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09-22-2005

Posted by Dale 777 on September 22, 2005, 3:35 pm

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We have a green bubble anemone that has been thriving for about 9
months. Unfortunately, it somehow got a big part of itself sucked
through the grill protecting one of the powerhead intakes used for
circulation. All of the tentacles down one side were ripped away.

This happened about 3 days ago. Since then, it has curled itself around
the injury and seemed to be just getting on with life, with the
remaining tentacles behaving normally, grabbing food at feeding time,
etc. Mouth also opened at feeding time as usual to receive the food.

Today, it looks very limp. The two clowns that are its companions are
acting confused and a little stressed. Also, the mouth did not open
fully at feeding time, even though the tentacles still seemed to grab
the food.

Is this the beginning of the end or is there any chance of recovery? Is
there anything we can do to help with the healing process?

Any advice gratefully received.

Cheers
Dale

Posted by Pszemol on September 22, 2005, 4:15 pm

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It seems to me like you feed it too often... Maybe it is not hungry ?
I feed mine once a week or even less often...

Posted by Dale 777 on September 23, 2005, 1:34 am

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Feeding has been finely tuned over a 9 month period to produce an
extremely healthy animal. Won't bore you with the detail as that was
not the point of my post. As an aside, though, your anemone will get a
filter feed snack every time you intoduce food into the system anyway.

Posted by Pszemol on September 23, 2005, 8:23 am

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> Feeding has been finely tuned over a 9 month period to produce an
> extremely healthy animal. Won't bore you with the detail as that was
> not the point of my post. As an aside, though, your anemone will get a
> filter feed snack every time you intoduce food into the system anyway.

But now, when it is injured, this "fine tuned" schedule might
be different from what it needs or is capable of digesting.
When I am sick I loose my appetite for food as well ;-)

Posted by Dale 777 on September 23, 2005, 4:47 pm

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Pszemol wrote:

> > Feeding has been finely tuned over a 9 month period to produce an
> > extremely healthy animal. Won't bore you with the detail as that was
> > not the point of my post. As an aside, though, your anemone will get a
> > filter feed snack every time you intoduce food into the system anyway.

>
> But now, when it is injured, this "fine tuned" schedule might
> be different from what it needs or is capable of digesting.
> When I am sick I loose my appetite for food as well ;-)

Very good point :-)

It looks a little better today so fingers crossed ...

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