dying anenome...take it out?

[lzdking9]

been looking like this for about a week now. Had it in my tank about a month. First few weeks looked fine. Although have not had success at any time getting it to accept food. Does this thing look healthy to anyone? Any advice is appreciated. All my tank parameters are fine i'm afraid my tank might still be too young for a nem. Want to remove if before it really causes a problem.

[Parrothead]

A few quick questions

How long has your tank been set up?
What size is your tank?
What kind of flow(water movement) do you have?
What kind and wattage is your lighting?
What speices of nem is it?


And Welcome to Reeflands

[zhenya]

My guess would be that it is a BTA, severely bleached at this point.

Any advice is appreciated. All my tank parameters are fine i'm afraid my tank might still be too young for a nem. Want to remove if before it really causes a problem.

It is hard to give advice at this point.., it may very well be that this anemone has passed the point of no return, but it is still alive and I would wait a bit longer before removing it. If you tell me what you tried as food, and how really young your tank is, perhaps we can get a better picture what went wrong.

I've had bleached H.crispa some years ago that I found in the store. It looked worse than yours does at this time (in color), however, it had tentacles intact and yours seems to be consuming itself, hence the tentacles look so short.
Anyway, it took almost 18 month for my anemone to bounce back and regain it;s natural color (tan with colorful tips on the tentacles), but I had tried every food you can imagine until I found the food that this anemone liked. I mean I bought various types of fish and used pieces of flesh to try and entice it to eat, even stinky fish guts... :eek3:
Fortunately for me it accepted silversides and never looked back from that point on...

Anyhow, what I was trying to say is that it is hard sometimes to reverse this "shut down" moment in the life of the ivert like this anemone, and most of the time they die in the aquariums. Wish you posted this much sooner so we could possibly work on this situation.

I have one question for you as well, is anemone attached at this point? If it is, I would leave it be and continue to offer some food. Smaller sizes, get some seafood and soak it in the tank water, sqeeze out the juices and try basting anemone lightly with it before offering any solid food. See if it responds in any way, then try small chunk put directly on the oral disk. If food just slides off it would mean that it is probably too late at this point.

[Ninong]

My guess would be that it is a BTA...

Yes, it's a BTA (Entacmaea quadicolor).

I tried to give you a link to an excellent article by Dr. Ron Shimek entitled "Be a Host to Your Anemone," but unfortunately the article seems to have been lost in our most recent software upgrade. If I can retrieve it, I'll put the link in this thread for you.

Ron has a new article along the same lines, entitled "Sea Anemone Feeding," that appears in the March/April issue of Coral magazine.

[rluix]

A few quick questions

How long has your tank been set up?
What size is your tank?
What kind of flow(water movement) do you have?
What kind and wattage is your lighting?
What speices of nem is it?


And Welcome to Reeflands

This, and how many times do you change the water of you're tank? and how many % of the water do you take out?