Is this normal for an Anemone?

Hugo Garcia · Nov 12, 2019

Hello all, I recently got a Green Bible tip anemone, which hasn’t had the best time in my tank. It doesn’t seem to be doing very well. this morning it started doing this very strange thing. Realizing a very long string. Please let me know if this is normal?

happyhourhero · Nov 12, 2019

It could be expelling waste but that one doesn’t look like it’s in good health overall.

Hugo Garcia · Nov 12, 2019

Any recommendations in what to do?

Dom · Nov 12, 2019

That is one unhappy looking Nem.

Please provide your water parameters (Temp, salinity, nitrates, pH and so on).

Based on the pictures, it seems like there is coralline algae growth on the rocks, so the tank appears to be running a while.

How old is the tank and what kind of lighting do you have?

Can you provide a full tank picture?

Hugo Garcia · Nov 12, 2019

Dom said:
That is one unhappy looking Nem.

Please provide your water parameters (Temp, salinity, nitrates, pH and so on).

Based on the pictures, it seems like there is coralline algae growth on the rocks, so the tank appears to be running a while.

How old is the tank and what kind of lighting do you have?

Can you provide a full tank picture?

Salinity 1025, temperature constant at 77°, other paramentes I cant really tell, just did a deep cleaning on the tank. Removed a lot of crap from the sump in the back. Phosphates must have been high cause there was some hair algea around my GSP. I have a bio pélete running, carbon and GFO on the Caddys, a refugiam with cheato, which I decided to dump half of it, and make sure the rest was clean. Noticed that the cheato was collecting a lot o detritus.

hoping this will improve the water quality.

Hugo Garcia · Nov 12, 2019

Also the lights as 2 Kessil a 80 and a New AI Prime 16HD

Jon Fishman · Nov 12, 2019

angry nem after a big cleanse of the ol’ tank isn’t surprising

Dom · Nov 12, 2019

Hugo Garcia said:
Salinity 1025, temperature constant at 77°, other paramentes I cant really tell, just did a deep cleaning on the tank. Removed a lot of crap from the sump in the back. Phosphates must have been high cause there was some hair algea around my GSP. I have a bio pélete running, carbon and GFO on the Caddys, a refugiam with cheato, which I decided to dump half of it, and make sure the rest was clean. Noticed that the cheato was collecting a lot o detritus.

hoping this will improve the water quality.

A picture is worth a thousand words. And two things I get from the picture are:

1. Good lighting; they look like Radions...

2. Your sand bed looks pretty deep.

You mentioned you've done some house keeping. Did you stir the sand bed? If so, you may have released toxins which get trapped in the sand bed, altering water quality.