Need urgent help!!!!

[jmowbray]

So I woke up this morning with my GBTA in my powerhead. His "arms" some not all are cut off and floating around the tank. The mouth appears to be inverted but it's still moving. I scooped him up and put him in a clear plastic deli container that I magnetized to the wall. I didn't want to let it die and kill everything in the tank. Some of the surface tissue looks questionable. Therefore, I took a razor and divided it I hope this wasn't to must stress. But I was hoping that It would potentially save a better half versus the whole thing dieing. I fragged them around 2 this afternoon and now 4 hours later is has wrapped around but I don't think the halfs fused. I also don't want to re introduce them into the tank.

I guess I'm wondering how much water movement they need. As currently they are getting none in the container. I plan on swapping out 90% of the water in the morning than again when I get home at 5. Is these fine?

 

[jmowbray]

Here's some pictures of them. They are starting to look better. I did a WC on the tank and withing 30mins after what tentacles they have are inflated. The mouth area still looks bad. I'm going to set my alarm for every two hours and getup and check on them. I can't afford to have them kill everything. I lowered the lip of the container to let in fresh water so we'll see what happens.

 

[jccaclimber]

I've never cut my nems, but I've had them split due to various things (generally a large WC). On two occasions I wanted to see how they did without feeding, so I avoided feeding one of the smaller ones (no fish in the tank, so feeding them is the only nutrient input). Both times they died, but before doing so looked inverted and the color of play sand for 24-48 hours before turning to mush.

Note, they turn a similar color at the split line when they divide, but then wrap up and heal within a week (may be faster).

 

[OrionN]

you need to have fairly good circulation to the anemone so it heal.. BTA will not kill the tank if it died. In a still basket, it just get stagnant and get infected and will not live.
Put the frags in a porous basket and him heal himself

 

[jccaclimber]

^Probably worth noting that the two times I did let the small nems (1.5") die in my tank (14g biocube) there weren't any negative reactions from the other nems or corals (softies and frogspawn).