Anemone straight up not having a good time

[Scolyosis]

Two weeks ago I picked up an anemone from my LFS, I was told it is a long tentacle anemone but it looked very bubblish to me. It was in a PVC pipe and was very large looking. Anyway the anemone is blue with an orange foot and will do anything to be out of sight and in the dark, when in the dark the anemone is bend over in half, looking very sluggish and basically dead. I have pulled him out of the dark a couple times and it doesn't take very long for him to walk right back into the abyss. This has been a fight since I brought it home and at this point it just looks miserable.

My tank is a 32 gallon biocube
pH: 8.2
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2
Power-heads are off and out of the tank.
I even upgraded my light to the Steve's LEDs because I could tell right away the light wasn't enough, now I have this awesome light and anemone that could give 2 ####'s

Here are some pics, any ideas? I hate moving it, I know they go where they want but I feel like I'm watching a suicide

 

[bradleym]

I don't see any pictures, but a blue anemone with an orange foot sounds like it may be dyed. If so, even the most perfect conditions may not save it. Please work on posting pictures before I get too carried away with my assumption though.

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[Scolyosis]

I am trying to figure out how.... hang on a sec

 

[Scolyosis]

Trying from tapatalk

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[bradleym]

OK, so the good news is, it's not dyed. Glad you posted pictures.

Can you tell us a bit more about your tank? What is your alkalinity? How long has the tank been set up?

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[ThRoewer]

Better pictures would be needed for a definitive ID, but this is for sure not an LTA (Macrodactyla doreensis). Most likely it is a very unhappy BTA.

 

[Scolyosis]

Tank has been up for about 5 months, I am not sure on the alk, I do not have the test on hand. I have fed the anenome twice it just seems to hate the light. There are 2 clowns and a fire fish, a few misc corals.

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[Scolyosis]

On the move again?

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[Uncle99]

Nems get really PO when you move them. He will move on his own to a place he likes, you have no control if this.
In 5 months, usually water is not stable enough for this creature, but be patient, forget the feeding, once a month at most is quite sufficient.

I really don't know where this feed multiply times comes from, in fact, this can be detrimental to the nems Heath.

 

[Scolyosis]

Thanks for the timely responses. Here are some parameters I ran to the store quick so I could test alk

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[Scolyosis]

First day with dimmer lighting, not convincing. Figured I'll keep this updated, good or bad

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[Scolyosis]

A step in the right direction

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[ThRoewer]

How did the anemone look like at the store? Were the tentacles longer or short as now?

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[Scolyosis]

The tentacles in the store were definitely longer and more of a bubble shape, like more full looking. The anemone was in a 6" tall PVC pipe and it was stretched out with tentacles sticking out of the top

 

[ThRoewer]

I'm pretty sure it's a BTA.

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[Scolyosis]

I'm hoping it is it looked beautiful in the shop hopefully it'll pull through. It was looking much larger this morning in the dark. I will post a follow up Pic when I'm out of work this afternoon

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[Scolyosis]

Great... At what point do I remove this thing if it's a ticking time bomb?

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[Scolyosis]

Just sprayed it off with a turkey baster got some mucus off, the mouth is tightly closed

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[Scolyosis]

Playing with my emotions

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[NYCBOB]

Just leave it alone.