Unhappy Anemone

[Sonam]

Hello All,

Our anemone, which has been happy where it is for a long time, has spent the past four days deflated. Prior to that it was doing really well. It split several months ago and we ended up selling the other part because they appeared to be competing for the same place. After the second anemone left this one was doing great.

Not sure why it's so deflated for so long (it's done this before but bounced right back within a day or two.)

We do have a new coral not too far from it (photo below) - could that be causing trouble?

(PS: we know we have a GHA issue that is resolving - much better now than it was. The anemone did well throughout that process).

 

[Tahoe61]

Did you chemically treat the algae issue?

Have you checked all water chemistry?

Did your recently add a lot of carbon or GFO?

 

[Sonam]

No carbon or GFO that is new (we have GFO). We are using NOPoX for the algae along with good old manual harvesting.
I haven't checked the chemistry in the past few days but did check it a few weeks ago (check about once a month and it's been stable).
I can do some tests though and see if something has come up.

 

[Tahoe61]

Oh ok well definitely check all chemistry.

It's been my experience that when I lag on my tank maintenance and the nitrates and phosphates climb slowly up when I do too quick of a correction/intervention some sensitive inverts respond negatively to the change or even improvement. The tank inhabitants have had a long time to slowly adjust to their tanks water chemistry, quick or quicker interventions may cause stress.

 

[Sonam]

Thank you for the reply - these are helpful questions.