Carpet Anemone showing flesh at the edges

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Hi

My carpet nem has some if it's edges kinda chipped or that's what it looks like. Flesh showing as seen in the picture. The pumps are protected with nem guards. So it could not be that. The water params are good. It's in a 75g tank currently. What could be wrong?

Two clowns are hosting and they are doing really well. No other critters in the tank apart from a couple of turbos. I do have bubble algae and a small aiptasia infestation. Have attached multiple images of the nem. It's almost 2 years old and has been generally healthy. Feeding it raw shrimp.

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Your anemone looks fine to me.

I dont see any chipped edges with exposed internal flesh showing...

Carpet anemones will open and close so the shape can look oblong and uncircular at times.
Have added a few more pics below. I can see the white flesh showing without the surface tentacles. Let me know if this is normal.
 

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If you've had it for two years, is this a new development? Any other recent changes to the tank? There can be some variation in the density of tentacles on carpets. I wouldn't worry about it unless the carpet shows other signs of distress, like contracting for long periods of time, gaping oral disc, or obvious signs of bacterial infection. Nice specimen by the way - beautiful.
 
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If you've had it for two years, is this a new development? Any other recent changes to the tank? There can be some variation in the density of tentacles on carpets. I wouldn't worry about it unless the carpet shows other signs of distress, like contracting for long periods of time, gaping oral disc, or obvious signs of bacterial infection. Nice specimen by the way - beautiful.
Thanks. No other changes in the tank. The clowns are spawning and that's the only thing new. No contractions or any other signs so far. But it did move quite a bit last couple of weeks. But now has settled down. I do see new tentacles forming on those fleshy areas now.
 
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