BTA looks terrible >:(

Honestly, I would just leave it alone for a bit and not try to feed it anything. Let it be and just watch it. Your anemone looks like it has color and is not bleached out in those pictures. I am not an expert of course, but I sometimes think our worrying and moving it about and trying to have it eat and stuff just stresses them out more.
 
ag09g ... I agree with justthewife, just wait it out and see what happens. It's moved from its rock to a new environment and needs to find a spot where it feels safe enough to settle in. When my RBTA first went in it did the same thing .. deflated and gaped wide, I thought it was dying. I figured there wasn't anything I could do about it so I left it alone. Now, about 2 years later it has become FOUR, dinner-plate sized RTBAs (my clowns are in heaven). This anemone might split due to the move. Just be patient ... and snap a picture for us to see it in the new environment.
 
And here it is today ... that's one-half of a 185 gallon display tank. The color in this picture is kind of washed out but you get the point of how well it "recovered" :)
 

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Your nems look great!

So mine has moved to the very back of the tank, I actually was unable to see it well due to the location, but I went ahead and reached my hand back and was able to take a picture. Thankfully the mouth has closed and it's reinflated!

I have no doubt it will be moving again sometime as its barely getting any light currently, but here's the pic I got of it

I'm really glad it's not shriveled and gaping anymore...I went to bed feeling a little bit ill last night thinking it would die while I slept and crash the tank
 

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From that picture I think it's looking good. Let it settle in and be patient, I bet it pokes it's little head out into the light very soon. If it was a predator I suspect it will recover quickly.
 
Not doing any better or worse than in the other tank, but thankfully has been fully inflated for the past several days. It worked its way up a bit so its facing towards the light, though is still wedged in a back corner under some rocks. Im not entirely sure its getting enough there, though it hasnt moved in two days so I guess its happy...
 
Thats more than likely a good thing. If it was on a steady decline and has stoppped declining since the move thats great news. It prob wont be long before it begins accepting food and making the turn for the better
 
No change...its been a couple weeks now in the new tank, and it looks and acts no different than in the old one. The parameters are spot on, only other inhabitants are a frogspawn, and some mushrooms, two clowns, a blenny and a hamlet. The light is a 250w halide, so theres no reason it shouldnt have started improving if there was a predator or chemical issue in the other tank. I have no idea if its eating or not as its in a super awkward place and the couple pieces I tried to give it were ripped away in the current instantly...

So ya. I had hoped I would have some kind of news by now, but alas, it seems the move has made absolutely no difference!
 
i have a condy that has been deflating one or twice a day now.adding phosphate buffers is the only thing that i have recently changed. mine normally deflates at night. it used to only deflate maybe once a week. maybe you changed something in the system that is causing it to deflate more often. like a minor shock to your tank? just pure speculation.
 
Nope the clowns haven't even looked at it, they have a couple hairy mushrooms they've been living in for the past five years so they pretty much don't move from there haha.

Invertinoob, thanks for the input! All of this began shortly after I moved the nem from my 29g to my 135, so it certainly could be that the move itself shocked it! As far as being caused by additives like in your case though, I literally haven't added anything; no buffer, calcium, anything really. Same story with the 75 it's currently in, nothing but food and RO water have gone into it :/
 
Well, as others have said it may take a while to see any real changes. It could go back to the orginal supposition that the torch encounter is the cause. Maybe as it recovers and grows it will eventually fill back in. I would continue to feed it to make it grow so it will split. The one of my four, that was approximately 12 inches across when fully inflated, looks like it has split. It's behind and under "Nemmie Rock" and it definately looks like 2 separate creatures now... so, that makes five from the original one. I'm gonna need a bigger tank. Would really like to get some Green ones in there. :\
 
Thats the conclusion Im coming to as well, that the torch is the root cause of everything. Its actually amazing to me if thats the case and it was able to do such devastating damage to this poor anemone from getting touched on just one side! This has just been a weird experience all around haha. Unfortunately it does look like it will take many many months if it does end up recovering, which means Im not actually going to get to see it recover since ill be moving...thatll be a lot of hard work I put in to this guy to not even get the reward of watching him get healthy! :(

Haha I hope one day mine is healthy enough to take over my tank like yours has sjwitt!
 
Well, you did the right thing in my book. Are you giving it to another reefer? You need to tell them to keep you updated so you can keep us updated. It would be good information for the forum if we know that a torch coral encounter has the potential to cause this kind of reaction.
 
Haha no no, I'm not giving him away. He's staying put in his tank with my dad, and I'll be moving away. So I'll definitely be able to get updates, they'll just most likely be via a terrible Internet connection!
 
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