Anenome ID and health Question

[Dsotto]

I have had this anemone for about 5 months now. I bought it as a hosting pair with some black ice clowns. After I got it from the LFS it tripled in size and looked amazing! I had a algae problem and cut back an hour on my lights. It quickly has started to look wilted. I turned the lights back up that hour but it doesn't appear to be coming back. Any ideas as to what's going on? Also an ID of this thing?

First photo is at the LFS in a Bio Cube.



Second, third, and forth photos are how it looked in my tank 3 months into having it.







The last 2 are how it looks now.





A little more info about the tank. Tank is 1 1/2 years old. Nothing has changed since I've had the anemone. Flow is the same, chemistry is the same, temp, feeding schedule. The only thing that changed was the amount of algae in the tank and the 1 hour I cut the lights down. Any help would be appreciated. I paid a good little bit for this pair so I'm hoping it's not dying. Also another side note is I have a green carpet that is lower in the tank and doing amazing. got about 2 months after this one. Thanks again!

 

[ocellaris123]

Looks like E. quadricolor (bubble anemone). What are you tank parameters? and what are you feeding? What kind of lights?

The carpet may have something to do with the anemones appearence. Some species dont play nice together and may fight via allelopathy, but of course you will find people who mix the two species together and have no problems. Try running some carbon to help.

 

[shifty51008]

Im saying bta also from the stripes around the mouth

 

[OrionN]

You have a BTA.
I don't think the light is the cause of this anemone problem. I think it is the water. I would do large volume water change.
The algae problem is not light in cause either but likely poor water condition and high nutrient, nitrate and phosphate.
You also have a Haddoni carpet in the tank, how is it?

What do you feed it? Bad food can really cause an anemone go south quickly.

I would do 50%+ water change several days in a roll and your tank should go back to normal. make sure you age the water at least 24 hrs. Temp and salinity match.

Good luck

 

[Dsotto]

Thanks guys! I discovered my RO filters needed to be changed so I am in that process now. The algae is sucking up all of the phosphates and nitrates. Water chemistry is as follows.

Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 0
PH 8.0
Salinity 1.025
Phosphates 0
calcium 440
Alk 10
Not sure about Magnesium. Ordered a test kit but not here yet. I dose Magnesium with the Auquavitro line once a week.

As far as food I just feed mysis shrimp. I feed the anemones 1-2 times per week. Been doing this for the full 5 months since I got it. The owner of the LFS said he does mysis as apposed to larger shrimp due to anemones not always digesting larger shrimp and regurgitating half of the shrimp.

The lights that are on the tank are the Coralife t-5's with original bulbs. The light is about 5 months old now. I'm assuming the bulbs are about due for a change.

I also run carbon and GFO in a Nextreef reactor. I change that out every 2 months. I'm thinking of getting another reactor and separating the carbon and GFO. I ordered new of both due to the RO/DI filter age. Thanks for the ID help as well.