Anemone not looking good!!!

Ubans13 · Jul 18, 2016

So I have had this anemone since june 26. It has been open eating shrimp. Came home today and its mouth is open and is partially closed.

Water salinity 1.026
kH 10
Calcium 460
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0

Tank is fairly new. Has cycled since phitos I have do a 10% water change. Should I try to feed it?

reid429 · Jul 18, 2016

Looks good to me and is inflated

Ubans13 · Jul 18, 2016

Usually looks like this

Ubans13 · Jul 18, 2016

Is this usual for them to sit open like that?

Leslie Tabor · Jul 18, 2016

How old is this tank? Your rockwork looks way too white for this to have cycled...gaping mouths are not normal. Do you have any live rock in your set up?

Ubans13 · Jul 18, 2016

Tank is cycled about 3 months has gone through diatom bloom all chem is stable. I understand there are other staged. Tank has been cycled in terms of ammonia and nitrite and nitrate. Everything else is doing great. Getting big. Growing quick

Ubans13 · Jul 18, 2016

Ok so just like that he now looksike this

meir · Jul 19, 2016

Ubans13 said:
So I have had this anemone since june 26. It has been open eating shrimp. Came home today and its mouth is open and is partially closed.

Water salinity 1.026
kH 10
Calcium 460
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0

Tank is fairly new. Has cycled since phitos I have do a 10% water change. Should I try to feed it?

How old is the tank? It's mouth is gaping open, its a bad sign it's not doing well!! I recommend giving it to a friend w a older more mature tank till urs is abt 150 days old

meir · Jul 19, 2016

Ur not having coralline growth that's weird I have a 5 gal 2+ moths old and this is how it looks currently there is a bit of reg algae but that's because I'm away and someone else is taking care of it

meir · Jul 19, 2016

meir · Jul 19, 2016

All the green on the Rock is green coralline but is turning to purple! Also abt the valantini puffer he's just there temporary he's going to a much larger tank when I get back

meir · Jul 19, 2016

The white on the rock that u see used to be the bottom but I changed the aquascape and the bottom hasn't grown to much coralline yet

Ubans13 · Jul 19, 2016

My system didnt even go through a diatom bloom till late. I was running ultra pure water from my place of work. Prob wasnt the best decision. Was going with a bare bottom and then decided to add the sand bottom. Once the sand was added and i started to use my own RO water did my tank then start the diatom bloom. My water was to pure as it is used in steam turbines and has hardly any impurities.

What corals do you have in your tank with that puffer. Would love to add a puffer to my system.

silva218 · Jul 19, 2016

Sometimes a day after I feed my nem it will close up like yours did. However it will spit out a brown mucus which i assume is its waste.

However the color of your nem worries me. Its seems very dull, which leads me to believe it is stressed.

What kind of lights are on the tank? Looks like PC?

silva218 · Jul 19, 2016

Also there are diatoms on your sandbed.... Your cycle is not finished

Ubans13 · Jul 19, 2016

I have the marine land reef light. Will be upgrading in a little and running maybe to much white light right now?.

Ubans13 · Jul 19, 2016

Also find it weird that it isnt moving around like it is unhappy with its placement. Foot is deep in the rocks and has been there almost a month. Why sudden decline. Test parameters daily only thing that really changes slightly is my calcium level and temp. Temp only swings by maybe .5 and is around 78°

Ubans13 · Jul 19, 2016

Also have a green torch, duncan, acan and zoa. All showing good growth and added same as anemone.

Paulski510 · Jul 19, 2016

Ubans13 said:
So I have had this anemone since june 26. It has been open eating shrimp. Came home today and its mouth is open and is partially closed.

Water salinity 1.026
kH 10
Calcium 460
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0

Tank is fairly new. Has cycled since phitos I have do a 10% water change. Should I try to feed it?

Anemones are weird creatures and do weird things.in my experience as long as they are not decaying let them kick it

Nemguy123 · Jul 19, 2016

When they go through deflating cycles like that they usually end up splitting I have a BTA species tanks and that's what happens before they split they also deflate and gape moth to expel waste if you feed often then it's just deflating to expel waste