Question About Green Carpet

[sz2121]

Hey Everyone
Just picked up a green carpet last night. I acclimated it for about an hour and a half or so. I turned off all of the pumps in the tank and it sunk right in to the sand. Then this morning it wasnt attached anymore. I turned the pumps off again and it seemed to attach right away to the rock/sand.
A little while ago i noticed that it is extremely shriveled and it appears that the stomach is coming out of the mouth a little. Is this a real bad sign, did I screw something up, or is this normal? I have plenty of light in the tank (individual reflector t-5 lighting) and al of the water parameters are unchanged from their normal levels. My BTA is doing great as are all of the SPS and cams in the tank so I figured it had to be something with this specific anemone. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. I included a couple of pictures.
Thanks for all of your help.
Scott

 

[sz2121]

Its foot just released from the rock and its turned over on its face at this point. Here are a couple more pictures ust before it detached itself.

 

[Toddrtrex]

It is a Haddoni -- which prefer to have their foot buried in the sandbed, usually right at the sand/rock interface.

Do you know what lights it was under before you got it? And are you acclimating it to your lights? (( 3 layers of window screening is what I use, and remove a layer every 5-7 days )).

Also, they don't seem to be fans of a lot of flow -- if the oral disc is being lifted up there is too much flow.

In the second picture it looks like the edge of it was stung, any chance it touched your BTA? Years ago I had a Haddoni and BTA together (( I no longer mix species of anemones )) and the BTA actually stung the Haddoni.

It could just be acclimating, but would prefer the mouth to be tightly closed. Any fully healthy ones that I have gotten had their mouth closed the whole time they were getting used to my tank. Whereas the ones that had open mouths and their insides coming out never recovered.

 

[sz2121]

Thanks. The anemone was under T-5 before, but it was a single long light as opposed to my 4 lights so I have about 4 screens above the tank and was going to be taking one off every 3 - 4 days. It has not gone near the BTA's. I structured some of the rock to prevent some of the flow. I will look to constrict the flow a little more or at least change the direction of the flow. It is in the front of the tank right now buried in about a 3 inch sandbed right now.
What else should I watch for or do?
Thanks again

 

[Toddrtrex]

I missed the second round of pictures, those look better.

For now, just keep an eye out for the mouth being tightly closed.

Personally I wouldn't attempt to feed it until Monday or Tuesday --- give it time to settle in. And when you do feed it use small pieces (( I feed my Haddonis frozen (( thawed )) krill )), smaller ones are easier to digest -- less energy expended -- and less of a chance of fouling up the "inside water" of the anemone if it doesn't fully digest it.

 

[sz2121]

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate all of your help.
I changed the flow of the return water and the carpet doesnt appear to be "blowing" around nearly as much. It still has not reattached itself anywhere but the mouth does look a lot better.
Is there anything else I can do to help it attach to something or is the leave it alone approach the best?
Thanks again