Injured Anemone Help!!!

[NewCaliCaptives]

Because it's bleached and expelling it's zoo...

Idk, that may just be the photo. There was 3 pieces of fish food in what came out that the clown was giving it. Anyway, I don’t think it’s bleached, it’s very green in person.

 

[Hincapiej4]

should be nontransparent

 

[terraincognita]

I'm not an Nem Expert, but pretty familiar with BTA's.

IMO he's not bleached, definitely not happy and healthy and in full bloom, But he's a light green BTA, I honestly don't think he will gain too much more color, just lose some transparency and maybe a bit "brighter", and more spots or coloration on his tips.

I could be wrong, but I agree with OP. Better photos would help.

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QT's are simple, a power head with Oxygen can be enough if as long as you're not feeding at all. I don't recommend feeding Nems in QT and neither do most others. You should get an easy ammonia detector and just do WC's every 2-3 days. Or if water is every cloudy.

Also I would put the breeder net instead over your power head in the QT somehow, or create a barrier so he doesn't ever get sucked up again.

Or a HOB filter, but Power head is better for more flow.

 

[Hincapiej4]

No..sorry man in all the pics it looks bleached. Look at the difference between yours and mine.

 

[terraincognita]

should be nontransparent

There's many species of Bubble Tips . Almost looks like an LT Nem though. This is a nice one. Good Job on raising him!

 

[NewCaliCaptives]

It looks the same as other green bubble tips Ive seen, that’s a very beautiful anemone!

 

[Hincapiej4]

There's many species of Bubble Tips . This is a nice one. Good Job on raising him!

Have two huge black widows both are 9' + across

 

[Hincapiej4]

It looks the same as other green bubble tips Ive seen, that’s a very beautiful anemone!

Hopefully I'm wrong man. But I dunno. More pics if possible. It's looking bleached to me.

 

[NewCaliCaptives]

Hopefully I'm wrong man. But I dunno. More pics if possible. It's looking bleached to me.

Okay I’ll try and go get some more, if it is slightly bleached do I need to do something differently ?

 

[NewCaliCaptives]

Here’s some more pics, using flash. If I was able to get it up on the rock so it could secure its foot would that help? It had righted itself but rolled back over

 

[Hincapiej4]

Okay I’ll try and go get some more, if it is slightly bleached do I need to do something differently ?

Well, you just got it so it's probably not your fault man. Buuuut. To help it.. make sure everything is very very stable. Give it VERY gentle flow and low to medium MAYBE light. Don't try to feed it, the mouth is gaping and it's stressed. Don't let the clown get to it, and don't handle it too much. Bta don't like the sand..but you don't wanna move it too much...that's your choice. All you can do now is wait. Once they bleach AND gape, it's hard.

 

[terraincognita]

Okay I’ll try and go get some more, if it is slightly bleached do I need to do something differently ?

A lot of Nems in the trade in LFS's are going to be stressed and unhealthy IME.

Just getting them into a better environment for 1 helps.

If you really want to nurse this Anemone back to health I'd get it into a QT system and nurse it back on it's own.

It's a long process of months. Not for the light of heart in anyway.

Once your nem is fully healthy it will look similar to this:

 

[terraincognita]

Here’s some more pics, using flash. If I was able to get it up on the rock so it could secure its foot would that help? It had righted itself but rolled back over

Short of setting up a QT and nursing it back to health. Not much else to do but except let it be, but don't let it get sucked back up into any filters.

Do not feed it until it is fully healed. Keep your water super fresh. Either through excellent filtration system, or through WC's. Doing this will help heal it.

Peruse around on some of the Anemone Threads here:

you'll gain a lot of helpful tools https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/anemone-clownfish-discussion.182/

 

[Hincapiej4]

dang. It's in a bad way.

 

[Hincapiej4]

A lot of Nems in the trade in LFS's are going to be stressed and unhealthy IME.

Just getting them into a better environment for 1 helps.

If you really want to nurse this Anemone back to health I'd get it into a QT system and nurse it back on it's own.

It's a long process of months. Not for the light of heart in anyway.

Once your nem is fully healthy it will look similar to this:

Now there's a gbta that's NOT bleached. That's healthy.

 

[NewCaliCaptives]

Yeah, I’m super worried about it. That’s a beautiful GBTA! I think I’ll just not mess with it and keep my fingers crossed, got some extra SW on hand if s*** hits the fan. Thank you all for your help and your input, I really appreciate it!

 

[NewCaliCaptives]

Now that it’s lights out the disk is fully opened up. Looking a lot better at the moment, I hope it stays this way. Still hasn’t attached to anything but hopeful

 

[Cell]

Get it off the sandbed onto a rock.