Haddoni foot not buried in sand

[DJ_PAPA]

Hi, I have new (3 days) haddoni anemone.
What do you think of it? The foot isn't completely buried in the sand. Anyway it doesn't look damaged.
Also what is your opinion?
Once a day it also shrink and inflate, maybe to adapt to the new aquarium.
I have this pictures:

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/4404/dsc06249tn.jpg
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/6892/dsc06248tn.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2214/dsc06244tn.jpg
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1493/dsc06242tn.jpg
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3720/dsc06241tn.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/346/dsc06240tn.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7425/dsc06239tn.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKoNWpJYrjY

Opinions?

[COreefer]

I would get the clowns out and give the anemone sometime to settle in. As for it not anchoring itself...I don't know why it is not. I have had haddonis that immediately anchor themselves and others that never anchor. I would try digging a depression in the sand and situating the anemone in that area. Maybe someone else can give their .02 as tho why some never seem to anchor.

[Toddrtrex]

All of mine that were fully healthy dug into the sandbed/attached within minutes of being in the tank.

The foot looks fine from those shots. How has the mouth been?

What lights do you have? Are you acclimating it to your lights?

Just to make sure everything is covered....what are your water parameters, with numbers.

[DJ_PAPA]

Thanks for reply.
The water parameteres are:
No2, No3, NH4 = 0
Kh= 9
Mg=1000
Ca=460

I have 450L tank and 8X 54W T5.
I digged a depression in the sand and it looks that the haddoni is attached there now.
I didn't aclimate to lights...

[OrionN]

Those Saddle-backs can be rough on a new anemone. If you can keep them away for a while until the anemone settle. If you see that they abusing the anemone, diving into the mouth and take chunks out of the inner of the anemone, you got to remove them or put them into time out.
The anemone looks OK, just leave him be, maybe put a small rock over the column of the anemone. I find that this help anemone attach and start to digs in. I got lots of flow in my tank so it is a way to keep them where I want them.

[Pinkskunk]

like everyone here said already, REMOVE THOSE CLOWNS until the carpet settled in, i'd say 1 month.

i usually wake up early when it's still totally dark when the clowns are sleeping, i can remove them even w/o the nets.

[DJ_PAPA]

The anemone sometimes also shrink and inflate.
Is it normal?

And I have also another question.
Those clowns are Amphiprion sebae or Amphiprion clarki or Amphiprion polymnus?

Thanks for the reply!

[Pinkskunk]

Amphiprion polymnus

they are VERY rough on anemone.

[COreefer]

The shrinking and deflating is stress related and is not normal. How much does it deflate?

[DJ_PAPA]

Full size:
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/1493/dsc06242tn.jpg

Deflate:
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/2644/dsc06261tn.jpg

The haddoni does this 1x per day. It deflate so much that the mouth looks like that but it's not spiting it's inside out, I think that the mouth appears like because because of the deflation.
The color stay's ok, and after a while being like that it starts to get bigger and the mouth stay normal. Maybe it's acclimating to lights?
Should I feed it?
I think that is better now let it alone for a week?

You can also see that I changed it from place. Now i think it's better on that place.

[COreefer]

It's just unhealthy...nothing you can really do. Once they start doing that. Not good...

[Toddrtrex]

Like "COreefer" said, that isn't good. I wouldn't give up hope, but any time I have had a new Haddoni do that it didn't make it.

[COreefer]

What issues cause a haddoni to climb its way out of the sand and onto a rock? Is it a flow issue, lighting, etc??

[Toddrtrex]

What issues cause a haddoni to climb its way out of the sand and onto a rock? Is it a flow issue, lighting, etc??

Would think more light (( not enough )) then flow. But, for sure something is ticking it off. Mine have moved along the sandbed or retracted if there was too much flow.

One other thing that comes to mind, if the clowns are bugging it. The only time one of my Haddonis moved onto the rocks was when my Clarkii pair was digging out the sand from around it.