Carpet help

Grayhead

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My carpet anemone is not looking well. Feed it about a week ago. It has ben in the tank for 3 weeks now. Was sticky to the touch for 2.5 weeks. I had it sitting out to the side of the tank to acclimate it to the LEDs .I figured it would move to the light. It was still getting as much light as my condy. About Friday, it moved back into the rock a little ways and totally out of the light. I finally moved it out towards the middle of the light source. It does not stick at all. The tentacles are almost flaky. The mouth still looks intact, but just not healthy.

N03 and P04 are undetectable with Salifert
KH is 8.9
Temp is 80
Salinity is 1.026


http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2258467
This is a description of my set up

Please advise
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Here it is after I put it in 3 weeks ago

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Heres the condy for reference
 
To me, it looks like you have a haddoni. I have never had one that did not want to burry it's foot in the sand, when happy. You have no sand in your tank. Even though I do, I like to use a plastic vinegar bottle, or better yet, a tupperware container with smooth edges, fill it with sand, and put anemone in it, and attempt to try to burry the foot in the container. Makes moving them easy, and kind of keeps them put. Also, yours looks like light shock to me. If it was mine, I would tupperware container with sand, and move it to the very edge, just so it gets a little light until it acclimates. It will open when happy-you will be able to tell. Then you can inch it closer to lights. They don't like high flow either. I have found mine are VERY picky with low flow. Mine care more about flow than light (both are important, but has gone with poor light a lot longer than staying put with high flow). Good luck.
 
Not sure how big your tank is, but mixing different anemone's in small tanks have been problems with others before, even though I do it, sometimes, many don't recommend it. It can be done, but they are always happier if they are the only anemone in the system. It will only add more stress for an acclimation.
 
The flow of the tank pushed the sand away from that corner he was in. It was attached to a dead flower pot skeleton, now on the edge of my hammer coral. is there a way to get it healthy again. The LFS said it was a carpet. It opened about 5 inches across when fully extended. Now its only 2 wide
 
I also have an acan that shows signs of tissue receding as does one head of my candy cane. Hope I dont have an under lying issue somewere
 
It look like a sick Haddoni. I would consider:
Large volume change of the water to remove "bad stuff" from the tank, and take the anemone out and treat him with antibiotic. Good luck with him
 
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