Sea Anemone help!!

cluzetsky

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Hi everyone, I’m 5 days into the salt water tank adventure! Yesterday around 9pm my filter started overflowing because the side arm wasn’t pushed all the way down properly. Roughly 40% of the water escaped from my tank. I filled it back up, included water conditioner also. I moved the anemone closer to the rock and the “No fishing” sign so that it could attach. My salinity level is 1.028 this morning at 8am. My anemone practically closed, you can see in the picture below. The first one is what the sea anemone looked like at 12pm yesterday, 9 hours before everything happened. The second picture is this morning at 8am.

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You can drop your salinity quickly without issues, it’s when it raises fast that stresses things out. I would lower it to 1.026 and just give the nem some time to open back up. They will close due to stress, I wouldn’t be too worried until it hasn’t opened for a few days.
 

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Agree with the above. 5 days is way to quick for most people to have the tank up and running with livestock. Anemones are sensitive and usually are not recommended to be added to a tank until at least the 6 month mark. This gives the tank time for bacteria to grow and the tank to stabilize. Likely that the anemone will not make it unfortunately.
 

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immediately you have salinity level of 1.028 is on the higher side. Ideally, you want it to be around 1.025 for most marine life, including anemones. To lower it, you can remove some saltwater from the tank and replace it with fresh, dechlorinated water. Do this slowly to avoid shocking the tank inhabitants.
 

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Honestly you should not have any life in the tank at only 5 days after filling it with water, and honestly and straightforward, you will be lucky if anything lives. I usually wait 3-4 weeks before adding anything a new tank.

From the little picture I see this tank is not built like a reef tank, so you did not try to replicate its normal environment.

Sorry if I sound critical but this is a complex hobby that requires lots of research for success or else its not fair to anything you put in the tank.

 

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Do some research online and on YouTube, im guessing a guy at petco or something similar said; “oh yeah this is fine for an anemone and clownfish”. You can definitely do this though,
 

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