Anemone shriveled up with mouth open

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Sadly my anemone has been shriveled up for a couple days. It’s mouth has been partially open about 40% of the time and it’s been super deflated. I’m going to test water when I get home and post a current pic. Here’s a pic of him last week!
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Any more info? How long have you had the anemone? How old is the tank? What are your parameters? Have you changed anything recently?
 
Sadly my anemone has been shriveled up for a couple days. It’s mouth has been partially open about 40% of the time and it’s been super deflated. I’m going to test water when I get home and post a current pic. Here’s a pic of him last week!
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Last time mine did that it split 3 days later.
 
Wow thanks for the replies! Sorry about the lack of information, I snuck that post in mid chemistry lab... here’s the current setup:
50 gallon tank (7-8 months old) with a 15 gallon sump
Oceanrevive light running 8 hrs of blue (45%)and 6 white (2%)
parameters:
Calcium-425
Magnesium-1320
Alkalinity- 8.5dkh
Phosphate-0.05
Nitrate- ~5
6 days ago I did some re-scaping to get a better flow, as well as a large water change to remove the chemiclean I used to clear out some red cyano I had after I dumped a good amount of reef roids in by accident. I’m hoping the Nem is just thrown off because of the changes, but I’m worried he may be sick/dying seeing that he hasn’t opened up and his mouth has been partially open a couple times. Any thoughts would be awesome! Cheers!
 
Here’s his current state

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Chemiclean can irritate corals and in this case and nems. I suspect this is the case. It has great color and looks healthy even though it is reduced in size right now. Aside from running some GAC and a water change, I'd wait it out for a while and see how it does.
 
I think it's just responding to changes, but also Chemiclean can be pretty nasty. I agree to run some carbon and give it time.
 
Okay sweet! I'm currently running a fresh bag of carbon in the filter sock so hopefully, that cleans out the rest of that nasty. I appreciate the responses :)
 
Looks very similar to a nem I picked up a couple weeks ago and have found to be a bit more sensitive than my other bta's.
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I think it will be Ok
 
50 gallon tank (7-8 months old) with a 15 gallon sump

Oceanrevive light running 8 hrs of blue (45%)and 6 white (2%)

Nitrate- ~5
One more question, how long have you had the anemone?
Three things catch my attention that no one else mentioned.
1. Was the tank set up with dry rock? If so they typically take much longer to become established and anemones do not do well in tanks that are now well established?
2. Anemones love light. I would increase the strength and number of hours you light your tank slowly. Have you taken any par readings on your tank if not try to barrow or rent a par meter to see where your at. BRS rents them.
3. Nitrate is a food source for anemones. I don’t know what Chemiclean does to water chemistry. If your nitrates recently dropped due to the changes you did, that combined with low light levels could be the reason it is unhappy. It your doing anything to reduce nitrates I would cut back until you get nitrates to at least 10. If you don’t have SPS or other sensitive corals I would let it climb higher. BTA anemones are very happy in nitrate levels, as high as 150 in my experience. BTA anemone farmers feed them nitrate added directly to the water column.
 
One more question, how long have you had the anemone?
Three things catch my attention that no one else mentioned.
1. Was the tank set up with dry rock? If so they typically take much longer to become established and anemones do not do well in tanks that are now well established?
2. Anemones love light. I would increase the strength and number of hours you light your tank slowly. Have you taken any par readings on your tank if not try to barrow or rent a par meter to see where your at. BRS rents them.
3. Nitrate is a food source for anemones. I don’t know what Chemiclean does to water chemistry. If your nitrates recently dropped due to the changes you did, that combined with low light levels could be the reason it is unhappy. It your doing anything to reduce nitrates I would cut back until you get nitrates to at least 10. If you don’t have SPS or other sensitive corals I would let it climb higher. BTA anemones are very happy in nitrate levels, as high as 150 in my experience. BTA anemone farmers feed them nitrate added directly to the water column.
UPDATE: things have gotten worse...
The nem gets a good amount of light where my SPS is happy so I’m not leaning towards that, however my nitrates are pretty much at rock bottom... this would also explain the death of my chaeto...

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UPDATE: things have gotten worse...
The nem gets a good amount of light where my SPS is happy so I’m not leaning towards that, however my nitrates are pretty much at rock bottom... this would also explain the death of my chaeto...

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Yes the tank was set up with dry rock, and it’s 6 month old
 
Yes the tank was set up with dry rock, and it’s 6 month old
I think that is your issue. It is pretty hard to beat cured live rock when setting up a new tank. Sorry you had to learn the hard way. Most of us have been there too. Give your tank more time to mature. adding bacteria can be very beneficial in that regards.
 
I think that is your issue. It is pretty hard to beat cured live rock when setting up a new tank. Sorry you had to learn the hard way. Most of us have been there too. Give your tank more time to mature. adding bacteria can be very beneficial in that regards.
Thanks for the reply! I’ll remove him and give him to my buddy with a well established tank tomorrow. Hopefully it will be enough. Hopefully my clown will forgive me. Again, thanks for the good info, I appreciate it!
 

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