I have an Emergeny!

[newreefer89]

Hello All,
I have been reading this forum along with many others recently as I am in the process of cycling my 10 gallon nano, my first salt water aquarium yet. I am starting with a FOWLR tank, and eventually plan to add inverts and coral that are compatible with such a small tank. I had a shrimp sunk in the bottom of my tank to provide the ammonia for the nitrogen cycle and I started stocking the tank with Live Rock to seed the base rock and 3 inch Aragonite substrate. My ammonia level started to register a few days ago and I am registering nitrites. Ammonia reads about 3-4 ppm and nitrite is reading approximately 0.8ppm. That is current, Ammonia spiked yesterday and I removed the shrimp because of the odor and started to feed the tank some sinking pellets. However today I noticed as I rotated a piece of live rock to gain a better view of the red feather dusters there is what appears to be a baby bubble tip anemone, he does not have much colour and is only about half a centimeter in diameter. I am wondering is there anythign I can do to save this poor little fellow in my tank, as my water parameters are abismal due to the mid cycle tank. Thanks in advance for your replies, Jonathon

 

[bjohanson1234]

It is most likely one of these three anenomes.
Apstatia a pest that should be removed with apstatia X
Majano a pest that should be removed with apstasia X
Ball anenome not a pest, but will only get a half inch in diameter and will come and go as your tank matures.

A picture will help usID it.

 

[newreefer89]

I searched some photos, it certainly does resemble the ball anemone, thanks a lot for your quick reply.

 

[Smitty]

Bj has you covered. Hello and welcome to the site.