Anemome Tentacles Covered in Strings?

[Zakary2003]

My nexus anemone moved recently, as btas tend to do. It seemed to like the new spot, but it has been closed the last three days. Upon closer inspection, I noticed some strings coming out of the tentacles. I've only ever seen these strings when my dad would manually cut bubble tips in half to split them, so it doesn't seem like a good sign to me.

He is very close to a powerhead but it has a guard. Could he have gotten partially sucked in?

I also have a pair of clowns and a few sexy shrimp, but they host other anemones.

It is very close to some acros, but I haven't seen it touch them at all.

It is in an area of high light (250+ par) and very high flow (right in front of my powerhead). It could definitely move if it was unhappy...

What do you guys think caused the strings? Is it something to be worried about?

I just lost a black widow bubble tip that never fully acclimated to my tank (it came from a lazy (neglectful) family member), so I'd be really sad if I lost another.

Parameters I test for are stable and should not have caused it, but I'll list them out anyways since people always ask for them regardless of the issue

Alk 8.8
Calc 420
Salinity 35ppt
Nitrates 1ppm
Phosphates .12ppm
Ph swings from 7.6 at night to 8.2 or 8.3 during the day
Magnesium is around 1250 but I dont test regularly

I would assume ammonia spiked about a week ago due to the other dead anemone, but I didn't test.

 

[Zakary2003]

 

[Zakary2003]

I pulled him off the rocks. It looks really bad. Can someone please respond?

 

[Edwin1007]

My nexus anemone moved recently, as btas tend to do. It seemed to like the new spot, but it has been closed the last three days. Upon closer inspection, I noticed some strings coming out of the tentacles. I've only ever seen these strings when my dad would manually cut bubble tips in half to split them, so it doesn't seem like a good sign to me.

He is very close to a powerhead but it has a guard. Could he have gotten partially sucked in?

I also have a pair of clowns and a few sexy shrimp, but they host other anemones.

It is very close to some acros, but I haven't seen it touch them at all.

It is in an area of high light (250+ par) and very high flow (right in front of my powerhead). It could definitely move if it was unhappy...

What do you guys think caused the strings? Is it something to be worried about?

I just lost a black widow bubble tip that never fully acclimated to my tank (it came from a lazy (neglectful) family member), so I'd be really sad if I lost another.

Parameters I test for are stable and should not have caused it, but I'll list them out anyways since people always ask for them regardless of the issue

Alk 8.8
Calc 420
Salinity 35ppt
Nitrates 1ppm
Phosphates .12ppm
Ph swings from 7.6 at night to 8.2 or 8.3 during the day
Magnesium is around 1250 but I dont test regularly

I would assume ammonia spiked about a week ago due to the other dead anemone, but I didn't test.

How old is your tank?

 

[Zakary2003]

How old is your tank?

That's a surprisingly loaded question.

It's about two years old, but almost everything died in September after we got hit with two major hurricanes back to back, so most of the livestock is only a few months old. Same live rock though, and I'd assume all that death and decay really bolstered my microbe populations.

 

[Zakary2003]

That's a surprisingly loaded question.

It's about two years old, but almost everything died in September after we got hit with two major hurricanes back to back, so most of the livestock is only a few months old. Same live rock though, and I'd assume all that death and decay really bolstered my microbe populations.

The anemones have been in there since November 16th. It has split once since I got it and both splits had been doing really well until recently. The other half of the split looks alright.

 

[KrisReef]

SOme of these anemones are reported to have chemical fights with neighbors, so I am wondering if these were doing that and killing each other recently?

Try adding some fresh carbon into your filtration to rule this out, if you are not already?

 

[Edwin1007]

That's a surprisingly loaded question.

It's about two years old, but almost everything died in September after we got hit with two major hurricanes back to back, so most of the livestock is only a few months old. Same live rock though, and I'd assume all that death and decay really bolstered my microbe populations.

Do you have any livestock? Inverts ? How are they doing? I agree that you probably nuked your tank of the beneficial bacteria, Id say Check nitrites and trates.

 

[Zakary2003]

SOme of these anemones are reported to have chemical fights with neighbors, so I am wondering if these were doing that and killing each other recently?

Try adding some fresh carbon into your filtration to rule this out, if you are not already?

Just added the carbon. Hopefully it helps

 

[Zakary2003]

Do you have any livestock? Inverts ? How are they doing? I agree that you probably nuked your tank of the beneficial bacteria, Id say Check nitrites and trates.

Yes, I have fish, a pistol shrimp, a pair of sexy shrimp, a skunk cleaner shrimp, hermits, a sand conch, and a few trochus and astrea snails.

Nitrates are low, as stated in my original message. I can't test nitrites right now as i don't have a kit.

The tank has been running normally for about 8 months now. The bacteria is definitely fine... the hurricanes were in Septmeber and it is May now. I promise the issue is not an immature or uncycled tank. I even have SPS that are doing quite well.

 

[Ooh fiddlesticks]

The only time I’ve seen those squiggly stings on one of mine, it died.
I’m sorry I can’t be more help, like you idk what caused it.