Is something wrong with my green bubble tip anemone?

No wonder you don't want to lug around heavy buckets of water! Can you get somebody to help you? Hope you heal up soon.
 
here's a question that may have been covered, but when you make your water, are you using RO/DI or just sink water?
 
bjledbetter said:
Bta's will often hide when first introduced and will roam till they adjust to the light and find a spot where they like.
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Mine did this and crawled behind a rock. I found it a day or two later under some rocks and then put it back on top. Was that bad?
 
No Ro/Di, but I have well water that's filtered through an underground system, so it's basically the same as bottled water, and I never have pH problems or problems with any other elements being in the water.

Thanks! I had joint implants and lost all the muscle in my legs being bedridden for 3 months. No one to help me right now, but I'll manage! Haha.
 
RO/DI is best. There are tanks that do fine on tap water, though it will always be a bit of a gamble as a contaminant may be introduced to the water supply.

Something you might consider is setting a bucket up with a water pump and hose so that you don't have to carry the water.
 
brittanysmith18 said:
No Ro/Di, but I have well water that's filtered through an underground system, so it's basically the same as bottled water, and I never have pH problems or problems with any other elements being in the water.

Thanks! I had joint implants and lost all the muscle in my legs being bedridden for 3 months. No one to help me right now, but I'll manage! Haha.
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I had well water at my parents house. Used it for years. You'd be surprised with what's in it. If you have to use tap, boil it. Let it cool then boil it again, add a tap water treatment and make your water when it cools to room temp.

Or...If possible, get a snap on water filter like those püre things. It makes a huge difference

Good luck on your recovery!
 
Well, like I said, we have an underground filter that most wells don't have. I haven't had any problems in the last three years since using it. I always check before adding it too.
 
Check with your LFS. Lots of them supplement (or make the bulk of) their income by doing tank maintenance. They might be willing to do a short-term contract with you--it's worth looking into, at least.
 
Quite honestly from those pictures that anemone looks good to me. It could have just been expelling waste. I wouldn't worry about it. If you can't do large water changes then do small ones every other day. You have a 55 gallon, right? So you should be doing 10% a week or 20% every two weeks. In a smaller tank like yours, I would be faithful on the water changes because with smaller volume it doesn't take much to throw everything out of whack.
 
My anemone is crawling today. He stayed under the rock for the first week, and now he's crawling out from under it. I have a mushroom coral on this rock and he's literally right next to it now, which sort of scares me..
 
So, my anemone was crawling out to the light, and I did boiling water injections into some majano, which is really close to the anemone. I was careful buy the majano exploded with boiling water (hopefully that kills it) and now my anemone's tentacles shrunk in and some of the tips are a blood red color and some a whitish. It was only after I injected the boiling water that I noticed this. I don't know what this means. I put a couple spirulina flakes on it's tentacles because I fed it the other day, and it reacted to touch, so hopefully it doesn't get hurt.
 
Not to contradict people here but I would not be overly concerned with doing waterchanges at this point if your tank is reading 0 amm 0 nitrite 0 nitrate. Anemones could care a less what your ca/mg/alk levels are for the most part.

The rotten shrimp would release ammonia that with low flow would concentrate to some level next to your anemone, but honestly most of your issues are probably due to the anemone still adjusting.

I would not feed it at this point, let it catch what it catches on its own, you are not going to lose a BTA due to little or no feeding, you may lose one due to feeding something bad or that it doesn't have the energy to digest properly.

I have a 55g with no skimmer (to many other tanks to be concerned enough to put it back in) with 4 decent sized BTA's. I have not done a water change on that tank in 4 months. And while I understand many people do not advise such schedules, with everything within proper parameters I can see little point to doing a water change on that tank.

Granted the only live stock currently in that tank is a longspine sea urchin, and some btas. But with proper maintenance and filteration methods water changes become much less neccessary.

I wouldn't be concerned with your well water, if you have been using it for 3 years without issues I would continue to use it.

Keep an eye on your levels, hold back on feeding it for now until it has settled for you, and give it some time. You should be fine.
 
On that note I have a BTA with 20+ baby clownfish in a 20g (with only 10g of water) with indoor grow lighting above it. No filtration except two pieces of live rock, and an airstone.

It has been perfectly fine for almost two weeks, goes to show how strong BTA's are once they are healthy (mine was captive split).

If you ever do another BTA I would reccomend getting a captive clone, they will always do better then a WC one that has to go through a ton of adjusting.
 
Tmoriarty said:
On that note I have a BTA with 20+ baby clownfish in a 20g (with only 10g of water) with indoor grow lighting above it. No filtration except two pieces of live rock, and an airstone.

It has been perfectly fine for almost two weeks, goes to show how strong BTA's are once they are healthy (mine was captive split).

If you ever do another BTA I would reccomend getting a captive clone, they will always do better then a WC one that has to go through a ton of adjusting.
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Under a grow light? Seems like a recipe for disaster to me. Have pics?
 
It just pooped again tonight. Don't see the white tips, all the I injected lemon juice and literally cut apart the Majanos near it, they released a lot of waste doing that. I'm planning on a water change this weekend. A mild one (10-15%)
 
I will have to link the video later (or you can find my baby thread in this forum) but the picture of my avatar is 30DPH juveniles in an anemone in the 20g tank that I mentioned.

The growlight is T5HO, not low out put lighting, while the spectrum is lower (5k) it is still sufficient to maintain an anemone.

BTA's are quite resilant if they were previously established.
 
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