Anemone Not looking Good

[mrbee2828]

I'm hitting to forums looking for possible solutions to my RBTA's current "not so happy state". Some background, I purchased the RBTA about 2 years ago. It was small, well extended and never bubbled up much. At some point afterward I force hosted to young false percs with it over the course of a week or so. They've never left it since. This was all under radions in my 75g. For the next year it grew HUGE being fed twice a week. It had made it's home in a large cave on the right of my tank, reaching out for sun and folding up at night. The percs never let it's side. Last spring I upgraded to a 125g. The RBTA was bigger than my hand when opened, close to a vollyball in diameter with the body like a can of beans. It was placed in a holding tank with the fish for several days during the upgrade. I put it back into the new tank (this is 1 massive constructed rock tower) and sand after things settled down a few days later.

From this point on it was on the same rock, in the same spot of the tank, with the same flow, under the same light. The only difference was that the tank was longer now. It has hardly ever opened since, almost 7 months later. Now I don't doubt it was stressed with the move but I would assume a few months later it would have either died or gotten back to normal. So the only other thing that has happened since then is that my percs have paired and spawn regularly. So my thought process has been narrowed down to the clowns stressing it to death. Possible? It won't really take food from me anymore. It's hard to feed up under the rock and not extended. Thoughts?

 

[Trex]

What are your current water parameters --- with numbers please.

Are you using RO/DI water? If so, what is the TDS? If you don't, where do you get your water?

How did you do the upgrade? New rocks, transfer existing, etc?

How big is the anemone compared to the clowns? (( Personally never had issues with Ocellaris stressing an anemone, just maroons and clarkiis. ))

What other fish/inverts are in the tank?

What food are you trying to feed it?

 

[mrbee2828]

Sure thing, full build is here for a visual: https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/member-tanks/106605-benjmains-75g-garage-reef.html

I've been using RODI water from the start and Instant Ocean Reef Crystals and/or Red Sea for salt and it's always at 1.026. TDS is 0 with filter changes as needed. Temp is around 78°-80° however is does fluctuate sometimes because it's in the garage. Most recently we had our panel replaced which dropped the temp a bunch about a month ago. It's been unhappy since May though. ALK is at 11 and CAL around 425, MAG at 1300-1400. Outside of any temp fluctuations, my numbers are next to nothing on any given day with regular water changes.

In fact I purchased my skimmer for my upcoming build and I think the water is too clean for my zoas. SPS growth is great but softie growth is stagnate almost. The upgrade was a rip and replace. New rock was added 1 piece at a time over the next 4 months if any. I flood feed a mix of frozen foods and I was feeding the nem a silverside twice a week but it really won't hold them anymore. As for other fish, 3 tangs, naso, hippo and yellow. A bi-color blenny, diamond goby, 2 lyertails and 2 green chromis.

Good comparison but it's even worse now:

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

By not opening what do you mean? Also has it shrunk and if so by how much?

Love your tank BTW.

 

[mrbee2828]

It's shrunk even more than in the picture above shows. Both clowns have out grown it now and before it was huge and could hold both of them easily.

 

[mrbee2828]

In a strange twist of events, I came out this afternoon and I now have 2 anemones. There is still one in the original spot under the rock but I now have a decent sized nem on the top of the rock. I can see how it tore itself and it loos like it's healing up well. You just never know with this hobby. I don't talk about it for 6 months and now I have 2. Hopefully they both perk up.