Rose bubble tip anemone stressed/dying?

MMacro

MMacro

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My anemone seems very stressed. I came back from a 1 1/2 month vacation last week. I had someone come over to care for all the pets. I wrote down every thing that they needed to do including water changes. It turns out that they never did ANY waterchanges/water treatment. When I came back my anemone looked terrible. It was white with pink tips. It used to have a nice hethy red/rose color. It was hot here in california so the tank was at about 82 degrees. I usually keep it at 78-79. Also, my pipe organ is not opening up. Another thing that I found unusual was that my frog spawn multiplied in size.
 
Your not giving us much to go on. If it is bleached then it will get better. What are your water parameters? Is the mouth gaping? These answers will help us figure out whats up.
 
I have no test tubes to test the water right now, they are all broken. I am getting new ones soon and am looking for a way to test it right now. The anemone has only changed in color, I dont see anything else wrong with it.
 
Start doing water changes. I'm betting the tank may have been overfed coupled with a lack of water changes. The tank temps are fine and are absolutely not part of the issue. My tank runs around 82* in the summer and right now my large BTA is over 2' across and has perfect color. FWIW, many of the reefs that our livestock are indigenous to maintain temps into the mid 80's in the warmer months. 82* is really nothing to worry about as long as you have good surface agitation and or plenty of dissolved oxygen.

Your issue is most certainly water quality related. I'd do several smaller water changes over the next few days. I say smaller because I'm guessing your new water will be a different temp than your tank water and you don't want to cause issues from a sudden temp change. You also don't want to do too large of a water change and create additional stress as a result in a sudden change of water parameters. Water changes should help bring your RBTA back to normal and reduce overall stress in the tank at the same time.
 
slief said:
Start doing water changes. I'm betting the tank may have been overfed coupled with a lack of water changes. The tank temps are fine and are absolutely not part of the issue. My tank runs around 82* in the summer and right now my large BTA is over 2' across and has perfect color. FWIW, many of the reefs that our livestock are indigenous to maintain temps into the mid 80's in the warmer months. 82* is really nothing to worry about as long as you have good surface agitation and or plenty of dissolved oxygen.

Your issue is most certainly water quality related. I'd do several smaller water changes over the next few days. I say smaller because I'm guessing your new water will be a different temp than your tank water and you don't want to cause issues from a sudden temp change. You also don't want to do too large of a water change and create additional stress as a result in a sudden change of water parameters. Water changes should help bring your RBTA back to normal and reduce overall stress in the tank at the same time.
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Thanks for the info. I will prepare some water for waterchanges tomorrow morning. I already did a normal water change the day I got back.
 
Run lots of carbon. And do big water changes and feed the anemone so it can recover would be my best advice. Also shrinking is an indication of mineral toxicity. I'd look in the tank for any metal things like pennies. Kids love to drop stuff in. Also try and run a polyfilter it may change color if their is copper or anything in there.
 
If you have some ciproflaxin get the anem out of the DT and into a treatment tank and treat with the cipro
 
Dmorty217 said:
If you have some ciproflaxin get the anem out of the DT and into a treatment tank and treat with the cipro
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Without a picture jumping straight to treatment could be the wrong move with a BTA, they are very hardy in our aquariums and rarely require antibiotics. Just my 2 cents.
 
Right before I left I dosed some kent essential elements into the tank for the corals. Turns out it has copper. Could this be the problem?
 
boxfishpooalot said:
Run lots of carbon. And do big water changes and feed the anemone so it can recover would be my best advice. Also shrinking is an indication of mineral toxicity. I'd look in the tank for any metal things like pennies. Kids love to drop stuff in. Also try and run a polyfilter it may change color if their is copper or anything in there.
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I will do water changes for the rest pf the week. I am about to defrost a piece of shrimp right now. The tank is in my room and I am always by the tank if someone wants to see it haha. I will check for anything in the tank/sump. Thanks for the advoce
 
justinky said:
Without a picture jumping straight to treatment could be the wrong move with a BTA, they are very hardy in our aquariums and rarely require antibiotics. Just my 2 cents.
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Sounds as though he may lose the anem no matter what. Deflated and I'm assuming mouth is open =sick anem
 
Dmorty217 said:
Sounds as though he may lose the anem no matter what. Deflated and I'm assuming mouth is open =sick anem
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I keep mags and gigs I know anemones :) Was there a picture or something stating it is deflated? I didn't read that in the thread, if I had I would agree.
 
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