Help! Is our Anemone dying???

[LiseBrown]

Hello,

This is my first post here, I was hoping for some advice on our Anemone.

We have had our tank running for just over a year, and added our first anemone, along with a hosting Mei Thai Clown 6 weeks ago. It has been fine, happy, looking lovely, until a couple of weeks ago. It decided to move around the back of the tank, for the most part we were still able to *just* see it, and could see the clown hanging round there all the time. Then in the last week it has moved further back. Yesterday we have to take our tank pretty much apart to capture a very agressive damsel that had been living in a segregated area of the tank but had escaped, so we rescaped at the same time, and bought the anemone back to the front. It was very shrivelled up and a bit different looking. It was still attached to rock, but trying to move. I took a photo (in this post) and later in the evening I could see it had moved on the rock, this morning we couldnt find it. We have just got a mirror in the tank and found it at the back, on the sand, looking white and bleached out, but bigger and puffier than last night. My husband has put it back on the front rocks, and I took the photo. What should we do? Is it dying? I am so frightened it will die and wipe out my tank! Which I what I seem to read when I google :/

Any help appreciated. I am adding some pics, 2 of the first day we got it and one from last night, and one just now.

Thanks in advance,

Lise

 

[rt67ghy]

It got stressed when you rescaped your rocks. Nems are like that they don't like it if you do any major work in the tank. It became white because when they're very stressed they release the zooaxanthellae algae that they have in their skin and which gives them their colour. Nems move around in a tank until they find a spot they like which depends on flow and light. I wouldn't touch/move it because it won't like it and will only increase the stress. If it's left alone it may recover.

 

[addictedreefer]

You have a magnifica anemone - one of the hardest to keep. And it is in serious trouble. Need parameters as follows: lighting, flow, tank size, ph, temp, salinity, alk, ammonia, nitrate and phosphate.