New Blue Haddoni help

[boltzfan]

Hey there, heres my new blue haddoni. Been in tank about a week, attached foot right away, has ate food when fed, and inflates pretty much all the time. Only issue im having is the open mouth issue. Never been fully closed since arrival, but has gotten smaller and larger during different times. Heres a couple pics from tonight. Is there anything I can do? Just hope for the best. Theres also something coming out of the mouth currently, the clown is trying to pick at it, what is this?

Tank backround, 150g tank newly transferred into from 75g tank that was 1 1/2 old.
Specs
Salinity 1.025
temp 80
calcium is high for some reason now at 470ish
alk at 7-8 dkh
mag at 1280 or so and dosing
nitrite- 0
nitrate-0
phos-0
ammonia-0
have 3 175w 20k mh 4 48"t5h0 and led moonlights. Since anemone was introduced i reduced mh lighting to 4 hrs per day and slowly going to increase.
Have little coral population currently, and a rba on the opposite side of the tank housed by 2 true percs. 2 koralia 1300 hydors on wavetimer and 1hp pool pump for return, water flow is good.

Please experts let me know what you think the condition and prognosis may be, Im worried about the mouth, ive waited a long time to aquire this specimen and want to keep it happy and healthy!

 

[WaffleWalffle22]

Bring the temp down to 78F and bump up the dKH to 9, but dose very little and slowly bring it up. Keep your parameters super stable. How often do you feed? If you don't feed it, feed it. If you feed it a lot, back down on the feedings.

 

[boltzfan]

This past week i have fed 3 times including tonight, all times with silverside about a 1/4 inch or smaller square. Be happy to drop the temp (have a chiller on the tank as well), but was told they like higher temps?

 

[boltzfan]

Oh and when I dropped the silverside tonight he seemed very sticky, so thats a good sign, just worried about the discharge and mouth thing. But ill go test the alk right now and dose accordingly, these tests were from 2 nights ago, aside from temp and salinity of course those were tonight.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I wouldn't worry about the temp at all - - I have kept mine from 76* to 84* with no issues.

I would stop using silversides -- myself and other very experienced anemone keepers have had issues with them; I lost an anemone to using them.

The mouth protruding like that isn't a good sign. It hasn't gotten to the point to where all hope is lost, but would keep a very close eye on it. At this point I would do a couple of largish water changes two days in a row and run fresh carbon.

 

[boltzfan]

What would you recommend I feed and from where. Also, I have fresh carbon running in both sumps, will do a water change tomorrow, I do 25-40g water changes weekly.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I wouldn't feed it until the mouth stays tightly closed. Since the silverside incident I have always used frozen (( thawed )) krill and have had great results.

How fresh? If more then 2 days old, I would still switch out the carbon.

 

[boltzfan]

How often should i switch out the carbon after that, do it every 2 days?

 

[Toddrtrex]

Yeah, I would switch it out every 2 days until you start to see improvement -- if at all.

 

[boltzfan]

You think it looks that bleak?

 

[Toddrtrex]

I have seen a lot worse, and similar -- just don't want to make any promises.

But, to make you feel better,

Started like this;

Went to this; (( the stringy stuff is from me cleaning the sump ))

 

[boltzfan]

Ill update tomorrow, thank you.

 

[this is me]

The temp is fine. I keep mine at 80. There's nothing wrong with those numbers of your tank. The new haddoni just need dome time to adjust.
Nice blue! Keep us updated on the progress.

 

[Toddrtrex]

I have seen a lot worse, and similar -- just don't want to make any promises.

But, to make you feel better,

Started like this;

Went to this; (( the stringy stuff is from me cleaning the sump ))

I shouldn't post after going out to eat -- this is the picture that I meant as the second one, showing the recovery

 

[MelloW33]

Did I read that you have true percs hosting a RBTA? I also see what looks like a black ocellaris in the first pic of the haddoni. Am I right? You shouldn't have more than a pair of clowns in there.

 

[boltzfan]

Why not? I have successfully had 2 different pairs of clowns in the same tank many times.

 

[ocellaris123]

Why not? I have successfully had 2 different pairs of clowns in the same tank many times.

They usually fight if you have more than one pair

Your haddoni looks pretty stressed (most likely shipping related stress), it is a good sign that it eats, but same advice as toddrtrex, don't feed until the mouth closes completely.