Upside Down Anemone

[Eric55]

I've had this green bubble tip for one month. It moves around from time to time, and it has a healthy appetite. I buy raw shrimp at the grocery store for it and hand feed it about 2 times a week.

This morning I noticed that it moved, and planted itself under a ledge of live rock, and was hanging vertically upside down.

I'm including 4 photos from today, plus one from a week ago where it was very deflated, and one from about a week ago where it looked happier.

Is the anemone doing OK? It is my first one.

Thank you for any information you can share,
Eric

 

[littleshark]

Anemone looks sick. IT is VERY bleach. What kind of lighting is it under? What are the water paraments. We need numbers not "Water is all good" How old is the tank?

 

[Eric55]

Tank is 2 years old. Two fluorescent bulbs, 24 watt each.

Update: it expelled some of the food I gave it earlier, and something else is coming out and it does not look like the food I gave it.

I'm wondering if it is turning itself inside out and dying?

 

[traveller7]

Bleached, hanging upside down like that, the shrimp hanging around for an easy meal, and the scavenging snails....Looks like the anemone might require some effort.

In my experience, weakened anemones and shrimp are a bad combo. Shrimp pick at them and steal the anemone's food. I would put the shrimp in a basket, or the anemone in a basket.

The anemone is bleached pretty well, and it appears in the deflated picture to have a wound at the edge of the oral disk.

Make sure to feed it small portions, 1cmx1cm maximum. Too large and they'll spit it out before digesting much.

Lighting is at low end, I'd be running 2x10K or even 10K and 6.5K bulbs and considering an upgrade.

 

[Eric55]

A few of the tips are brown. Does this mean anything?

 

[traveller7]

Maybe symbiotic algae, maybe an injury, maybe an infection, maybe waste, maybe eggs, maybe quite a few things.