Sick rose BTA?

[jmstukey]

We purchased a Rose BTA anemone last week. Within 24 hours it crawled under an overhand in the rock out of the light and has not come out since. It has a mucousy discharge coming out of it, is deflated, and does not look very good. It looked good when we bought it, we drip acclimated it for about 5 hours. The tank parameters are

Amonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 15 PPM
Phosphate: .25
PH: 8.1
Salinity: 1.023
KH: 161
Calcium: 420
Lighting: 2 Radion Gen 2's

Tank is 110 Gallons and has been set up for 14 months

Flow: 2 returns from sump/refugium and one internal flow pump. There are high areas of flow and lower areas of flow. The flow around the BTA is gentle.

Livestock: 1 Rabbit fish, 1 engineer goby, 3 clowns, 1 pajama Cardinal, 1 coral beauty, and 1 neon basslet, 1 sally lightfoot crab, assorted snails, cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, 2 pistol shrimp, sand sifting starfish, and hermit crabs. There are also a bunch of copepods/amphipods.

We Vodka dose 8ml in the AM and 6ml in the PM.

The three coral frags we acclimated at the same time are doing great.

Should we attempt to move it back into the light? Is there anything else we can do for it?

 

[jmstukey]

Forgot to add the temp. It is 78 degrees

 

[shifty51008]

Give it time it will come out on its own when ready. Your phosphates are on the high end and would try lowering them to .03. And some would say to raise your sg to 1.026 but i run my tank at 1.021 because i breed and my btas all do great.

 

[jmstukey]

Looking much worse

Looking much worse

It looks like it is now having trouble even holding on to the rock and is looking like parts of it are melting away

I am thinking we may need to move it to a hospital tank? Thinking of setting up a five gallon tank tank with a small pump (covered by eggcrate) for flow. I have some LED bricks that aren't on a tank right now I could use for lighting and some liverock rubble I could pull from the sump. Thoughts?

With the phosphates, we are using an API testkit, they were somewhere between 0 and .25 (the next color on the card). What testkits to you use that give you such specific results? Or am I reading it incorrectly?

 

[shifty51008]

can you get a pic of it? that would help alot.

 

[jmstukey]

I attached pics from the front and back. The pic with the shrimp in it is the back. We use our tank as a room divider so can see through the rock from both sides

 

[RA]

I see that you are dosing vodka to improve your water quality, but looking at the first photo it shows a lot of algae. I also would suggest that your bring your phosphates down before trying another. Also what type of lighting do you have?

 

[shifty51008]

I use the hanna checker when I test phosphates but usually only test when something seems off. I don't trust color cards when it comes to phosphates
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/hanna-checker-phosphate-colorimeter.html

if it comes loose from the rock then you may wanna put it in a hospital tank to keep an eye on it better but I wouldn't pull it off a rock to move it, you could damage the foot.

 

[jmstukey]

We had an algae breakout 3 months ago when we added the Radion lights but it has been under control and disappearing for the last month. The pic makes it look like there is more algae than there is due to the shadows/color of the light we were using to get a pic of bta.

The foot is almost completely off :/

 

[alb_56]

I would get it in another tank right away if it were mine. Usually the foot letting go and melting are pretty much signs of the end to me. Just my opinion though.