Well my fear came true!

[livinlifeinBKK]

How olds your tank btw? If it's less than 6 months or so it might be in you and the nem's best interest to let it mature a little bit more before adding a new one

 

[AydenLincoln]

How olds your tank btw? If it's less than 6 months or so it might be in you and the nem's best interest to let it mature a little bit more before adding a new one

True and almost 6 months lol. I’m going to wait a bit anyway because the guard has to come.

 

[Cell]

So you are giving up on that one, just to buy a new one once you get a guard? Maybe just hold off then for awhile until your tank matures more and you educate yourself a bit more about nem keeping.

 

[AydenLincoln]

So you are giving up on that one, just to buy a new one once you get a guard? Maybe just hold off then for awhile until your tank matures more and you educate yourself a bit more about nem keeping.

I have been it won’t happen again…his foot tore so there was no recovering from that lesson learned! I will be getting a guard and then a new one soon not now. And originally I was going to banish him to an isolation box which I might do now…but my lfs was out.

 

[Cell]

Foot tear is nothing to a bta.

 

[dvgyfresh]

I have been it won’t happen again…his foot tore so there was no recovering from that lesson learned! I will be getting a guard and then a new one soon not now.

I leave them in the tank until they start to melt , nems are very resilient and can recover from being torn a bit, bubble tips especially are hardy. A long tentacle anemone may not be able to make a torn foot but a bubble tip could

 

[AydenLincoln]

I leave them in the tank until they start to melt , nems are very resilient and can recover from being torn a bit, bubble tips especially are hardy. A long tentacle anemone may not be able to make a torn foot but a bubble tip could

I flushed him! It’s just not worth the risk for me I don’t want it to nuke the tank and it stopped moving too and shriveled up. Oh and I need to raise my pH too.

 

[Cell]

I flushed him! It’s just not worth the risk for me I don’t want it to nuke the tank and it stopped moving too and shriveled up.

Maybe consider something other than a bta then. That was not a dead bta you were holding in that pic.

 

[DarkReefer]

That nem looked alright in the pictures you took of it after it came off the powerhead.
If my nem looked like that I'd have given it a chance instead of flushing it.

 

[AydenLincoln]

That nem looked alright in the pictures you took of it after it came off the powerhead.
If my nem looked like that I'd have given it a chance instead of flushing it.

We shall never know but I really don’t think so but that’s just me because I’ve seen him closed up and white and puffy and then he started turning brown and shriveled after getting caught the second time but again lesson learned.

 

[Ashish Patel]

Wow, amazing it survived!! that never has a good ending

 

[AydenLincoln]

Wow, amazing it survived!! that never has a good ending

It doesn’t have a good ending it didn’t survive! It happened again! And his foot tore off and he turned brown so I flushed him! RIP! Lesson learned.

 

[AydenLincoln]

That nem looked alright in the pictures you took of it after it came off the powerhead.
If my nem looked like that I'd have given it a chance instead of flushing it.

You think this looks okay? It happened twice and the second time he was not looking good and his foot tore off.

 

[DarkReefer]

2nd time idk, hard to see whilst it's being held and not in the tank.

I've just had one of my nems blend itself last night too unfortunately, mine looked far more gone than that though

 

[AydenLincoln]

2nd time idk, hard to see whilst it's being held and not in the tank.

I've just had one of my nems blend itself last night too unfortunately, mine looked far more gone than that though

Well he looked like this in the tank too but I just didn’t want to risk it nuking my tank.