Nursing a bleached/dyed anemone to health??

[Chi6488]

Last week I decided to give it another try at carpet. The LFS is about and hour away and I was advised it was a green carpet. Got the the LFS and it was bleached with tints of yellow I suspect is dye. It was open and around 8 inch in diameter. It had good stickiness so I decided to give it a shot or longshot. I take good care of my tank and it has sufficient lighting.



Question I have is when it shrinks it really shrinks. I fed it a small piece of shrimp smaller than its mouth yesterday. Started Friday evening it shrinks about 1-2 times a day and looks like it is dying and then an hour or two later is is back to its normal self. I do see some minor "poop" but I have not fed it anything until yesterday and it was purchased wednesday. I don't think it is expeling ZOA due to it being so bleached.

I feel like it is getting some hints of green but maybe my imagination.

 

[Sangogo]

I have a bleached carpet in my tank which I'm slowly raising back to health. In my experience, regaining color takes far more than a week. The tips were very blue, but I only noticed how white the body was when I got home. This anemone also shrinks down once or twice a day to "omg, it's dying" proportions only to completely perk up later. It is bigger than when I first purchased it and has managed to gain back a lot of brown, but I'm nowhere close to the safe zone yet. I don't direct feed weakened anemones (despite what people say), because in all cases where I have, the anemone didn't make it. Mine have been sticky enough still that they can catch excess food. I don't have any experience with dyed anemones, but either way, this requires a lot of patience. And the likelihood that they make it is pretty slim, sad to say.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Are you acclimating it to your lights?
What lights do you have?
What size tank?
What are your parameters -- with numbers

When you say that it looks like it is dying, does its mouth become open/inverted?
Basically, does it ever look like this,

 

[kg221]

I'm having issues with my green carpet anemone also, and it looks exactly like the one in the pic. Is there anything I can do to save it?

 

[Toddrtrex]

Depends -- if it is getting worse, and then better, then worse...it is on a downward spiral. Can you get a picture?

The one pictured above would go from;

to,

To this, over the course of an hour or so -- after a day if this it was a goner,

HOWEVER, the following one only look like this, and is dong great now -- When I saw this I did a 10 gallon water change (( 75 gallon tank )) and put in fresh carbon, and it picked right up. Should note, that this one had just been put in the tank after being shipped.

 

[kg221]

I will try to get some pictures later. Mine has never gotten as worse as the third picture. The problem with mine is when I try to feed it my damn clownfish decides its the time to try and bury himself in the carpet and the carpet eventually lets go of all the food. So I really can never spot feed it.

 

[Toddrtrex]

You might have to remove the clown until it settles in.

Some specs would be helpful,

Tank size
Parameter -- with numbers
How long has the tank been set up
Lights
etc