallons a week (the tank is a 20 gal). Could I have dropped nitrates too fast?
First pic is from December. The anemone has grown significantly since then but I haven't gotten any whole tank pictures. Second picture is now, and the anemone isn't really visible. The other pictures are crappy, but they are of the foot from different angles. The tentacles are at an angle where I can't get a picture, but they are still out, just shriveled.
