Long tentacle anemone concern

[Tmm87]

Recently got a long tentacle anemone from my LFS.

First night in it did the usual walk about, settled into a nice crevice and dug it's foot in. Now it's been almost a week and it looks like it might be taking a turn for the worst.

Tank has been up and running for 4 months. All parameters are stable (no ammonia, no nitrite, nitrate hovers around 5-10) temp sits at 78, salinity 1.026, no phosphate. I also have a small rbta that's doing just fine. All corals are happy and growing (mix of softies, LPS and a couple SPS).

I've attached a couple pics. Difficult to see much due to the angle. His foot was buried, last night it let go and was just sitting there, mouth gaping and now it won't seem to grab on. Tentacles are still sticky and the coloring is the same.

 

[cracker]

it still has good color. I'd like to know also

 

[JoshH]

@Amoo any thoughts here? He could still be adjusting to the new system

 

[Tmm87]

@Amoo any thoughts here? He could still be adjusting to the new system

I'd like to hope that's what's going on but I've never run into this issue with any of my previous nems. Only mouth gaping that went on was pooping and it closed back up fairly quickly. This one did look like it expelled some brown, stringy waste but the mouth seems to have gotten wider instead of closing up.

 

[Amoo]

I read this once and kind of wanted to wait and see, but IMO this one is at the point where I would pull it and treat it.

I'm assuming you've got enough sand in there for him to get a good deep hole with his foot. The wandering isn't as much of a concern to me as the mouth is. I would expect it to maybe be a little droopy the first day or so, but not still gaping like it's showing in pictures a week later. I would personally pull it and treat it while it's still got some good strength left, rather than wait for it to get even weaker and further down the rabbit hole.

 

[Tmm87]

I read this once and kind of wanted to wait and see, but IMO this one is at the point where I would pull it and treat it.

I'm assuming you've got enough sand in there for him to get a good deep hole with his foot. The wandering isn't as much of a concern to me as the mouth is. I would expect it to maybe be a little droopy the first day or so, but not still gaping like it's showing in pictures a week later. I would personally pull it and treat it while it's still got some good strength left, rather than wait for it to get even weaker and further down the rabbit hole.

The diamond goby does move it all around quite frequently but the area where he grabbed on and dug his foot in was around 5 inches deep.

What would be causing this?

 

[davocean]

Well, it's not a natural color for LTA for starters, I've seen some these in that bright green or blue or purple and I'm not sure if they are dyed or what, and so far the survival rate of these is not very good.

An LTA should have a fair amount of beige color to it, w/ color highlights, or some may have a lot of color but there is usually still a beige base color.

 

[Tmm87]

So I moved it to a 10g I had, ran to the store and by the time I got back the tank was all cloudy and he looked really odd.

Totally unresponsive, when I picked it up the tentacles started to ooze water out and low and behold...the funky green and blue coloring started coming with it.