anemone ???

[Melonbob]

hope you find him, cause if he croaks and you don't know where he is, he's gonna wipe out the rest of the tank.......

[Bifferwine]

An anemone in a new tank is a bad choice. They are toxic animals and almost always die in new tanks (tanks that have been set up for less than a year). And when they die, like Melonbob said, they usually end up killing everything else in your tank. If I were you, I would try to find him, then take him back to the store.

Anemones are more light demanding than most corals, and require much higher water quality than a lot of corals. Anemones will usually only thrive in mature, established tanks with pristine water quality and very very high lighting. They are much more difficult to keep than corals.

And no, the hermits would not have eaten it.

[sicklids]

i removed all the rock, skimmed through the sand with my daughters toy rake and still found no anemone! i inspected every rock thoroughly, every hole and crevice and still no anemone! i dont know what happened to it! what does eat anemones? maybe i got simething in there i dont know about that got it cause there is no evidence that there was one even in the tank at this point. oh, and i know it didnt "escape" either.

[michelle]

I had a nice green carpet anemone for about 4 months, it did great, accepted shrimp once a week and looked awsome. Then it started moving when I added new lights-then I traded him to the lfs...he killed 4 of my fish.
My clowns flirted with hosting to my frogspawn, and bubble coral, even my maze brain. Finally settled into my open brain quite contently. Never even gave my carpet nem a second look...

[Bifferwine]

Nothing would have eaten it. Did you check all your intakes? They can get sucked into filters really easily. If it died, it could have rotted very quickly, especially if it was small.

[yote]

When anemones die,They dissolve pretty quick.

[sicklids]

thats the only thing i can figure. when i took out all the rock i changed out the filter cartridges and such in my filter but no anemone. it must have dissolved, but everyone in the tank is fine including my queen conch and hermits. i dont know, maybe hes sucked off deep in a rock and i couldnt see him, but its day 2 and no sign.

[daugherty]

start testing your water

[OurFishies]

Originally Posted by sicklids

is there any truth to that article at all? im mean could i keep a froog spawn in my thank with just 50/50's?

We have frogspawn in a lower light tank and it is thriving. We didn't have enough light to keep an anemone happy though (although we did make an attempt!)