Dang nem not looking good?

[CoralReeForrest]

He looks happier in the rocks. Maybe he's just acclimating to your tank? How are your parameters?

Happy Easter thanks for the reply, it's a very confusing animal I just don't know how he is. But I've done the smell test and it was fine. Moved him to the rocks yesterday, last night after lights out late he was huge, and that pic was as of an hour ago.

Params are as follows

Params:
SG:1.025
Mag:1350
Alk:8.3
Cal:430
Nitrate:0
Ph:8.3
Ammonia:0


Also did a 5 gallon water change this morning. Tests are as of thismorning as well.

 

[ReneeF]

Happy Easter to you to! Parameters look fine. He's probably just acclimating. When I put mine in my tank, he would expand at night and hide during the photoperiod. It took about a week for him to expand during the day.

 

[CoralReeForrest]

I just keep reading everything saying that if the mouth is open for a longer period of time they are prolly a goners. I'm just stressed about it!!! I'm hoping I get home tonight and he's looking happy

 

[asbauto]

It looks like it might be acclimating to your tank also most new btas like rocks to hide in and find a nice spot to attach... Quick question, do you have any other types of nems in the tank?keep an eye on for a few days and let it do its own thing try not to bother or move it and it might come around

 

[CoralReeForrest]

It looks like it might be acclimating to your tank also most new btas like rocks to hide in and find a nice spot to attach... Quick question, do you have any other types of nems in the tank?keep an eye on for a few days and let it do its own thing try not to bother or move it and it might come around

Thanks auto for the input! All input is welcome! I'm a newb to nems. Not other stuff but def nems, these things are so all over the place! His mouth is now 100 percent shut. No I have no other nems, there is a narly freaking aiptasia but I'm letting it grow big enough to get a good shot at him.
Currently he has been in the rocks where I placed him for 4 days almost, and right now this is what he looks like as of 914 pm western time.

So lights are just on moonlight, and he's looked this way for about 3 hours.

 

[OrionN]

Thanks auto for the input! All input is welcome! I'm a newb to nems. Not other stuff but def nems, these things are so all over the place! His mouth is now 100 percent shut. No I have no other nems, there is a narly freaking aiptasia but I'm letting it grow big enough to get a good shot at him.
Currently he has been in the rocks where I placed him for 4 days almost, and right now this is what he looks like as of 914 pm western time.

So lights are just on moonlight, and he's looked this way for about 3 hours.

 

[dc]

First of all, if you quote or post pictures from tapatalk, go in and hit edit and save and your pictures will show up for everyone else.

Anemones are strange creatures for sure. I think it was over a year before I quit freaking out every time it expelled.

 

[CoralReeForrest]

Dang nem not looking good?

Huh this is what he looked like thismorning with the moonlights on.

Obviously, hopefully anyways, he seems to be doing better?

 

[hijinks]

I skimmed this quick but did you go from MH to LEDs while the anemone was in the tank? If so do you have a light that can be dimmed? If so did you start at like 25% and you generally increase a week at a time

 

[Isladelmar]

Mine looked like that when my ph went down to 7.7 when my lady was baking a cake in the winter when there was no fresh air coming in .

 

[CoralReeForrest]

He's looking pretty good tonight. And no I bought him from a store. He was in MH he's now under my photon LEDs. They are programmable and I have turned them down to ramp up to literally only 10 percent.. I feel like he's doing ten fold better! Will continue to monitor closely of course. But I feel he was acclimating to the lighting. We shall see.

 

[Reefahholic]

I think he was acclimating as well. If he were sick, he would go down and stay down. Most Nems other than gigs and mags have done pretty well for me. Just let him adjust to the new light and tank water.

 

[mcfa2403]

I think your BTA is fine he is just expelling waste and is stressed. In the first picture he looks a little bleached and I would suspect that he was a relatively new arrival at the LFS. When anemones are shipped it is often without water in the bag so as to avoid the anemone expelling waste in the bag and reabsorbing it continuously. What often happens is once they reach the store they are then trying to expel any remaining waste that has built up and the tank at the LFS may have been slightly fouled if they kept several new ones in one tank or perhaps if you had a long trip getting it home it may have once again absorbed excess waste. What yours is doing is probably a sort of cleansing process. (This is 100% a guess based on my experience with shipping processes and the fact that nems inflate by absorbing water into their tissue)

IME a mouth gaping is not a sign of imminent death but rather a sign of stress. Yours doesn't appear to be wandering and the foot seems to have a good grip so you are probably in the clear. Lighting might have induced some of the stress but yours seems to have not had color issues while acclimating so I don't know if that would be my focus. based on your rocks and the small coral colonies the tank looks relatively young so I would focus more on maintaining water parameters than lighting. It looks like about a 30g tank so the 5g water change was about 15% which is what I would likely do weekly while your tank and nem stabilize. I have a hard time believing nitrates are truly zero with the amount your anemone is expelling in that size tank (test kits can be wrong) but assuming they are phosphates can still negatively impact BTA so frequent water changes in that size and young tank it can't hurt especially if you plan to target feed the nem.

Just my 2 cents take it for what it is

 

[CoralReeForrest]

I think your BTA is fine he is just expelling waste and is stressed. In the first picture he looks a little bleached and I would suspect that he was a relatively new arrival at the LFS. When anemones are shipped it is often without water in the bag so as to avoid the anemone expelling waste in the bag and reabsorbing it continuously. What often happens is once they reach the store they are then trying to expel any remaining waste that has built up and the tank at the LFS may have been slightly fouled if they kept several new ones in one tank or perhaps if you had a long trip getting it home it may have once again absorbed excess waste. What yours is doing is probably a sort of cleansing process. (This is 100% a guess based on my experience with shipping processes and the fact that nems inflate by absorbing water into their tissue)

IME a mouth gaping is not a sign of imminent death but rather a sign of stress. Yours doesn't appear to be wandering and the foot seems to have a good grip so you are probably in the clear. Lighting might have induced some of the stress but yours seems to have not had color issues while acclimating so I don't know if that would be my focus. based on your rocks and the small coral colonies the tank looks relatively young so I would focus more on maintaining water parameters than lighting. It looks like about a 30g tank so the 5g water change was about 15% which is what I would likely do weekly while your tank and nem stabilize. I have a hard time believing nitrates are truly zero with the amount your anemone is expelling in that size tank (test kits can be wrong) but assuming they are phosphates can still negatively impact BTA so frequent water changes in that size and young tank it can't hurt especially if you plan to target feed the nem.

Just my 2 cents take it for what it is

75 gallon tank, 5 months old just a about. Everything has been doing great. He looks nice as of thismorning however ibrealized last night he was not attached to rock or anything in the spot he has been and I touched his foot and it did not feel sticky much at all. Kind of worries be, but he's not moving at all and again he seems to be open and happy so maybe he just doesn't want to attach?

 

[CoralReeForrest]

Idk he shrunk up into a ball last night. Was still shrunk up thismorning, hopefully he hasn't died with me being gone all day. Idk why he is bleaching like his foot seems to be. Maybe stress? I have my lights turned down as much as can be. Maybe I need to turn the blues a ton down as well. Hopefully I get home to him doing well!