First BTA, some questions

[ScienceAchieved]

MomI purchased my first anemone about a week and a half ago. It looked like it was gonna implode for a couple hours, wandered around a little, and has been planted and hosting a maroon clown since the second day. My first question-why are the tentacles stringy in appearance? I read that the tentacles stretch and the disc opens when it's hungry or not getting enough light. It's about 20" below 2 150w 20k's and 4 48" t5hos, 2 giesseman lagoon blues, an actinic and a 14k. I fed it 2 little pieces of krill today , it ate, then became more stretched out. It had the typical bubble tip appearance when it was hiding under a rock the first day without much light. It's also in a decent amount of current.
other questions are, how far can it sweep? I moved everything about 6" away from the tips, a palm clavularia and a hammer still got stung pretty bad. What's the probability of recovery?
sg-1.025
ph-8.2
alk-8.5
calc-450
mag-1350
temp-80
no detectable nutrients.
here's before I fed it this morning

here's after feeding, very stretched

is this healthy? Also, it didn't look so great, and was under low light at the pet shop I picked it up from, shriveled and upside down

 

[m0nkie]

I don't think you are going to find your mom on this forum

anyways.. your anemone looks healthy to me. a little bleached, but it will regain its green later.

Bubble or not bubble is pretty random. Nobody knows why. I think it's fine where it is. If it needs more light, it will move on its own.

If you feed, the BTA will grow larger. Some BTA gets over a foot long, so anything around is toast. It does not require food to survive. Your clown will probably bring food back and anemone will steal it.

The hammer might be a goner.. my wall hammers all died from BTA sting. Branching hammer survived with the other heads

 

[ScienceAchieved]

Lol stupid autocorrect. I wish my mom was on this forum. "You bought ANOTHER one of those things?! You need to find a less demanding hobby.." " Mom, you have 8 flower gardens around the yard and spend about 3 hours a week weeding, which may have contributed to the fluid retention in your knees...". She needs a reef tank instead. Thanks for responding. Everytime I get something I've never kept, I tend to think it's gonna die for the first couple weeks.