Anenome ok?

[Kaotic]

Just wondering is this anenome ok? Only been in the tank 2 days. Fed him lastnight and he looks like this this morning.
He is moving around though.
Best pics I can get. Hes in a awkward spot.
The no light pics are from an hour ago.
The pics with the lights are from 15 mins ago
Any info would be great.

 

[canadianeh]

Always include your tank profile and the detail for this kind of questions as people will start asking these questions to help to answer your question

 

[Kaotic]

Always include your tank profile and the detail for this kind of questions as people will start asking these questions to help to answer your question

75 gallon tank. Been up a month. Yes it has cycled.
2 clowns
2 peppermint shrimp
2 snails.
Any certain info you're looking for?
Let me know.

 

[Kaotic]

75 gallon tank. Been up a month. Yes it has cycled.
2 clowns
2 peppermint shrimp
2 snails.
Any certain info you're looking for?
Let me know.

Green bubble tip anemone

 

[terraincognita]

He's 100% bleached did you get him like that? Or has he progressed to that state?

Will be a task to get him fully back to health if this is your first nem IMO. But if you're dedicated you can do it.

 

[Dbichler]

Thanks this young have a hard time with anemones yours is bleached so needs a lot of tlc good stable parameters especially salinity and small feeding every other day. What lights do you use as well

 

[Eric1493]

75 gallon tank. Been up a month. Yes it has cycled.
2 clowns
2 peppermint shrimp
2 snails.
Any certain info you're looking for?
Let me know.

Anemones should be kept in an at least 6-8 month established tank. The moving is likely from stress, and feeding it will only stress it more. To me, that anemone looks suuuuper bleached, not green. I'm no anemone expert, so I'll let the more experienced folks advise you, but that anemone is not looking to be doing so well.

 

[Kaotic]

He's 100% bleached did you get him like that? Or has he progressed to that state?

Will be a task to get him fully back to health if this is your first nem IMO. But if you're dedicated you can do it.

I got him like this from a coral store.

 

[Arabyps]

What is the problem you think you have?

 

[face]

Definitely not ok looks nearly dead!

 

[terraincognita]

IF you got him bleached like that I would try to bring him back or send him back if possible honestly.

Since this is your first nem really not fun to try to get a sick one and start there.

BTA's can be very hardy, What else do you have in that tank?

The reason nems are hard to keep in young tanks is just STABILITY. young tanks parameters tend to swing and flucuate much greater than an established tank.

If you can however work and keep your water params stable you will be fine. But this is a really hard task as well for a budding tank and a new reefer.

Water quality and stability is super super super key for nems, they inflate their entire bodies with the surrounding water, so if you have high NO2, NO3, or NO4 you're going to have problems with the Nem since they're toxic to him in high numbers. (there's also many, many other things in your water that could be wrong, but this is a common example)

After feeding and other things in young tanks, those parameters tend to spike and flucuate often. All that flucuation will cause a lot of extra stress on the nem thus leading to it's death. More so than with fish or other animals since it will be constantly trying to adjust the water in it's body to match the surrounding water, however if that water is also toxic it's just like triple stress on the nem.

I wouldn't feed him until he's healthy, it will add excess nutrients as well to a tank like this that are unnecessary right now. Nems don't need to be constantly fed.

If you insist on a nem right now I totally understand but at least try to get a healthy one.

Go to google and type in Healthy Green Bubble Tip anemone, you will see how he should look.

This isn't a complete understanding of how nems work, but just a laymans explanation which will give you enough insight as to what to do to help keep a nem.

 

[Kaotic]

I got him like this from a coral store.

Coral/fish store.
And I'm just assuming it was a green tip. All it said was bubble tip anemone.
He has light green tinted with pinkish purple ends to his tips.

 

[terraincognita]

Coral/fish store.
And I'm just assuming it was a green tip. All it said was bubble tip anemone.
He has light green tinted with pinkish purple ends to his tips.

most likely is a green BTA they're super common in LFS's right now, seem to be the only BTA around.

This is how he should look when healthy.

 

[Arabyps]

Coral/fish store.
And I'm just assuming it was a green tip. All it said was bubble tip anemone.
He has light green tinted with pinkish purple ends to his tips.

I asked you what problem you think you have. From what I can see the anemone is fine. I have never heard of bleaching an anemone, they are not coral. It certainly does not look dead. It appears to have normal extension, moving around is normal, actually looks quite good. Colors on bubble tips vary greatly. I would solicit feed back from more experienced reefers such as the reefsquad.

 

[terraincognita]

75 gallon tank. Been up a month. Yes it has cycled.
2 clowns
2 peppermint shrimp
2 snails.
Any certain info you're looking for?
Let me know.

Missed this, post your most recent params as well will help, but again, those can fluctuate greatly over the course of a day in a new tanks, tons of evidence on this, so you might not even catch high spikes during your testings.

 

[Arabyps]

most likely is a green BTA they're super common in LFS's right now, seem to be the only BTA around.

This is how he should look when healthy.

This is how SOME look.

 

[terraincognita]

This is how SOME look.

Yes there are variations of Green BTA's for sure. But the type he has i'm like 75% sure it's of this species, may not get as green, but should definitely have a lot more color, the foot and tenticles are almost white, Anemones absolutely 100,000% do bleach. This is long since confirmed.

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[ScubaFish802]

I asked you what problem you think you have. From what I can see the anemone is fine. I have never heard of bleaching an anemone, very are not coral. It certainly does not look dead. It appears to have normal extension, moving around is normal, actually looks quite good. Colors or bubble tips vary greatly. I would solicit feed back from more experienced reefers such as the reefsquad.

Just wanted to point out that nems can certainly bleach as they also have zooxanthellae similar to corals

Other than being a bit light the nem itself looks to be in okay shape.. it doesn't appear to be deflated or have a gaping mouth, pushing out it;s insides or anything. Tank will need to be kept very stable for sure though as others have mentioned already..

 

[Arabyps]

Yes there are variations of Green BTA's for sure. But the type he has i'm like 75% sure it's of this species, may not get as green, but should definitely have a lot more color, the foot and tenticles are almost white, Anemones absolutely 100,000% do bleach. This is long since confirmed.

Zooxanthellae Transplant for Bleached Anemones

Anemones and other photosynthetic corals obtain their complement of Zooxanthellae from the water column in the wild. In many case , with stress Anemones can completely loose all of their Zooxanthellae. In case like this, we can jump-start the process by feeding them with live viable...

www.reef2reef.com

You are correct and thank you for making that clear.

 

[terraincognita]

You are correct and thank you for making that clear.

No spite intended. I didn't know myself until recently for sure.

Once you start keeping nems and researching on them more though there's a LOT of info.

Since i had to recently rehab a sick Gig nem I did so much research on nems it's stupid.

Also why i'm saying if it's sick try to give it back, it's a really taxing affair to rehab them.

Extension and everything else does look normal, however it's only been 2 days, and the actual hard part is to say if he'll start healing in that tank, or keep getting worse, he's been on a decline to get to the point of bleaching.... so this guy either has to start rapidly turning it around, or he'll keep getting sick if that makes sense.