Is something wrong with my green bubble tip anemone?

[Willster]

Any recent pics of the nem?

 

[brittanysmith18]

Yes...
I don't know what's wrong.. I started a new thread on this....

All my parameters are perfect...

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a639/Basmith18/image-10.jpg

 

[accordsirh22]

based on that pic alone, id say its a goner. how long has it looked like that?

 

[JaYbIrD1969]

Its not a gonner yet. It still is anchored to the rock which means its alive. It is going in a very bad direction tho. Anemones do not need to be fed to survive. They can remain very healthy by photosynthesis alone. Stop trying to feed it and stop fiddling with the majanos and such and improve your water quality. You have something wrong with your perameters and/or stability. Anemones are not tolerant of poor water quality. You may have a PO4 problem. I think also the sudden introduction of 30# of dry rock was a killer. Your test kits are lying to you. That kind of bioload addition will cause a substancial cycle causing deadly water conditions. You cannot do that without consequences.

 

[Bullet Reef]

Its not a gonner yet. It still is anchored to the rock which means its alive. It is going in a very bad direction tho. Anemones do not need to be fed to survive. They can remain very healthy by photosynthesis alone. Stop trying to feed it and stop fiddling with the majanos and such and improve your water quality. You have something wrong with your perameters and/or stability. Anemones are not tolerant of poor water quality. You may have a PO4 problem. I think also the sudden introduction of 30# of dry rock was a killer. Your test kits are lying to you. That kind of bioload addition will cause a substancial cycle causing deadly water conditions. You cannot do that without consequences.

I agree... you say your params are all fine but what are they? Sometimes params are fine for certain creatures but not others, for instance, anemones don't tolerate high alk well at all where other coral would do fine... also, do you keep a journal for your tank? And how often do you test? Is it possible that you are having swings in your parameters? Stability is very important in a reef tank. I agree that you should stop trying to feed the nem... I never feed mine anymore and they still grow and split the same as they did when I used to feed them. I think you're irritating it even more trying to help it. I hope you can save him

 

[brittanysmith18]

According to my test kit, the alk is at the perfect level, no where near to high. All my corals are doing great. I haven't tested for phosphate though. The only parameter that changes is the salinity from evaporation, but I've very good about fixing it right away, and it moves between 1.022-1.025 over about 2 weeks, not in just a days time, it's fairly slow, but I usually add water before it gets that high and sometimes I'll add more water than before so it'll drop a bit lower. He's looked like that for a few days, and this morning with the light off he was totally bubbled up.. not normal... His sides like bubbled up HUGE and were all wrapped around him, but 5 minutes with the light on, and he went down, and looked like the picture I posted. Flow is good, maybe it's lighting? I know my corals did poorly on the bottom of the tank, and I raised them up higher, and now they look great.... Maybe he needs more light?

 

[OrionN]

That is too big salinity swing. I would at water at least daily. Salinity swing like that are killer for sensitive animals.

 

[velvetelvis]

Its not a gonner yet. It still is anchored to the rock which means its alive. It is going in a very bad direction tho. Anemones do not need to be fed to survive. They can remain very healthy by photosynthesis alone. Stop trying to feed it and stop fiddling with the majanos and such and improve your water quality. You have something wrong with your perameters and/or stability. Anemones are not tolerant of poor water quality. You may have a PO4 problem. I think also the sudden introduction of 30# of dry rock was a killer. Your test kits are lying to you. That kind of bioload addition will cause a substancial cycle causing deadly water conditions. You cannot do that without consequences.

+1, but I do think supplemental feeding (if the anemone will accept it) is important when a stressed, weak anemone is trying to recover. An anemone with stubby tentacles is starving and needs to build back up. However, if the anemone can't or won't eat, trying to push it to eat will only stress it more.

 

[JaYbIrD1969]

Its not a lack of light. The nem would be stretching toward the light if that was the "only" problem. You may not have enough light, if thats true, its just another reason your system isnt ready for a sensitive animal like anemones. As Orion said, your salinity swing is way too much. Fish can tolerate that but not inverts/corals.

do you have algae problems? What other corals do you have that are healthy? Can we see them? We would love to help you save him!!!

 

[brittanysmith18]

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a639/Basmith18/IMG_1717_zps5f5b1c6b.jpg

My corals^^

I do have some algae problems yes. I have a bit of the green fuzzy algae that appears on the sand, but no where else. Red slime algae will come and go every once in while. It usually dies off itself, but sometimes takes awhile. I had an outbreak of it after adding the anemone, and it's dying down now, but there's still some. I have chemiclean for it, but didn't use it in case it would stress out the anemone.

 

[kleen View]

I had em look like that. They bounced back.

 

[OrionN]

What in the pictures above are two pest anemones and two mushroom. These are extremely hardy and you just cannot kill them, sometime even if you want to unless you kill everything on the rock like dry it out or put it in fresh water for a day or two. You cannot use these as guide as to how you tank should be doing. Everything can die and they will be just fine.

This is the last I will say in your two threads. Keep your salinity stable, meaning at least daily top off water. Large water change. If you do this your anemone will recover. BTA are very hardy but they will be worst after you >11% salinity drop yesterday. You added 6 g of fresh water into you 55 g tank to bring the salinity back to "normal".

It is the drop in salinity that is a big problem. Without this drop, the high salinity is not ideal but not a killer. I would have add 1 gal per day for 7 or what ever numbers of day it took until the total volume reach 55 and keep add the evaporated water daily.

There are only a few thing in reef keeping that is a MUST DO for sensitive animal and keep up with evaporation is one of them. Either daily top off or automatic top off system.

I do sound like a broken record. I will not post this on your threads again. Good luck. It just that you keep asking why your anemone is not doing well but never acknowledge that this, salinity change, and perhaps toxic level of trace elements/chemical in your tank (possible contributing reason) is the cause for it.

 

[JohnniG]

Gl mate. Love these bta