Somethings wrong - HELP!!!

[straightjiggy10]

So Just last week I took this pic of my bubble tip anemone:

Today all of a sudden it looked like this: :dead1:

Its in my 90G Reef, I moved the fish to my another tank prior to this with exception of an purple tang, the coral are doing well I have another bubble tip on opposite side of tank that looks wonderful, anyone knows what this brown goo coming out of its mouth is? Or what should i do?
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[CHEMCHEF]

Bump Help

 

[straightjiggy10]

bump

 

[KathyC]

First, make sure all of your parameters are in order.
Has anything changed in the tank since right before you noticed this? Did you feed it anything odd, add a new 'chemica;', change salts..anything?


If they arein order and nothing has changed, don't worry, sometimes they do strange things and puke out the brown 'stuff' you are referring to. I wouldn't try and feed it - just leave it be for now, when it expands again like it usually does, feed it then.
It is the foot that you want to watch, as long as that is happily attached, then you're usually fine and it's just a stage your animal is going through.

 

[straightjiggy10]

well everythings fine i usually feed it jumbo krill then it stopped eating last week, only thing i did differently is take out rock catch fish put rock back?

 

[DrCooper]

Hope its ok, interesting thread though. Curious to see what happens but hope it works out of course for you and your anemone!

 

[straightjiggy10]

thanks me too right now its completely deflated! will post more pics tomorrow after water change

 

[KathyC]

well everythings fine i usually feed it jumbo krill then it stopped eating last week, only thing i did differently is take out rock catch fish put rock back?

Did you keep the rock submerged in water while doing that? With more tender corals it is usually best to put the vessel the rock is going into right into your tank and take it out water and all until you can return to the tank..less shock that way. I'll use a tupperware container to do something like this and then move it into wherever I need to temporarily keep it, and then return it to the tank in the same manner.

At what point did it start acting weird compared to when you moved it?

 

[KathyC]

thanks me too right now its completely deflated! will post more pics tomorrow after water change

That happens too! Just watch the foot. If it is holding on as usual, step away from the tank and try and focus on something else

 

[straightjiggy10]

I left anemone in tank when i took rock out, ill wait it out

 

[straightjiggy10]

what do you feed your anemone?

 

[Pinkheine]

Our anemones, the LTA, BTA and carpet all shrink up to basically nothing then ooze, release or whatever you want to call it brown stuff, aka doody. My duncans, rics, zoas all at one point in time or another doody the same way. The fish and other corals in the tank love it. The lobo is the most entertaining to see "doody" it releases in clouds in a burst type of action. First time we saw it, what a crack up.

Have you ever witnessed your anemone take a dump before? Seems like a normal description from what you are saying.. but the pics don't even look like the same anemone so idk.

 

[Awibrandy]

Our anemones, the LTA, BTA and carpet all shrink up to basically nothing then ooze, release or whatever you want to call it brown stuff, aka doody. My duncans, rics, zoas all at one point in time or another doody the same way. The fish and other corals in the tank love it. The lobo is the most entertaining to see "doody" it releases in clouds in a burst type of action. First time we saw it, what a crack up.

Have you ever witnessed your anemone take a dump before? Seems like a normal description from what you are saying.. but the pics don't even look like the same anemone so idk.

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[straightjiggy10]

That's Why I Am Concerned Because It Looks So Much Different Than Itself, I Know About Discharge But It Never Looked So Bad Before, Guess I'm Just A Worrier Lol, I Will Update You Guys Soon, Im Doing A Water Change Now. Thanks For The Answers

 

[DrCooper]

Our anemones, the LTA, BTA and carpet all shrink up to basically nothing then ooze, release or whatever you want to call it brown stuff, aka doody. My duncans, rics, zoas all at one point in time or another doody the same way. The fish and other corals in the tank love it. The lobo is the most entertaining to see "doody" it releases in clouds in a burst type of action. First time we saw it, what a crack up.

Have you ever witnessed your anemone take a dump before? Seems like a normal description from what you are saying.. but the pics don't even look like the same anemone so idk.

i just read this and couldnt stop laughing. i know its great info but the kid in me still found it funny!

 

[straightjiggy10]

well water parameters are fine, I had it about 5 months I used to feed it jumbo krill every 2 days then it stopped taking it like a month ago. I have A coralife aqualight power compacts. It expelled waste (DOODIED) before but obviously not this bad!

 

[Pinkheine]

i just read this and couldnt stop laughing. i know its great info but the kid in me still found it funny!

:lol: I was unsure of what word to use. I thought maybe feces would have worked but doody is more fun to say. :tongue1:

 

[Simon Garratt]

This is just personnal experience but it may be of use. Ive found that Symbiotic Anemones will commonly do this under certain situations. most common of which is the need to exchange water that is held within the body cavity if that water has become unsuitable or unstable by way of chemistry or excessive nutrient load.

This is why its very common for anemones to deflate and re-inflate when swapped from one water body to another as a means of equalising differences in chemistry between water outside the body, and that within.

In situations where anemones are housed in systems with nutrient levels far in excess of normally accepted ranges, they will commonly try to flush themselves out more often. The worse the water quality, the more often they do it. although this trend doesn't seem to hold so true for some species commonly found in shallow water lagoon and reed flat locations that are in many cases inherently higher in dissolved nutrients anyway, such as the hells-fire, night anemones and other related species that seem better adapted to (for want of a better description) muckier conditions in comparison to those species more commonly found on the forward reef slope, in clear low nutrient water but with a high small prey item %.

Ive commonly used this trait as an indicator of overall welfare of symbiotic anemones with good success, and generally expect around 1 full deflation every few months as a norm (not including night time moderate deflation or retraction which is normal for most daytime species) any more than that and Id generally start looking for causes.

As for feeding, well, to be honest i never actively feed my anemones at all ( 2 bubbles, 3 Cerianthus, and an unknown night/hells-fire anemone, they just get what floats by although admittedly i do feed very heavily whist still maintaining a low free nutrient load, but i never gross feed, especially in the case of mildly stinging species such as the bubble tip because in nature they generally wont ever acquire or capture such large morsels. unlike carpet anemones that do have the capacity to capture and hold/paralyse quite sizable prey items Ive generally found that bubbles and malu's etc do better if squirted once in a while (maybe once a week or so) with a small amount of fine thawed frozen foods such as mysis or Krill Pacifica (smaller than Jumbo Krill).

It may just be a case that its being fed a little too much too often in large doses rather than smaller doses spread over a longer period.

Just a few thoughts, but looking at the image, The foot appears fine. So I'm hazarding a guess that its just changing its internal water volume.

additionally but don't quote me on this....iirc expulsion of material from the gut cavity without deflation is commonly just the anemone getting rid of non digestible material which is usually released as a kind of mucus ball. however expulsion of brown stringy material with deflation may well be the expulsion of dead or excess zooxanthallae.


Regards

Simon.

 

[straightjiggy10]

Here is a 48 hour update:

The anemone has gotten better still not at its best all I did was do a 20% water change, I do agree with you Simon! It just looked a lil strange being this is the first time it dispelled waste so drastic...

updated pic taken this morning:

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[jhart]

i just read this and couldnt stop laughing. i know its great info but the kid in me still found it funny!

Brown Goo To me seems Like zooanthelia..