Need Advice Anenome deflated

Lisa Cain · Mar 11, 2018

Does anyone know what would make an anenome go from fully extended to active to totally deflated as in the picture below. Is it dying? Water parameters are good. It was a bubble tip anenome. The clownfish loves it.

Supurderek · Mar 11, 2018

Post exact parameters. Anemone hiding under the rock isn’t the best spot since it won’t get nutrients from light. You may want to target feed it a bit. Also, what light do you have exactly?

Supurderek · Mar 11, 2018

Also, what do you use for flow in the tank?

Lisa Cain · Mar 11, 2018

Supurderek said:
Post exact parameters. Anemone hiding under the rock isn’t the best spot since it won’t get nutrients from light. You may want to target feed it a bit. Also, what light do you have exactly?

32 gallon biocube with LED lights that came with tank
ammonia 0
nitrate 0
nitrite 0
Flow- pretty good , I use nothing special simply flow from biocube

jackson2424 · Mar 11, 2018

How often do you feed it?

Lisa Cain · Mar 11, 2018

I tried to feed it shrimp last week but did not eat. It is normally aggressive about eating. It seems to be on the delcine. I was so proud of it. Last night I tired to target feed it reef roids since it is deflated.

jackson2424 · Mar 11, 2018

Hmm I’m not sure then. Sometimes when you feed them too much they go under rocks because they don’t need to use the light for food. What is you lighting

Lisa Cain · Mar 11, 2018

jackson2424 said:
How often do you feed it?

I used to feed it twice a week. mIt loved shrimp.It had a wonderful apetite. but the last time I tried to feed it . It would not eat. It started to change color and get dark and it also started to deflate. Now it has been under the rock for two days. How to I get it back to normal.

LPStandard · Mar 11, 2018

Give it time. Sometimes they deflate for a day or two, then come right back.
Could be splitting, expelling waste etc.

Lisa Cain · Mar 11, 2018

jackson2424 said:
Hmm I’m not sure then. Sometimes when you feed them too much they go under rocks because they don’t need to use the light for food. What is you lighting

the LED that comes with teh biocube. I will post a picture of the tank.

Supurderek · Mar 11, 2018

I wouldn’t worry too much. Give it time as stated above.

Lisa Cain · Mar 11, 2018

He started to defleate the same day that I noticed that my Skunk cleaner shrimp was missing. I saw a head with two eyes. I thought that probably he ate the shrimp and got sick.