I've got a bubble tip anemone in my 29 gallon reef. Water quality is always pristine. My feather dusters are multiplying like crazy. I've gone from 4-5 to 50+ in just the past 6 months. I've got 192 watts PC lighting above the tank. I did have 70-80 lbs of live rock, but remove about 20 lbs the other day. The anemone did great for about the first month. Recently, it's started to dwindle. It's not bleaching, and it's still dark in color. The tentacles just aren't long anymore. It doesn't move around, so i think it likes it's spot. I do admit that I wasn't feeding meaty foods as much as I should. Perhaps once a week. I feed quite a bit of flake food along with some mysis and brine shrimp every now and then. The clowns LOVE the flake, and the goby likes a bit of both. The anemone gets COVERED in flake food. It's fun to watch him eat all of it. Lately though he doesn't seem to be eating as much. I know I should have fed him more meaty foods, so that's mistake number one. I'm not new to aquariums, fresh or reef, but I am new to anemones. I do have him in the aquarium with about 20-30 zoanthid polyps. They don't seem to be bothering each other, but it just dawned on me that they might be poisoning the anemone. Is that a possibility? I'm setting up a 10 gallon reef tonight for some zoanthids. Should I just move all the corals to that tank?
What can I do to bring my anemone back to his normal self?
What can I do to bring my anemone back to his normal self?