Anemone Dead/Dying?

[jackalexander]

So I got this RBTA over a week ago and it was doing great until a few days ago and it just started to shrivel up.. is there any hope in saving it or will it just demolish my tank?

 

[Born2beblack]

How long has it looked like that?
Could be pooping or just being a nem
They are divas or we are for falling for the bs
Keep us posted
Has it moved location since it found one?

 

[JosephM]

Im not very experienced but I do have a similar experience with my condy anenome. It would deflate and go into itself for no reason. Sometimes because of light or because it wasn’t happy with where it was placed. It normally came back out within a few hours.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

I wouldn't give up hope yet but that gaping mouth is a very bad sign. How old is this tank and what are your parameters? What do you have for lighting?

 

[HD_Reefer]

I wouldn't give up hope yet but that gaping mouth is a very bad sign. How old is this tank and what are your parameters? What do you have for lighting?

Agreed. That bad of shape after a week, I'd guess there's damage to the foot from the previous owner or LFS. Is the shrimp picking at it? Has it moved since you put it in? Did you drip acclimate?

 

[jackalexander]

How long has it looked like that?
Could be pooping or just being a nem
They are divas or we are for falling for the crap
Keep us posted
Has it moved location since it found one?

It was probably like that for the last couple hours but he’s back to normal. You are definitely right about them being divas because it keeps making me stressed out lol. False alarm I guess, thanks for the quick answer!

 

[jackalexander]

Im not very experienced but I do have a similar experience with my condy anenome. It would deflate and go into itself for no reason. Sometimes because of light or because it wasn’t happy with where it was placed. It normally came back out within a few hours.

Yeah it just went back to normal. super weird!!

 

[jackalexander]

I wouldn't give up hope yet but that gaping mouth is a very bad sign. How old is this tank and what are your parameters? What do you have for lighting?

The tank is about 7 months old now and my perams are
Salinity: 1.024
Temp: 78F
Alk: 9
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2 ppm
I just have the stock biocube lighting

 

[jackalexander]

Agreed. That bad of shape after a week, I'd guess there's damage to the foot from the previous owner or LFS. Is the shrimp picking at it? Has it moved since you put it in? Did you drip acclimate?

The foot is pretty secure, the shrimp hasn’t investigated it yet and I had placed it in but it moved to the spot it liked the most. I temp acclimated for 30 minutes and acclimated for an hour.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

The tank is about 7 months old now and my perams are
Salinity: 1.024
Temp: 78F
Alk: 9
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2 ppm
I just have the stock biocube lighting

What is the stock biocube lighting? Cfl? Led?

 

[xxkenny90xx]

The foot is pretty secure, the shrimp hasn’t investigated it yet and I had placed it in but it moved to the spot it liked the most. I temp acclimated for 30 minutes and acclimated for an hour.

That's good that the foot is attached. Keep a close eye on it and remove if it turns to goo. Do you have other corals or nems?

 

[jackalexander]

What is the stock biocube lighting? Cfl? Led?

LED

 

[jackalexander]

That's good that the foot is attached. Keep a close eye on it and remove if it turns to goo. Do you have other corals or nems?

I currently have frogspawn, bi-color hammers, purple hammers, fuzzy mushroom, clove polyps, pulsing xenia, yellow birds nest and a pink acro

 

[reefz]

What light do you use? Under lighting, or not a correct spectrum can cause this. I would place the nem into a strainer at the top of the tank so it can get more intense light. Also parameters like high nitrates and phosphates will cause nems to get stressed. Good luck