Is something wrong with my sea anemone?

JBN61511 · Mar 21, 2017

We brought home our sea anemone about 2 weeks ago, it attached to our Halloween crab but being new to the Marin aquarium we thought the anemone was hurting the crab so we separated them... Come to find out they were just friends...Our anemone has not attached to anything other than the crab and as of yesterday our anemone is looking a bit "gross" shriveled, foggy in color, and very still. I thought maybe it was due to not attaching soo I kind of moves and pushed it up on our live rock (it seems to have attached).

Does it look like it will survive? Should I take it out? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Humblefish · Mar 21, 2017

Moved to anemone forum

#reefsquad for help

Humblefish · Mar 21, 2017

What kind of lights are you running on your tank?

Also, can you provide all water parameters and tell us how long your tank has been setup? Ammonia & nitrate readings are most important in this situation.

ngoodermuth · Mar 21, 2017

It looks bleached

if it hasn't settled in this far it may be ill. You could try moving it to a clean hospital tank and treating with cipro. I'm currently doing the same with a haddoni that was attacked by an opportunistic cleaner shrimp [emoji52]

ETA. Provided everything else @Humblefish requested checks out, parameters, lighting, etc.

jsker · Mar 21, 2017

Have you feed the anemone directly yet? I could just be hungry. I made that mistake thinking that all I had to do is broadcast feed and the anemone would take care of itself. I feed twice a week now. a small slice of shrimp. Now I have two

JBN61511 · Mar 21, 2017

We have a Fluval AquaSky LED light
We keep our tank at about 75° PPT is at a about 1.023. there are soo many settings for our light, what would be best. We normally turn it on to the white color and then dark blue at night.

Humblefish · Mar 21, 2017

@JBN61511 Is that a condylactis anemone?

JBN61511 · Mar 21, 2017

jsker said:
Have you feed the anemone directly yet? I could just be hungry. I made that mistake thinking that all I had to do is broadcast feed and the anemone would take care of itself. I feed twice a week now. a small slice of shrimp. Now I have two

Yeah i was hoping this was this issue so i fed ship this morning but didn't seem interested

JBN61511 · Mar 21, 2017

Humblefish said:
@JBN61511 Is that a condylactis anemone?

Ah honestly I'm not sure my husband brought it home he's at work right now so thought I could figure this out before but I will ask him when he is home...Looks like it is though

jsker · Mar 21, 2017

JBN61511 said:
Yeah i was hoping this was this issue so i fed ship this morning but didn't seem interested

As you stated the system is pretty new, next would be the parameters to help. I would try feeding again just before the light go out the night.

Humblefish · Mar 21, 2017

JBN61511 said:
Ah honestly I'm not sure my husband brought it home he's at work right now so thought I could figure this out before but I will ask him when he is home...Looks like it is though

Those need really strong light. I'm not sure if your LEDs are reef grade.

bairdimusprime · Mar 21, 2017

Looks like a really bleached Condy. Is it attached to anything or free floating? has its mouth closed yet or is it still in the spitting its guts out position?
lights may not be strong enough for a Nem either.
new tanks are tough to keep nems in... my tanks are dedicated to anemones and i usually wait a year of STABLE conditions before adding any