Anemone issues

[Kruss7]

Hey guys,

I have a primarily acropora dominated tank, but I do have some zoas as well as some lps (torches, scolys, acans, acanthophyllia). The tank is a 35g cube. Lighting is a radion xr15 g5 blue and t5 hybrid. Tank is over a year and a half old.

My parameters
Phosphates 0.04ppm
Nitrate 2ppm
Alk 8.22 dkH
Calc 441
Mag 1552
Ph 8.2
Temp 78
Salinity 1.026

All my corals are happy, acros have great colour and polyp extension.

My parameters stay super stable.

The bubble tip anemone hosts 2 Ocellaris clownfish. The anemone was fine for months but it has looked like this for a few weeks now, however it has never moved.

I have been trying to feed it more to see if I can get it back to happy.

The only thing my tank struggles with is keeping nitrates up, but I have been keeping them fairly stable around 2 with more feeding.

Any opinions on what is wrong and what action I should take?

 

[Bucs20fan]

My best guess is the tentacles have rotted away due to bacterial infection. I highly doubt this is a water quality issue here. The most common antibiotic to use for nems is Ciprofloxacin. I would start there. This nem can still be saved but its going to take some serious work. You will need a hospital tank with appropriate lighting to sustain the anemone. Doesnt have to be high dollar reef lights, but enough so the nem can still make use of it. And dose the tank every day with cipro. I used a fluval 13.5 as a hospital tank, 1 pill of 500mg cipro a day. Then 95% water change and dose another for 10 days.


Edit: DO NOT FEED IT IN THIS STATE. Feeding is not necessary at all basically, but in a weakened state like this, the amount of energy it takes to digest the food can kill it faster.

 

[Kruss7]

My best guess is the tentacles have rotted away due to bacterial infection. I highly doubt this is a water quality issue here. The most common antibiotic to use for nems is Ciprofloxacin. I would start there. This nem can still be saved but its going to take some serious work. You will need a hospital tank with appropriate lighting to sustain the anemone. Doesnt have to be high dollar reef lights, but enough so the nem can still make use of it. And dose the tank every day with cipro. I used a fluval 13.5 as a hospital tank, 1 pill of 500mg cipro a day. Then 95% water change and dose another for 10 days.


Edit: DO NOT FEED IT IN THIS STATE. Feeding is not necessary at all basically, but in a weakened state like this, the amount of energy it takes to digest the food can kill it faster.

Thank you!