Is my Nem past saving?

Slyler · Oct 16, 2024

I have a tank that has had its ups and down, but it’s been up for a year now and I purchased a seabae anenome about 3 months ago. It was doing great, it was sticky, open and inflated looking happy and eating, but then about 2 weeks ago it decided to go for a walk and ended up in a power head. One side of it was quite ripped up and not looking good. I stopped the pump set it up in a new place and went to bed. I’m the morning it had moved to the back of the tank, and I thought if it’s happy there I’ll leave it there. When I came home from work the Halloween urchin had picked it up and taken it for a ride. I took it off the urchin, and replaced it in a new spot with similar flow but a nice rock cut out for its foot. It’s never really opened up again, isn’t sticky and as you can see from the pics I will attempt to attach, its insides are looking to be outsides. Should I take it out of the tank? Is there something I can do for it? I don’t want it to die in my tank and take out all the corals and fish. Please help! And thanks in advance for any suggestions. As you can see I the first pic, it’s not attached it foot or anything for 10 days

JoJosReef · Oct 16, 2024

Slyler said:
I have a tank that has had its ups and down, but it’s been up for a year now and I purchased a seabae anenome about 3 months ago. It was doing great, it was sticky, open and inflated looking happy and eating, but then about 2 weeks ago it decided to go for a walk and ended up in a power head. One side of it was quite ripped up and not looking good. I stopped the pump set it up in a new place and went to bed. I’m the morning it had moved to the back of the tank, and I thought if it’s happy there I’ll leave it there. When I came home from work the Halloween urchin had picked it up and taken it for a ride. I took it off the urchin, and replaced it in a new spot with similar flow but a nice rock cut out for its foot. It’s never really opened up again, isn’t sticky and as you can see from the pics I will attempt to attach, its insides are looking to be outsides. Should I take it out of the tank? Is there something I can do for it? I don’t want it to die in my tank and take out all the corals and fish. Please help! And thanks in advance for any suggestions. As you can see I the first pic, it’s not attached it foot or anything for 10 days

No experience with sebaes, but when a BTA or RFA is looking like that, I figure I've got a 10% chance if bringing it back with extreme intervention.

Just me personally, but I would take it out into a hospital tank with ciprofloxacin in the water. Decent light and lowish flow. Don't push it with feeding until it's tentacles look sticky again (if). I don't know what concentration for cipro, I'd have to look that up.

radfly · Oct 16, 2024

Once it’s chopped it is easy for it to catch a bacterial infection and nuke the tank. If you have cipro and a hospital tank you may save it, else disposal may be the best option. Run carbon and do a hearty water change to remove any contamination he has already spewed out.