Carpet Anemone (Near Death?)

I will do the water change then...
I don't have any other corals...
Lost a flame angel fish in the outage...
I think that 25 hour period with no water movement rose my phosphate level and dkh from 10 to 12... all other areas stayed the same...
Anemone hasn't been the same... I mean look at the before and after pics... IS IT NORMAL????
How can I check the ground probe? It's still hooked up.

 

Dude.....I don't know. Here is where the pro's come in. Watch it close. And good luck man. It would be a shame to lose that. It's beautiful.

 

man it doesnt look happy does it?
Shame its very pretty - nice and blue.

Do you ahev a ground probe? as previously stated the power outage may have done something there

 

I'm pretty darned sure that Metal Halide lighting is a must for carpet anemones so that might be where your problem lies. Also, if I'm not mistaken, your tank is very new and you had a problem with overstocking it when you first set it up. If that's the case, your tank is most likely too young to support an anemone as difficult to keep as a carpet. I don't recommend anyone keep any type of anemone in a tank less than a year old.

 

If you have only had it one week then it may be expelling the old water and taking in new. Mine looked like that a few times when i just brought it home. What kind of light do you have? Also i dont think i would be touching it all the time, that just puts more stress on it.
Ok nvm on the lighting not sure if its enough, I had metal halide along with PC's for my carpet.

 

Hey Ryan thanks for the PM,

From what i gather and have read , you experianced a power outage from a severe storm.
I seem to recall reading that power was out for like 28+ hours ?.

I havint owned a carpet anemone, just a couple of sebe's , you realize that caprpet is agressive and should it hold on and live , that thing will grow to "GODZILLA" size.
Ive seen pics of carpert anemone in owners tanks where it took over half the tank.

The power outage that you had was for quite some time , ALL anemones need decent water flow, and PH/ALK have to be on the money for long term success.
it almost sounds like when the power went out , water movment stopped,
( no 02 was being put in by the skimmer ) and therefor NO gas exhange was happening , either by skimmer or watter flow from the pumps/PH's.

Basicly the water did nothing but lay still and thus no gas exchange could occur.
And that will cause your PH/ALK do do weird things.

Water changes are about the best thing to do in a situation like that, it will replenish higher ph readings and other needed elements.
If even you were able to get back-up power for atleast one PH , it may have just kept enough water movment for the tank.

Your other parametes rose because 1, your skimmer stopped producing 02 and means to remove organic waste and no filtration to boot and no water movment on your carbon bag/s.

Any way's carpets ( and that appears to be fairly large specimen that you bought) , larger specimens like your have been some where in a stable enviroment, and then you purchased it and then the power went out for that long duration.
I prefer to buy ( if i were to again ) purchase smaller , more managible and more able to acclimate to "your tank".

Do i think it will die or surrvive ?, well it looks pretty bad, looks from the pics it's basicly turning inside out.
How ever i did not know how healthy , how well you kept parameters , how often you fed.
( carpets are some what finicky any ways, verses say a sebe ? )

Hope i helped ya and hope i didint depress you or your wife, good luck.

 

Might want to have a read here:

CarpetAnemones
ReefSlides - May '04 - Carpet Anemones

 

Nope! Never getting one, or any other anemone...unless I have a dedicated tank!!!! I would rather have some pretty corals, plants and a variety of fish.

 

If I had enough room for a large species only tank, I'd definitely want to keep one because they are so beautiful. I had one many many moons ago before I knew what I was doing and ended up getting rid of it after it ate about 5 of my most prized fish, including a 4" powder blue tank.

 

give it a few days/weeks,stick to your normal husbandry routine, you'll know when it's dying/dead. i don't have a carpet and i'm certainly not an "expert" but i have three atlantic anemones, once in a while they look like heck but always come back,it seems to be standard procedure for them. also i noticed your two clowns seem pretty interested in it, the attention they are giving the anemone on top of the stress of moving on the anemone could be whats got it down, you should leave it be and maybe even remove the clowns until the anemone settles in wich could take a month or longer, one of mines been in there 6plus months and still moves around quite a bit.
have you tried feeding it?
mine are a little underilluminated and need a meal once a week or so,live baby guppies work great,just place one in the tentacles make sure it's gotta good hold on it and watch it go
what does the mouth look like?
if the mouths closed it's most likely not dying,if its open and "loose" looking you could be in trouble,DO NOT TOUCH THE MOUTH!
i hope it works out for you, i think anemones are the most interesting creatures we can put in our tanks but they're also one of the most demanding and misunderstood.
p.s. if the foots ripped it's pretty much game over