Anemone On The Run?
The Ritteri I have had for seven months has suddenly gone wandering. It isn’t much of a problem because it’s isolated (so far anyway!) by rock work on one side of my 120 gal tank. It has grown noticeably since I put it in the tank (from about 3 inches to about 4 inches across the oral disc), it is still very sticky, eats well, and the water conditions have been very stable (nitrates increased to 10 ppm for a couple weeks while my wife was feeding). It has plenty of light and current, plus two percula clowns. Everything else in the tank – fish, sps, lps, clams, and shrimp I have read a lot about anemones being slow to exhibit visible signs of stress and can often enter fatal spirals before we notice something is wrong. Is this sudden wandering a sign of trouble? Is there anything you can do to reduce it’s wandering?
