Hello all. I've been lurking on RC for awhile and need some advice from experienced anemone keepers. I have a 30g tank that has been running for 1.5-2 years now with a pair of ocellaris clowns in it. A week ago I added a 4" gbta to the tank and it was doing great. It ate two small meals of krill during that time. Last night when I got home from work that anemone was shrunken down like it had deflated everyday this week to expel waste however it was different. The anemone's mouth was wide open instead of being tightly closed like before and it had white threads coming from the mouth which seemed to me that it was expelling it's guts and dying. So I prepared some emergency water to remove it from the tank and do a wc in the morning. When I awoke this morning the anemone was looking great. Mouth was closed fully inflated and expanded. Tank equipment is aquac remora skimmer, 4x24W T5 lighting, ~20lbs LR. I did the wc and everything appears to be normal. So far i've left the anemone in the tank with emergency water at the ready. Any thoughts from experienced anemone keepers? Was it just acting funny or past the point of no return?
dying GBTA?
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patriots81
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That is strange. But you said that it appears to be normal now. Does it looke like its melting or something like that?
patriots81
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that is possible.
Coral Hind
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It sounds like it deflatted/retracted enough that you could see the septal filaments. The good news is that it is now back to normal with a closed mouth.
Newly introduced anemones will tend to expel some zoonanthellae when first introduced to aquarium lighting and that might have happened here. Once adapted to the lighting this stops. This explains why sometimes people don't understand why waste is coming out when they haven't fed their new anemone yet.
Do you have any cleaner shrimp in the tank? Sometimes the shrimp can be hard on the anemone, tearing small holes when they go in to feed on the anemone's waste.
Newly introduced anemones will tend to expel some zoonanthellae when first introduced to aquarium lighting and that might have happened here. Once adapted to the lighting this stops. This explains why sometimes people don't understand why waste is coming out when they haven't fed their new anemone yet.
Do you have any cleaner shrimp in the tank? Sometimes the shrimp can be hard on the anemone, tearing small holes when they go in to feed on the anemone's waste.
clowns101
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I agree with Coral Hind sounds like he is just adjusting to the tank.If he has only been in the tank for less than a month he has some settling to do.I think that the Bubble Tip is just being a Bubble Tip.I would try some mysis though befor I went to a larger meal like krill or any other foods that may be bigger than a pea.
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