Help! BTA dying?!

[James M]

Sorry to hear that

 

[DMG Reef]

Sorry for your loss. If you decide to try another anemone later, I think your issue was your lighting. My main tank has T5 lighting and I recently set up a second tank to play with LED lighting. I moved a one-year old rainbow BTA to the tank with LEDs and within a few days, it did exactly what your nem did, released its zooxanthellae, not waste. I moved it back to the main tank under T5's and he recovered quickly.

I underestimated the power of my LEDs and fried several SPS corals as well. I raised the lights 4 more inches and lowered the intensity, and SPS are doing fine now.

When water parameters are within range, lighting is generally the culprit in my experience.

 

[Captain Quint]

Thank you all for your help!
Last night there were significant tears in his foot and not long after I saw a piece of him float up, so I removed him from my tank and set in in QT. He did not make it. Thank you all for your help and insight!

I'm sorry.