New BTA help

Hi, I've got a Boyu tl550 about 8 months or so with a clown, goby, 6 line, cleaner shrimp and just added a BTA. The BTA was from my LFS and had been kept there for about a month before i bought it, at the LFS it looked well and had a maroon clown hosting it.

I bought the BTA and introduced it to my tank, within a couple of hours it was happy, inflated and looking good. it attached itself to a rock then walked along to the underneath, sometimes it was inflated others deflated.

I noticed a gash in the foot of the Nem and looked it up and began to worry, it doesn’t cling to the small slices of fish or misis shrimp I’ve tried to feed it with.

I moved it because i thought it was on its way out, but it reopened and filled out but has since moved back to the underneath of the tank a few hours after this picture.

Do you think i should leave it and risk the contamination of death with crossed fingers or give it a procaine burial if no chance of survival?

Rich

 

cuts in the anemones foot are almost always fatal to them. if you have a QT tank i would stick it in there WITHOUT any medicine and see how it goes. sorry.

 

unfortunatly i dont have a Q.T and that is what i was afraid of.. at what point do i remove it though, it's inflated and looking good but i dont want to risk a toxin release on my current fish...:-/

 

gexx is right, for now just se how it is, if it starts to disintergrate whip it out. I reckon the lfs probably tore it, id be tempted to take it back.

 

just keep an eye on it maybe itll get better. the foot will start to disentigrate. be ready though when you take it out. they smell RANCID out of water when they are dying.