Anemone gonna make it?

[starionesir]

I currently have this anemone I got from a local guy that was taking his tank down. It has looked like this from the day he gave him to me. Here is a couple pictures. When I first came home he was completely closed and when I turned my fuge light on to check on him he slowly started to open back up. His mouth looked like it was inside out. You can see in the pics it still kinda of stuck out and it slowly all went back inside. I am keeping him in my fuge because I didn't want him to wonder around the DT and die behind a rock. Any ideas as how to proceed or time to flush him. I was kinda of thinking about putting him in a small tuber ware container and floating him in water near the top of my aquarium to see if my lights help him. I have small wattage leds in my sump.

 

[starionesir]

It's fully closed today. Wondering when it's time to flush him and not risk him causing damage to the dt.

 

[garygb]

Could you take a pic of how it's doing now. In the pics it looks salvageable. I would not put it in a tupperware bowl. They need good water circulation and they like to attach their foot in a hole or cave in the live rock.

 

[OrionN]

You have a small BTA. Give him good water condition and he will be just fine.

 

[starionesir]

Here is what he looked like this morning.

 

[starionesir]

He's looked like this for about 2 weeks now. Hasn't gotten any worse really but then again hasn't really gotten any better. He is under my fuge light not my main dt lighting but was more worried about letting him roam free in my dt and craw behind a rock and die.

 

[OrionN]

He looks a little better, his tentacles are longer, if only slightly. Feed him tiny pieces of food, size of mysis shrimp every few days (about 10 of them would be OK each feeding). This will help him recover much faster.

 

[starionesir]

I have tried feeding a couple times with mysis and some seem to stick but others just fall off. My other anemone which is doing fine grabs the stuff right away and you can visually seem him pull the food to his mouth. This guy I don't see doing that but I'll try every couple days to feed him and hopefully he can recover. Why do you think he closes up completely sometimes and I have seen him have his mouth flipped outside then pulls it back in again? Do you think him being in the fuge it bothering him with the lower powered lights?

 

[OrionN]

Take a picture when he is bad. Since he cannot hold on to the food turn off the current when you feed him. He need good light to recover since light is his energy because he cannot eat well

 

[starionesir]

The flow is not alot being he's in the fuge. I do have another light coming in saturday that I'm adding for the fuge but still not sure if thats really enough light. Its a 10 gallon tank he's in with a 10w led flood light but will be adding a second this weekend.

 

[starionesir]

I wouldn't care about moving him to my dt but just worried if he doesn't make it and dies somewhere I can get to him. The dt is 100 gallons with alot of places he could hide.

 

[FraggledRock]

so you're keeping it in your 'fuge without any lights on til you get home and turn the 'fuge light on to look at him?

ummm.....

 

[FraggledRock]

are you feeding it anything?

 

[starionesir]

No the fuge light is lit the opposite of the display tank so I'm looking at him during both periods. Lights on and off. I have also tried leaving the lights on for him all day with observing to see if theres any change as well. Again no change. I've tried everything I can think of. Yes I have tried to feed him mysis a couple different times while I'm feeding everything else in the tank.

 

[starionesir]

And as posted I got him this way and have absolutely no idea how long he has looked this way or what he ever looked like before. He was behind the rocks on the previous owners tank and he had thought the anemone has died so who knows how long it has been since he was ever fed or seen light of any kind.

 

[FraggledRock]

And as posted I got him this way and have absolutely no idea how long he has looked this way or what he ever looked like before. He was behind the rocks on the previous owners tank and he had thought the anemone has died so who knows how long it has been since he was ever fed or seen light of any kind.

ahh gotcha, misread.

yea i dunno.. I would get him in QT in case he dies when youre not around...

 

[starionesir]

Sadly I don't have anymore tanks available. Wish I did but the wife is already mad enough about how many I have know. Between the 4 tanks in the room now she'd never allow a 5th. I guess at this point all I can do is do what I'm doing and watch him each day and if he starts to fall apart scoop him up and flush him. I just don't want to flush him if he could be saved.

 

[FraggledRock]

Sadly I don't have anymore tanks available. Wish I did but the wife is already mad enough about how many I have know. Between the 4 tanks in the room now she'd never allow a 5th. I guess at this point all I can do is do what I'm doing and watch him each day and if he starts to fall apart scoop him up and flush him. I just don't want to flush him if he could be saved.

maybe bring him to a LFS?

maybe they will try to house him and nurse him back?

 

[starionesir]

Problem is lfs near me at freshwater and the only salt is pretty small so I doubt they'd house him for me.

 

[Ztrain]

Problem is lfs near me at freshwater and the only salt is pretty small so I doubt they'd house him for me.

I'd wait it out. If it's still holding on to the rock or the side of the tank then it's still got life left in it. Unless you see it start breaking up..... Also if you don't have a lot of direct flow in your fuge when they die they just fall to the bottom and disintegrate generally. It probably won't nuke your entire tank. Then you vacume them out with a substrate siphon. I found a dead one at a LFS and when they tried to scoop it out it disintegrated and floated everywhere. It was contained till they disturbed the corpse.