Hi. First and foremost, I would like to apologise too the anemone demigods and gurus by putting my anemone in this state. I’ve had some personal issues which made me neglect my tank for some time. Lately I’ve been getting back on my heels and refurbishing my tank. Cleaning out the rocks, algae and so on. I’ve lost some corals and also a few fish due to this downfall in my life. But I still “have” my anemone. I’ve posted a recent thread in regards of my crash here https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/i-need-some-guidance.901174/ . I’ve tested the waters a few days back and it was posted on that thread also.
Other corals are doing “fine” I guess. Slowly but surely (GSP YUMA and ZOAS). Right now my main issue is my favourite animal in the tank. My BTA. It was purplish red in colour with orange tips (when I got it and when it was heathy.) my clowns loved it and it hosted my pair of osces.
right now it’s not in the best (may be the worst) condition. I just wanted to know if it cann recover or jump back into health. I’ve had tried to feed it when I was not maintaining my tank with shrimp. It just seemed to let go of the food and sometimes my other fisheh ( at the time) stole from it.
today after changing around 10-20% of the water and flipping some rocks around, I noticed that the mouth was open. Not to an extent where the guts of the nem was everywhere but; noticeably opening. I realise that it had bleached completely (can it regain the zooxanthellae?).
right now, I’m thinking of a way to feed it. Since I only have my 2 clowns left as inhabitants of the tank, should I “force” feed the nem? I’ve been planning to cut some shrimp to small pieces (not chunks) and try turning off flow and squirt some into its mouth by turkey Baster.
If not, can it recover? And if it could, what’s the best solution to make sure that my little nem here will survive?
Below is a photo of it right now, turned on the lights for a brief moment to take this picture. Oh and btw, it kinda lost all its tentacles already. Just a white disc kind of. Small little blobs (less than 5 millilitres maybe) in size. The foot is still strong IMO
Other corals are doing “fine” I guess. Slowly but surely (GSP YUMA and ZOAS). Right now my main issue is my favourite animal in the tank. My BTA. It was purplish red in colour with orange tips (when I got it and when it was heathy.) my clowns loved it and it hosted my pair of osces.
right now it’s not in the best (may be the worst) condition. I just wanted to know if it cann recover or jump back into health. I’ve had tried to feed it when I was not maintaining my tank with shrimp. It just seemed to let go of the food and sometimes my other fisheh ( at the time) stole from it.
today after changing around 10-20% of the water and flipping some rocks around, I noticed that the mouth was open. Not to an extent where the guts of the nem was everywhere but; noticeably opening. I realise that it had bleached completely (can it regain the zooxanthellae?).
right now, I’m thinking of a way to feed it. Since I only have my 2 clowns left as inhabitants of the tank, should I “force” feed the nem? I’ve been planning to cut some shrimp to small pieces (not chunks) and try turning off flow and squirt some into its mouth by turkey Baster.
If not, can it recover? And if it could, what’s the best solution to make sure that my little nem here will survive?
Below is a photo of it right now, turned on the lights for a brief moment to take this picture. Oh and btw, it kinda lost all its tentacles already. Just a white disc kind of. Small little blobs (less than 5 millilitres maybe) in size. The foot is still strong IMO