Need Help ASAP

Hi guys,

I just came home and noticed my Green Bulb Anemone was shrunken and letting off some gelly substance.

Is it about to die? If so, I need to take it out and dispose of it, right?



OR IS THIS NORMAL? Because sometimes it does shrink to let off waiste.


Please let me know asap.



Many Thanks!

 

When dealing with anemones, there are a lot of questions to start off with to give us a better idea as to what's going on. How old is your tank and how long have you had the nem? What size tank is it and what types of lights and flow do you have? Also, what are all of your parameters? Nems are very sensitive to poor water. If it's expelling stuff, it could just be getting rid of waste. They will kinda look shriveled when they do this.

 

My Tank is 4 months old. I've had the anemone for about 3 weeks now. My tank is 29 gallons and I have 2 acentic and 2 HO lights along with the LED moonlights.

It's been perfect up until now. All my parameters are fine, water is kinda cloudy but everything else is near perfect. SG is 1.025

 

To be honest with you, your tank isn't old enough for an anemone. It's recommended that the tank be at least a year old, trust me, I learned the hard way. Now, I'm not saying that it can't be done because some people have had luck keeping one in a newer tank but they're the exception. Hopefully it's just expelling waste, a pic would be helpful. On the other hand, it could be it's stomach become distended, which is a very bad sign, again a pic would be helpful. The one thing you have to really watch is, if it starts going downhill, get it out ASAP. A dying nem can nuke your entire tank.

 

I agree your tank is too new to have huge chances of success. Your lighting is also not going to be enough for it. Touch it to see if it still feels sticky. Also check to see if it feels mushier than normal. If it does not feel sticky or is mushier than usual those are bad signs. Have you been feeding it anything?

 

Get ready cuz its coming, not from me but your going to hear about it.... hear about how a 4 month old tank isn't ready for most anything let alone Nem's, you will hear about how Nems are not for rookies (not that your a rookie) and hear just about everything other than what you asked.

Water's cloudy, most likely because the Nem is either polluting it with waste or its melting away (nice way of saying Dying) and polluting it with decaying body parts.

I will go out on a limb and say it's most likely dying. Over the years I have had many and lost a few. In my experience even though the waste removal process isn't pretty I could always tell the difference.

I would keep an eye on it, run some extra carbon in you filter or in a bag just hanging over the side. Watch you parameters and do a small water change or two if the water gets to cloudy.

If it gets to the point where it just looks REALLY BAD, take whats left out and flush it and do a couple of water changes right away and next time fight the urge to buy another because between me and you they really don't belong in a small home aquarium they belong in the ocean.