need help/anemone

[sil3ncio]

I purchased this anemone from Saltwater City last year, and a few months back it started to shrink and open up fully. It won't even feed. I bought it as a RBT with white dots at the end of the tentacles. I was using Red Sea Coral Pro salt, now switched to Oceanic, I have a 46 Bow, with t5 lamp, 4 lamps (2 actinic, 2 daylight), Bubble Magus skimmer, and phosban reactor running GFO. Not dosing anything at the time. Can anyone help, any suggestions on how to bring it back? Any Ideas....

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[sil3ncio]

anyone, any ideas???

 

[sil3ncio]

no iput???

 

[dabgood21]

Assuming all of your water parameters are in check. I'll take a shot at this and say that your lighting may be insufficient. RBTs need some pretty good lighting to stay happy, especially when you have a 46 bow. They tend to be fairly deep tanks to begin with so placing the anemone at the very top could help.

It also might be a good idea to swap out one of your actinics if you decide to keep that lighting system. You may not get the colors you want but you'll have some slightly stronger lighting.

Placing the lights directly on top (no legs propping it up) could also help. The idea being putting the light as close as possible to your anemone, etc...

Good Luck!

 

[Awibrandy]

I honestly cannot tell you what is wrong with your anemonie. I can see that it is definitely not happy, but I can also see that it does not appear to be falling apart [which is a good sign].

How about telling us a little more about your system. Has anything changed recently? Did you just start using GFO? What are your pars?

Trying to move the anemonie to the top would help IF it will stay put. I feel that if it was the lighting it would have climbed to the top of your rocks to begin with.
The other thing is the type of anemonie that it is, just because it was sold to you as an RBTA does not mean that is what it is.sorry

 

[jarofsardines]

what did you used to feed it and how often?
what are you water params for alk, ca and mag? anemones NEED a reef enviroment for their health, which means they need good water parameters and lighting.
improper feeding could have led to its decrease in health as they could be using more energy trying to digest the food then the ammount of energy they actually get from the food.

 

[pmui]

looks like its bleached.

 

[sil3ncio]

What does bleached mean? When I got it, never fed it anything, I thought that the light would be enough. As far as my parameters go, their all fine as for ammo, phos, nitrates, don't know about ca, alk, or mag as I don't have kits to test these....

 

[pmui]

something stress it out. what type of lights do you have it under now? and before you bought it? Anemone do need to be fed.

 

[ClosetFishGeek]

Lighting is huge with these guys. Also you did indicate that you just changed salts. Did you do this in a gradual fashion or all at once ? Also I have always fed my anemones and they do like to eat. At that size I have fed mine pellets as well as mysis. However to never have fed it is not good. How is the flow in your tank ?

 

[sil3ncio]

Its under 4 39 watt t5s, two actinic and two daylight. The change of the salt was sudden, and I have two K2s for flow, and also a maxijet 1200 with a FLO deflector that runs on a timer...

 

[Cibo]

I have an rbta did the same thing. It was up front then went to the back of the tank didnt see it for a few months. then a month or so it came back to the same spot it was in it now looked the same as your. I started to feed it had no tenticals now the tenticales are starting to come back and they are showing signs of red again, it eats silver sides and clam strips.