Nem got shredded

[Bryce M.]

Sigh, I know all I can do is wait... but man.... he was doing really good and then I woke up this morning his mouth was down and had damage and his foot was completely white and up......

 

[reef lover]

Bummer. Id make sure my power heads were covered...

 

[Bryce M.]

Man I'm really upset about this
I've been having issues keeping things long term and I thought I had everything down
and I mean I do, this isn't my parameters and I know this it's still off putting

 

[Birdbrains?]

I am sorry to hear that, is the Nem doing somewhat okay?

Also I am curious, how could it get it's mouth into a power head and pull back out? I cannot imagine a Nem pulling itself back out of a power head like that, what species is it?

 

[Bryce M.]

okay thinking about this, this is odd. he was around the same rock he was the night prior, no pumps near by. He was on the same rock but his mouth was down with a little tear on him. Would something tried to of eat him?

I am sorry to hear that, is the Nem doing somewhat okay?

Also I am curious, how could it get it's mouth into a power head and pull back out? I cannot imagine a Nem pulling itself back out of a power head like that, what species is it?

He is a snowflake bulb tip


he's moving around now and getting some color back

 

[Birdbrains?]

Hmm I cannot see any tear on the picture but they can easily recover from a tear.

They can look really weird over a long period while adjusting. They will look great one day and then suddenly shift their "attention" to securing their foot. Then they kinda let go of the energy in their upper parts while getting an optimal grip, but I am not sure if that could look like a tear or similar.

It looks like a small specimen, that means it can run out of energy midway in doing something and that looks very flat so to speak.

How bad did the tear look (if you don't mind that I ask) ?

 

[Bryce M.]

Hmm I cannot see any tear on the picture but they can easily recover from a tear.

They can look really weird over a long period while adjusting. They will look great one day and then suddenly shift their "attention" to securing their foot. Then they kinda let go of the energy in their upper parts while getting an optimal grip, but I am not sure if that could look like a tear or similar.

It looks like a small specimen, that means it can run out of energy midway in doing something and that looks very flat so to speak.

How bad did the tear look (if you don't mind that I ask) ?

Weird, he's been in the tank for a month or two but I just got a new light a few days ago
it didn't look bad at all just the foot scared me

 

[Zan's Aquatica]

I have a friend whose nem was massacred and came back from a worm like state... looks amazing now and is massive

 

[Birdbrains?]

Ah, then it might not be a big issue
How is it doing today???

They will sometimes make that big bloated looking foot, either to move around or to get a better grip on things.

I suggest that you keep a really close eye on the tear. Nems does not have a central nervous system, so it cannot receive a damage that it cannot recover from.

Anemones can practically re-grow out of a left over tissue of anemone

The main concern would be, that when an anemone tears, it can begin to decompose.

So I would presume that your Nem have only smaller power reserves and since it had new lighting, it reacted by trying to find the optimal position. That was possibly too hard for it and it ran out of energy during the night (they kinda relax during nighttime, they also use that laxness to move around during nighttime).

If the Nem can close the tear back up, as many of us have seen happen after power head accidents, it can easily recover.

If you notice the Nem tearing more and more, it means the Nem have begun to rot and then it becomes to risky to keep it in a tank with other livestock.

 

[Bryce M.]

Ah, then it might not be a big issue
How is it doing today???

They will sometimes make that big bloated looking foot, either to move around or to get a better grip on things.

I suggest that you keep a really close eye on the tear. Nems does not have a central nervous system, so it cannot receive a damage that it cannot recover from.

Anemones can practically re-grow out of a left over tissue of anemone

The main concern would be, that when an anemone tears, it can begin to decompose.

So I would presume that your Nem have only smaller power reserves and since it had new lighting, it reacted by trying to find the optimal position. That was possibly too hard for it and it ran out of energy during the night (they kinda relax during nighttime, they also use that laxness to move around during nighttime).

If the Nem can close the tear back up, as many of us have seen happen after power head accidents, it can easily recover.

If you notice the Nem tearing more and more, it means the Nem have begun to rot and then it becomes to risky to keep it in a tank with other livestock.

He's where he was yesterday. Nothing new, looking okayish

 

[Birdbrains?]

Cool, perhaps it just needs time

 

[Bryce M.]

Cool, perhaps it just needs time

hope so!

 

[Bryce M.]

This is how hes looking. Right looks great but the left is making me nervous

 

[Birdbrains?]

Is is climbing around? It looks kinda as if it is trying to split down the middle using the rock formation.

 

[Bryce M.]

Is is climbing around? It looks kinda as if it is trying to split down the middle using the rock formation.

it does look like that but this morning he was just sitting on some rocks it was severely in my softie side of the tank with cheap light. I moved my kessle over a tad, I didn't want to blast it but I wanted it to get atleast a little light that will actually sustain it. It looks like it was trying to climb up higher to the light.
It was going to the right away from it but it's currently moving up to the light

 

[ca1ore]

As noted, anemones can recover from pretty significant damage. Foot damage generally has a poorer prognosis that disc damage. Bacterial infections are more likely though.

 

[Bryce M.]

Uhhhhh...... looking really shredded now
Help?

 

[Bryce M.]

OH YOU MUST BE KIDDING ME
I FOUND OUT WHY IT'S LIKE THAT
MY FOXFACE RABBIT FISH HAS BEEN EATING IT!
MY FOXFACE HAS BEEN EATING MY NEM!?

 

[reef lover]

Yikes! Sometimes fish go rogue...looks like the nem is probably toast now. will have to decide which you like better.

 

[Bryce M.]

The foxface is staying and they are not known for this
I know why he's going after it. the shred on it looks like the clams I feed so he thinks it's a clam