inflating anemone

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im_a_tidyman

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Mar 15, 2007
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At my LFS i saw an anemone, after looking around (rufly) 20 minutes later i was going to buy it, but it seemed to have expanded, HUGE sort of inflating. looked twice the size. i asked the guy there if it was ok, he said its fine, but i know what these guys are like. so ive come to ask you guys first, will it die if i buy it? is inflating normal? They had just got it in a delivery, so it was new to thier tanks.
 

SHK_ATK

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Nov 4, 2006
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was the coral close by chance? then maybe after 20 min did it opean? this IS normal. Not to sure about expanding maybe just opeaning.
 

TRG07

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May 11, 2006
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It is normal. Mine does it all the time. No set schedule but it gets as large as 5 inches tall with it's tenticles our-reached which make it almost 10 inches total. Then there are times that it will deflate to almost the size of a ping-pong ball pulling it's tenticles inside. I thought it was sick too the first time I saw it but did some research and it's a sing of a healthy Anemone. I have a Condylactis gigantea (caribbean anemone) it has purple tips and the column is white. I feed it a dried Krill every other day. The only problem I have is that it moves from time to time.

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