Sebae Placement

[T4Stock]

I have received conflicting info about Sebae placement. SOme have advised I place it high on rocks near lights and current, others have suggested soft-sediment placement.

Any suggestions?

 

[JennM]

Matters not where you place it, it will move around til it finds its own "happy place". I'd place it on the substrate where it's not going to get blown away by the current, and let it do its thing. Please make sure that ALL your intakes for powerheads and other filtration devices are covered with foam prefilters. There's nothing like the heartbreak of anemone puree.

Jenn

 

[T4Stock]

Thaks for the input.... i did manage to poition it in the rocks... for now.... so we'll see if it decides to move.... i tried to hand feed it some squid, but it didn;t seem to want it.... any suggestions?

 

[chris_h]

Try feeding it chopped up fish.

 

[EmilyB]

My sebae arrived pure white. It was reclusive, and did not accept food for a couple weeks. Try tiny bits of different things, fish, shrimp, etc. Mine seems to definitely prefer the sand.

 

[T4Stock]

I assume it will find its own comfortable spot. My only real concern is that it looks like it's turning inside out, although everything else (e.g. color) seems fine. Or is this just my inexperience showing?

 

[JennM]

Hey, MedicineMan...I put quotation marks around my expression "happy place"

But hey...my reef inhabitants are people too

aren't yours?

Perhaps a state of "happy" is easier achieved sans brain...but before I go off on a philosophical tangent....

Turning the insides out is NOT a good sign. Try to let it be, and if it's not eating yet, don't worry too much if you have good lighting. Sometimes we worry TOO much about its well-being and interfere too much with its settling on its on. Keep a close eye though, if the innards don't turn back inward watch for it to decompose....IF that starts, scoop it out with something. Don't try to pick it up, or net it, because you will have anemone guts everywhere and that's NOT cool. Watch your parameters too.

One thing I've found as anemones acclimate, they will expel most of their water and take in their new water. I expect that is so that their own body chemistry, as it were, is in tune with their surrounding.

HTH...

Jenn

 

[jeffj]

I've been two sebae anemones, one for 2 and one for 3 years. I built locations in each tanks specifically for them, subsequently, neither have moved. I built a concave in the liverock and "small" crevice between two chunks of live rock at the sand bed level. Now the anemones have grown so large that their foot extends through 4-5" sandbed to the glass tank bottom. Initially however, the small crevice between the rocks and sandbed was enough for the anemone to get established while the concave in the rock structure shielded the bulk of the anemone from direct flow while allowing nice water flow across the top.

 

[jamesw]

The picture above shows pretty much the ideal location for an H. crispa/H. malu. This is where I have seen them in other tanks, and while diving.

Remember, anemones don't just need a good substrate to be happy. They need appropriate water motion, good lighting, and the right foods. If could be that your anemone hasn't settled because teh water motion or lighting is wrong.

HTH
James

 

[MedicineMan1]

I have a bubble tip that started failing after two years and two splits. Currently I'm feeding it the last little bit of Prime Reef or Brine Shrimp Plus that I feed the fish. It's finally starting to look like it might actually make it!
Placement doesn't really matter; as was so adequately said, they will find a place where they're "happy", although I don't know why we ascribe human emotions to an animal that doesn't have a brain...

 

[Dragonlady]

T4,
Try to place the sebae anemone on the sand near a rock near indirect current and in a strongly lit area, but near a live rock cave. If it wants to be on a rock, it will move itself there. Unfortunately, anemones often turn themselves inside out exposing their mesentary(inner body cavity) before they are about to die. I hope that your anemone's conditions improve.