New BTA with mouth open

[ssavader]

I don't have a new pic of my BTA and here is why. Late in the week he was really looking ill. Deflated and listless, with his foot coming off the rock he was on. I was sure by this am he would be dead. This morning, he was gone! After looking around for a gooey mess, I found him in a deep cave next to where he was originally placed. I painstakingly took part of the reef apart to get him, and low and behold, his foot was squarely attached to the rock and his tentacles were partially inflated. I could not see his mouth, but now in the cave, it will be impossible to feed him (he will get some light through the "skylight" in the cave's roof).

So, do I try feeding him through the roof or let him re-emerge after getting hungry or light starved?

 

[k9gunner]

I lost mine when it did that. I could not get to it to feed it.

Try changing / increasing flow to coax it out. It will need fed and light, or it will go downhill fast.

 

[garygb]

For the time being, I would leave it alone. How difficult would it be to leave the rock it is attached to alone and move the rocks that are impeding light and access by you for feeding? If it's not trouble, then it might be good to move the rock if the anemone hasn't moved on its on in 3 or 4 days.

 

[ssavader]

Gary, it would not be tragic to move some rocks around, just a royal PITA! I will have to go home tonight and start making some plans in case he does not come out by Thursday. Thx.

 

[garygb]

Yeah, that sounds good. The important thing is not move the anemone, just other rocks that might be obscuring the light. Anemones can be annoying can't they. lol. I can't recall what kind of light you have, but the anemone could be shying away from the lights by getting under the rocks. Even relatively weak lighting is strong to an anemone that may have been in transit and a lfs tank under very subdued/old lights. So, I'm sure it may be somewhere in this long thread, but again what kind of lighting do you have?