Tube Anemone Shed Its Crown

[spollock818]

Is it dead or is this normal? Water params are great and I just need to know if I have to get it out of the tank?

 

[bradleym]

I've never heard of that before. They don't even have a crown. Do you mean a "feather duster" tube worm?

 

[spollock818]

NP its for sure a tube anemone. Its came apart from the tube right where the tentacles are.

 

[Postal]

You will probably have better luck posting on the Non-Photosynthetic forum. Several people on there keep tube anemones.
The crown is the living part, and it probably abandoned its tube for some reason (water quality, stressed, etc.) I believe if you leave it alone it should create a new tube assuming all other parameters are good enough to keep it alive.

 

[bradleym]

Can you post a picture? The tube anemone is made up of a group of tentacles attached to a long flexible worm-like body. Are you saying the tentacle section came off by itself, or the whole thing came out of the tube?

If the whole thing came out, then I agree with Postal. It should try to find a suitable location and dig into the sand until it's just showing the tentacles.

 

[spollock818]

Okay. So it is alive, and fine. Here is what happened. It was in too shallow sand I'm thinking. It's the pink and green species. When I went to move it, the whole "head" came apart from the tube in one piece. I replanted the head thinking it might still be alive, and left the tube because I felt it and there was something inside it still.

Two hours later, the the tentacles were open in the dark and had great extension. I pulled out the tube and it seemed like there was guts inside of it. Kinda like chicken guts and it smelled bad, not death decay, but definitely not something I wanted in my tank. My crads and snails were all over the old tube. The tube went in the trash.

Bottom line is that it shed it's "head" (for better lack of a word) just like feather dusters do and its now fine for the moment

 

[spollock818]

Something I did notice was my colt was close to it and I could see the anemone was stinging it. Is it possible that the colt was more aggressive than the anemone or that the anemone was stressed out buy it?

 

[snuggle2me]

the tube anemone will leave its tube if its stressed or wants to relocate or if you do like i did and pulled it out of its tube accidently. I have had mine for almost a year now and a few months ago i was moving and i went to pick up my tube anemone and he was anchored way deep along the bottom of the tank under the rock and when i pulled him he came out of the tube. At first i freaked out but then i realized it was ok and just placed him in his new spot when i moved him and covered him with sand. then next day he was fine and already making a new tube.

pic of tube anemone i just now took

 

[jumpman420]

I buried mine one day only for it to disappear behind the rockwork I had it buried under and it turned around and came out the other end of its tube.

 

[elegance coral]

Something I did notice was my colt was close to it and I could see the anemone was stinging it. Is it possible that the colt was more aggressive than the anemone or that the anemone was stressed out buy it?

It's highly possible.
In the future, you may want to ask these questions in another forum. You would probably get more/better responses. The animal you have isn't an anemone, so the anemone forum may not be the best place to ask these questions. Just FYI.