Rock flower anemones

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I recently purchased and received a shipment of rock flower anemones from Rare Reef. I got three and split with a few other people. I haven't heard from two of the others, but of the six I know of, they are pretty much goners. Mine opened up well the first night. Two ate very well, but the smallest one found a crevice slid in and never appeared again. That was two weeks ago. The other two were attached to rocks, midwater under new T5s. The next day they had leapt off and shriveled up on the sand bed then proceeded to dissolve. Water parameters are nominal. Two new coral banded shrimp are fine as are all other soft corals. Was it me or stock problems? My friend's RFA did the same thing.
Any help will be appreciated. Oh yeah, tank is about four years old.
 
It's possible they were already somewhat bad when you got them. But anemones will usually get pretty small when they excrete their waste and can stay small for awhile usually mine will only shrink for about three hours tops. And I have one that never wants to stay in one spot. I would try again but buy from
Your local reef store and just do one at a time it's the first one feels comfortable than add another on the opposite side of your tank
 

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