Help my anemone anemonemone

waterfae · Dec 14, 2013

Sorry finding nemo reference. But in all seriousness my nem looks bad and sick, about 2 weeks ago we came home to it caught in the intake for the filter. It was doing better this morning I noticed its tentacles went flat and blue and its leaking out this weird brownish stuff. I pulled it into isolation so hopefully that will help but beside tlc and isolation what helps nems recover

Darth Polymnus · Dec 14, 2013

Time. Only time will tell if it recovers. How much damage did it incur? People have cut their anemones in half to propagate them, so they can handle massive trauma. Make sure water conditions are pristine and plenty of light. It may pull through. Good luck.

waterfae · Dec 14, 2013

The damage was minor as far as I could tell the tentacles were the only part effected, but again only as far as I could tell. So should I keep the anemone in isolation/ hospital tank for a while

Darth Polymnus · Dec 15, 2013

Better to keep him in water he's familiar with. Trauma plus new water could shock him and that could kill him. If you leave him in the display tank, watch him closely. If he dies, he could release toxins that could crash your tank.

waterfae · Dec 19, 2013

So I kept it in a floating tank I magneted down to the side so what I think it was doing was regrowing its tentacles because it was loosing the top bits so I sucked them out and away from him and out of the tank so once he stoped losing bits he bloomed right out

waterfae · Dec 24, 2013

Update... He looks alive but not 100% I put him back in the sand bed when he looked good but he went right back to losing bits... idk if something is harrassing it, if its got some sort of anemone ptsd or stolkholm syndrome because not 2 days later looked dead and flat...

Dalmatia · Dec 25, 2013

waterfae said:
Update... He looks alive but not 100% I put him back in the sand bed when he looked good but he went right back to losing bits... idk if something is harrassing it, if its got some sort of anemone ptsd or stolkholm syndrome because not 2 days later looked dead and flat...

Too much changes for a hurt anemone. Best thing would have been to leave it and let it recover with out changing its water parameters (putting it in another tank), than again if it was put in another tank and was recovering, well you should have let it with out changing the parameters again. With a healthy invert that's a lot of stress.
Let it be and hope for the best