What is wrong with my Sebae Anemone?

[moevilla]

Just bought it 2 days ago. Fed it a piece of shrimp (which it readily ate) on the first day. Was inflated and now it is totally deflated and is upside down (mouth is in the sand). I have tried to put it right side up but it keeps on going upside down. Please help!

 

[Toddrtrex]

First, what color is it?

Then;

How long has your tank been set up?
What size tank?
What lights?
What are your water parameters? (( with numbers ))
What is your flow?
How deep is your sandbed?

 

[Crustman]

They have to bury their foot and will not be happy until they are secure. Look at my LTA photo. They also come in bleached and need time to get their pigment back. It is a long road of a few months to get one established. I bought a sebae to replace my LTA because it was not dong good but the sebae never attached under the sandbed.

 

[moevilla]

did your sebae make it? did it ever flip over onto its mouth and stay that way?

 

[Crustman]

Sebae went under the rocks and the clownfish rolled it around a while. It is behind the rocks now and alive but it has never attached. It also will not eat. They can get some nutrition from light when they color up. They should be yellowish brown but mine is white. I don't have much hope.

 

[Crustman]

You could try a pvc tube and bury it in the sand and put your sebae foot in it and bury most of it in the sand.

 

[shabreeson]

how big was the piece of shrimp?
did it digest it fully? did it regurgitate it?
it might be possible that the anemone did not have enough energy to digest it, meaning it might be rotting inside the anemone causing bubbles to form and put the anemone off balance. this would also cause a lot of problems with damaging chemicals and bacteria inside the anemone.

 

[LiveRound69]

i know i had a couple of anemones and they used to flip upside down in order to regurgitate the waste from what they ate recently. i seen it alot so it might just be they are taking a 'poop' so to speak.

 

[moevilla]

Anemone has died...it would stay on its mouth and would not turn over. The mouth was wide open and it began to smell like sour fish. I noticed my corals would either not open or looked shrivaled. I took it out and bagged it for burial. Either it was sick from the get-go (it did eat however and was moving around for a comfortable spot) or it had a bad case if indigestion from the shrimp. Atleast I will not buy white anemones anymore, I think it was already sick/stressed, and any additional stress, even minute, caused it's demise. Thanks all for the replies.

 

[Toddrtrex]

Could have been the water (( but without the parameters, can't say )). But, IMO, the may cause of the death was because it was bleached ( white ). Other anemones can be brought back from that state, but Sebaes seem to have an awful track record when they are in that condition. Why they are even sold like that is beyond me.

 

[LiveRound69]

i do know that anemones usually start stringing off when getting ready to die. Since yours is dead now...do a water change immediately to avoid the toxins he may have released into your system.