Any chance of survival?

[pinkneyss]

My new bubble tip made it's way up the rocks & about 3 feet across the back of the glass right into a power head. About half of it is gone. It's mouth is still there, but it's kind of just hanging there & not really attached to the body. What was left still looked good Sunday, but yesterday it moved down into the shade & deflated. Should I remove it before it dies or is there a chance it might recover?

 

[Doni]

I would give it a chance to recover. A healthy bta will recover from such damage. To be safe, monitor your water for ammonia spikes twice daily and remove the anemone if it rises.

 

[smp]

Mine did this, but it was a very healthy anemone and it survived.
Let this be a lesson, cover those powerheads and overflows.
Whatever you do, just leave it alone, don't move it, don't touch it. If it will take food, feed it.

 

[pinkneyss]

Thanks for the advice. I'm going to leave it alone for now. I went to every LFS in Houston & picked the best looking one. Hopefully it will be strong & healthy enough to recover. Are the any signs I can watch for that will tell me if it's hopeless & needs to be removed?

 

[mallyk]

My rose bulb anenome did this when I first got it.. It was trying to find a comfterable spot in the tank and got to close to the powerhead. It was shredded.... It looked like a stringy pile of puke by the time I got home and noticed it was like that.

I unpluged the powerhead, and put the powerhead w/ the shredded anenome in my 10g coral QT tank, and let the anenome come out of the powerhead on it's own. It stayed deflated for weeks, and I thought it was going to die, but within a few months it pulled itself back together, and lived.

I offered food, ocassionally it took it, sometimes it didn't. I made sure to keep the QT tank perameters perfect.

Good luck, and hopefully it pulls through!