anemone dying

[tideshark]

Just got a new BTA a few days ago. Everyday it goes from good to bad and back to good. It has not eaten yet. It will look fine one day, then next day look like total deflated death with the mouth all gaping open and loose and then later on the same day it will look like it is perfectly fine again. Anyone have this happen to them and is there anything I can do to help it?

 

[BongoSolo3]

What are you trying to feed it?

Has it moved around the tank at all?

 

[C5flyboy]

I just lost my GBTA and that was exactly what it was doing leading up to its demise. I have had him for a while but there is no guarantee on how long things will live in our tanks. You can never be totally sure of the condition of the animals you get from the LFS or online. Hopefully yours will pull through. Keep a very close watch on your water parameters cause if it is dying it will foul up your water pretty good.

 

[tideshark]

Been trying to feed it silver sides and have hit it with a baster two different blends I have made, one of mixed sea foods (shrimp, crab, salmon, cyclopeze, scallops, muscles, clams) and the other isnt really a blend, its just that Coral Frezy Ultimate Coral Food.

It is also a GBTA just like you said yours is. This morning it looked like death again and I noticed it was barely hanging on the rock anymore so I picked it up and relocated it a lil higher to see if more light may help. It is a bit more full looking again right now, but no saying at all that later it won't look like an inverted turd on again

Thanks for the info, if anyone else has any tips/tricks or any useful info on how to keep it alive I greatly appreciate it

 

[BongoSolo3]

Mysis. My RBTA looked terrible when I got it as well, and eventually it took the small tail end of the a mysis. Slowly I got it up being able to eat a fully piece, and before I knew it, the thing turned into a giant pig.

Also, I just gently place the mysis onto the nem or it does not eat. It must not like the pressure or flow that comes with sqeezing a baster - so I just use a pair of SS tweezers and drop mysis on it.

 

[Graham670]

Tideshark, can you post a pic of what your bta looks like when it appears to be dying? It sounds similiar to the issue im having with mine. Although i had a damn hermit crab climbing on mine before it started looking how it does now. Thanks.

 

[slumlord]

In my experience anytime you get a new anem it will look pretty terrible for the first few days. I wouldn't give up hope, I'd try a huge water change just to make sure it's not the water conditions making it act weird.

 

[cichlidconvert]

bta's will do that in the beginning. and really they will do that when they are dying. and sometimes they just do that. I have nine bta's in a 20 gallon tank and have learned a bit with that tank noticing what one will do, as opposed to another with the same water parameters. Or how lighting in the same tank or flow affects them. In that tank I can see a nem do that and if the others arent I just sit back and catalog what the response is. I had a gbta do that for a month or two in the begining and now only does that once a week or two. In response to when I feed him really. You can drive yourself crazy worrying about these guys but really if your lighting is good and parameters are good just shoot for stability and they will be fine.

 

[ReeferBill]

Plus 1 on the water change,it can only help it inflate more and get happy!!!! Good Luck? How old is your set up?