hmello@bermexin
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Yuppers, agreed.
My yellow H. Malu finally moved and looks limp-ish
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Yuppers, agreed.
jacobzking
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SwampyBill
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Yea, sorry, it doesn't look good...How's it smelling? If kinda funky or foul-smelling, I'd take it out & run some fresh carbon...
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jacobzking
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i just pulled it out to give it the smell test. my sinuses are really jacked up, but I couldn't smell anything at all. just smelled like saltwater. when I pulled him out though, there was sort of a clear milky slime coming out of him. i put him back in the tank and this is what he looks like now...
also, i did see one yellow tentacle floating in the water after putting him back in.
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SwampyBill
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Got your pm, Jacob. that anemone looks like a goner to me; personally, I'd pull it out & run fresh carbon on the tank.
SkullV
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Yep, if it's detached, deflated, and shedding tentacles it's time to get rid of it.
jacobzking
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what do you think could have killed it? it looked fine the first week.
jacobzking
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i took it out of the tank and put it in a bowl with some DT water and it started to fall apart. not horribly stinky yet.
on a better note, that LTA has green tips now and looks like a BEAST of a LTA
on a better note, that LTA has green tips now and looks like a BEAST of a LTA
SkullV
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The stress of being dyed and moved most likely killed it. That along with the fact that you have a different species of anemone with it (possible chemical warefare) in a fairly new tank.
Glad the LTA is doing well though. I would stick with that one Nem for a while and concentrate on getting rid of the Crypt in your system. Trust me, I just had my whole FOWLR (literlly every fish) wiped out by a Crypt outbreak.
jacobzking
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when I pulled it out, it dyed my finger yellow a little. guess it was definitely dyed then?
SkullV
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I would say so!
SwampyBill
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It's typical for an anemone to look ok when 1st transferred to our tanks, then go downhill from there in short order (esp. in a new tank...) I'll bet that anemone was bleached, not doing well to begin with (& probably the reason it was dyed); it was added to a month old system not mature enough for anemones; then blasted with halide lighting right away w/ no acclimation. Most likely a combination of all 3...
Water parameters in new tanks fluctuate alot while the system is building it's bioload, & aren't stable or mature enough to support an anemone. There's reasoning behind why it's recommended to NOT add an anemone to a tank under 6 mos old...:reading:
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jacobzking
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tank was about 3 months old, very stable params. FWIW my bleached LTA looks like it should be a show contestant after a few weeks of TLC... it was added to my tank at 6 weeks old.
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