anemone gaping mouth HELP!!!

oscarxj

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Help!!! I have have a rbta that is around 13" across I have had for almost a month. It has been doing fine until this afternoon. I noticed that my two clowns were swimming closer and closer to it, so I'm not sure if they are bothering it or if there is something else wrong. I also saw my blue faced angel nipping at it. A while after my clowns were swimming near it, I noticed that its mouth was gaping open. This was at 7PM but it was doing fine at 5PM. At 7PM I saw that it was all balled up and that is when the blue faced angel was nipping at its mouth. I tested the water and I fed it krill two days ago and been feeding it every two to three days, so maybe i'm not feeding it enough? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks

temp 80 degrees

ammonia 0 ppm

nitrate 0 ppm

nitrite o ppm

ph 8.2-8.4

salinity 1.025
 
The blue face is stressing him out. They are not reef safe and will nip and continue to stress out the anemone or the anemone will sting the blue face and kill him. The clowns were probably trying to host it. From what it sounds like is the blue face is stressing him out.
 
This was the first time I have seen the blued faced angel nip at the rbta I also have a gbta that I have had for months and the blue faced angel hasn't nip at him.
 
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