is my lta done for?

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NickP123

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got the lil guy about a week ago. has looked extremely healthy and happy until late this afternoon. it has shriveled up to about a 1/4 of it's size. what do you guys think? these two pics were just taken. the lights have been off for about an hour and a half. all parameters are good salinity is about 1.025. temp is steady at 80 degrees. let me know what you think. lighting is 150w mh on left side of tank and 250w mh on right side. nem is on the left. tank has been up for long time
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What do you feed it? Has it ever attached itself to the bottom of the tank? How often do you do water changes? Do you run carbon in this tank?
 
I've only fed it a few shrimp pellets which it did eat, it was attached to a rock or the sand in front of it I honestly couldn't tell. I do water changes every 2 to 3 weeks about 10 gallons. I don't run carbon in my tank.
 
I would do an extra water change, and put a bag of carbon in the tank. Shrimp pellets? Try feeding it small pieces of raw shrimp, scallops,krill, mysis shrimp or squid..just about any kind of raw sea food will do. Putting carbon in the tank and weekly 10% water changes always makes my purple lta really happy. I also feed mine once a week. I hope yours will recover..only thing I can recommend is water changes and carbon...What kind of water movement is the anemone getting?
 
it's not getting direct flow but it is getting some water movement. it is about a 10" below a rio 1400 I use as a wavemaker. the return is on the other side of the tank flowing across the top half of the tank run by a mag 12 at full blast. the way I have it set up now the flow is kinda circular the rio is pointed down at about a 45 and the return flows directly towards it. I'll go put some carbon in now and I'll do a water change in the morning. let me know if I should adjust my flow. thanks for the quick info.
 
Have you tried burying its foot in the sandbed? Every LTA that I have had preferred having its foot in the sandbed. How deep is yours? Also, is the month tightly closed?

You can see it this older picture that both of mine had their foot in the sandbed, attached to the bottom glass of the tank.

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it's maybe buried about a half inch into the sand bed(at the most) should I try burying it more? my sand bed is around 2 or 3 inches deep. I'm assuming I should wait a bit to see if it reinflates before I try to bury it deeper. this sux I've been able to successfully keep so many things successfully(clams, sps, lps) but nems never seem to work out. I always acclimate them right and I almost always get the same result. hopefully this one will come back
 
Should be buried all the way into it. Have found that a healthy one will bury itself, but helping isn't going to hurt either. And if you can try to have the sand a bit deeper in that spot, that would be better.

Since you state that you have had issues with anemone in the past, could you state all your parameters ( with numbers ) and what type of filtration you are using. Heck, even what fish you have, just anything you can think of.
 
Did you already pull the anemone out of your tank? Are you sure it was dead?..if it is dead, it will be falling apart and be really stinky. I hope you didn't pull the plug on this anemone too soon. I thought it looked like it might recover, since it didn't look like there were any tears in the foot. Maybe it was just me being hopeful...what do you think toddrtrex? Do you think it might have had a chance to recover just by looking at the pictures?
 
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it was falling apart, it looked like a pile of snot, I don't understand what went wrong. all the parameters were in check and all the corals, fish and inverts look great.
 
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