BTA Anemone health declining help

[vetteguy53081]

Hey everyone. I bought a new BTA about a week and a half ago and he didn't seem too good right off the bat. I've been hoping to see some improvement but I left for two days and came back today to this. My temp crashed to 67 while I was gone apparently and I don't doubt that contributed to this. I'm still getting the hang of this setup and I will put steps in place to make sure that kind of temp crash doesn't happen again. Luckily everything else survived as it was only low for about a day. Anyways his foot is pretty firmly attached and I'm currently watching him move across the tank. Along with the brightly colored tentacles does he still have hope?

Tank is not quite seeded to support specimens such as this especially if going through chemistry changes associated with newer tanks and the tank looks awfully white.
You will get asked what your numbers are especially phos, nitrate and ph as well as salinity and temperature. How are you testing these parameters. Lights look quite bright .
These nems need moderate light and water flow. If too bright, as seen in pics may be expelling zooxanthellae which is their color and energy source. Feeding is important and best is chopped krill and mysis shrimp.

 

[Mattc123]

If he still has good footing then just leave him alone

I'm gonna cross my fingers and do this lol. He's very much so still attached I gave him a little poke with a baster after basting him with some reef roids and he was not budging and he's currently slowly migrating down the tank so he's obviously moving.

 

[Stephen8169301]

I'm gonna cross my fingers and do this lol. He's very much so still attached I gave him a little poke with a baster after basting him with some reef roids and he was not budging and he's currently slowly migrating down the tank so he's obviously moving.

Just leave him alone watch him stop feeding

 

[Mattc123]

Tank is not quite seeded to support specimens such as this especially if going through chemistry changes associated with newer tanks and the tank looks awfully white.
You will get asked what your numbers are especially phos, nitrate and ph as well as salinity and temperature. How are you testing these parameters. Lights look quite bright .
These nems need moderate light and water flow. If too bright, as seen in pics may be expelling zooxanthellae which is their color and energy source. Feeding is important and best is chopped krill and mysis shrimp.

I just tested my parameters with Hanna and red sea test kits. They are as follows

Salinity- 1.024
Temp- 70.8
Nitrate- less than 10 with the red sea and really couldn't be bothered to do the 15 step Hanna checker since I'm doing a water change anyways
pH- 7.9 (nightly pH swing)
Calcium- 450
Phosphate- .07
Alk- 6.6
Ammonia- 0
Like I said the temp crashed and is very slowly on its way up bc I didn't want to shock anything anymore. Not sure why alkalinity is so low though. Any opinions? Assuming it'll go back to normal with water change.

 

[Mattc123]

The risk of a bta nuking a tank is overstated. If it starts turning to mush/breaking down, remove it. If it's still attached, there is still hope.

This is my experience as well I've had a nem before for a few years ago for quite a while and it never caused a problem and that was in a much smaller tank

 

[vetteguy53081]

I just tested my parameters with Hanna and red sea test kits. They are as follows

Salinity- 1.024
Temp- 70.8
Nitrate- less than 10 with the red sea and really couldn't be bothered to do the 15 step Hanna checker since I'm doing a water change anyways
pH- 7.9 (nightly pH swing)
Calcium- 450
Phosphate- .07
Alk- 6.6
Ammonia- 0
Like I said the temp crashed and is very slowly on its way up bc I didn't want to shock anything anymore. Not sure why alkalinity is so low though. Any opinions? Assuming it'll go back to normal with water change.

Temp will not have helped and I would get it to 77-78 , dont drag it out.
Temp affects salinity and you want 1.025 but see if it increases with temperature.
Alk is quite low but should not have an impact on nem but rather coral (you want 8-11dkh)

 

[Mattc123]

Temp will not have helped and I would get it to 77-78 , dont drag it out.
Temp affects salinity and you want 1.025 but see if it increases with temperature.
Alk is quite low but should not have an impact on nem but rather coral (you want 8-11dkh)

It's at 73.4 now so it's getting there. I think it should come in around 1.025 when it's done

 

[Mattc123]

After hitching a ride on a turbo snail to the opposite side of the tank he seems a little happier now. What does everyone think? He's clearly not 100% but definitely seems slightly improved.