Gilgamesh
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Hi all. Here's my situation. I have two anemones that I believe are RBTAs (I actually never was able to confirm this, the original one was a tiny hitchhiker on some live rock I bought on Craigslist and it grew enormous and eventually split). They were living in a tank at my ex's place until I could afford my own tank, and they were really flourishing there, with one of our clownfish hosting in each.
End of May, ex and I broke up. Now that I have my own tank and am ready to move all the livestock over, I went by to check things out and found that in spite of what he had told me about "taking care" of them, the water hasn't been maintained in 3 months and the nems are totally bleached. :headwalls: He was feeding them defrosted raw table shrimp about once a week, and keeping the salinity and temperature stable enough for the fish to be okay at least, but definitely wasn't doing the kind of diligent water changes and maintenance I had been doing previously. The parameters are probably totally whacked out at this point.
After discovering this today, I have read whatever I can find about caring for bleached nems, but I don't know what to do next. Some sources say they will be stressed further by changing water parameters. But they look terrible where they are now, and moving them to my new (clean) tank will definitely be a change in terms of params. Will this benefit them or stress them out even more? I want to do whats best for them, but also need to consider all my other livestock that share a tank with them, as they would be poisoned should the nems die from the stress of the changes.
Just fyi, the nems are still large (not retracted or anything), still accepting food readily, but the tentacles are much thinner/stringier than they were before and they have gone almost entirely see through. They are under the same lighting under which they flourished before: 4 x 54w t5's.
I appreciate any advice you may have... thanks guys. Sorry for the long post.
End of May, ex and I broke up. Now that I have my own tank and am ready to move all the livestock over, I went by to check things out and found that in spite of what he had told me about "taking care" of them, the water hasn't been maintained in 3 months and the nems are totally bleached. :headwalls: He was feeding them defrosted raw table shrimp about once a week, and keeping the salinity and temperature stable enough for the fish to be okay at least, but definitely wasn't doing the kind of diligent water changes and maintenance I had been doing previously. The parameters are probably totally whacked out at this point.
After discovering this today, I have read whatever I can find about caring for bleached nems, but I don't know what to do next. Some sources say they will be stressed further by changing water parameters. But they look terrible where they are now, and moving them to my new (clean) tank will definitely be a change in terms of params. Will this benefit them or stress them out even more? I want to do whats best for them, but also need to consider all my other livestock that share a tank with them, as they would be poisoned should the nems die from the stress of the changes.
Just fyi, the nems are still large (not retracted or anything), still accepting food readily, but the tentacles are much thinner/stringier than they were before and they have gone almost entirely see through. They are under the same lighting under which they flourished before: 4 x 54w t5's.
I appreciate any advice you may have... thanks guys. Sorry for the long post.
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