CaptainK Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 About 2 weeks ago I got a green ultra long tentacle anemone. Since then, it has not moved at all but shrinks and keeps hidden during the day. At night it seems to expand. I noticed that as soon as my lights come on in the morning it quickly retracts its tentacles one by one. It's in a 20 gallon that has been running for 3 months. I am using 60w cree led lights. It is in low/moderate current in the sand bed. I do not directly feed it, but I do use brine, mysis shrimp and various coral foods. Anyone know if this is normal or why it may not be expanding to it's normal size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juiceman Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Give it time, took almost a month and a half for my RBTA to start expanding during the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I'm assuming your parameters check out ok and are stable. If you have adjustable LEDs you might try dimming them for a few days and monitor how it responds to lower light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 could still be acclimating to your tank. Sometimes anemones just can't recover from the stress of being collected, transported, and stored. No matter how good your tank is, some anemones just give out under the pressure. Hopefully yours won't, but just keep the environment stable. You may want to lay off some of the feedings as there are some theories that feeding an acclimating anemone can harm its acclimation process. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerrickH Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) My carpet nem did the same thing. I had to lower my photo period pretty heavily, then gradually stretch it out longer over a 3 week span. Thats seems like a lot of LED power for that tank too so it might be getting a sun tan? 24LED is supposedly the equal to a 250w MH, or so says Rapid. Edited February 10, 2012 by DerrickH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFrame Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I agree with DerrickH, sounds to me like too much light to me. Can you adjust your phot period to help it acclimate? If you try to target feed with a little mysis do the tentacles stick to the food or just let it pass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainK Posted February 12, 2012 Author Share Posted February 12, 2012 The 60 watt LED is closer to 250 watt HQI but I have it on about 80%. I'm going to reduce the lights from 12 hours to 10 and dim the intensity a little more and see if that helps. It's a 20 high and the LTA is in the bottom left corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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