Anemone stomach out, but why?

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Hello and good morning, I have had this carpet anemone for about a year now in my 125gal Reef tank. I moved it to a small 20gallon Reef with led/t5 lighting and as soon as I did that it’s stomach or foot stayed out of its mouth. I have checked the parameters and they are fine, also I sent for an icp test from Triton and everything was good per them as well. Is it possible for air to be trapped in the stomach? I have acans a rock anemone, and three colonies of sun corals in the tank as well and they are doing just fine. For fish I have two frozen frost bite subzero clowns, a cardinal, a six line wrass, a purple fire fish and a coral banded shrimp. The two clowns are hosted to the anemone also.

Thank you for your, help!
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Have you tried running Rox, Purigen, or 03? I'm suspecting allelopathy in the cramped quarters.
 
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I have been running Rox for a few months now. It has been like this for about six months.
 
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Yes Bob, I thought it was chemical war fair also so I started using Rox carbon; but even with replacing it every three weeks it did not make a difference.
 

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Seeing as you're experienced with it and your tanks, you may try seeing if you can manually put it back inside yourself and see if it stays.
 

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worth a shot, 6 months leads me to believe its more of a prolapse condition the allelopathy, hopefully the muscles are still strong enough to respond, but you may be able to manually fix it.
 
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Thank you Amoo for your knowledge in this matter, will try it! If I remember, I will post my results later.
 
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It is definitely the stomach because the foot is anchored to the bottom of the tank.

I did try to push the stomach in, but about 10min later it was out again.

Plan B anyone?
 

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I wish I could help, such a beautiful nem I hope it recovers!
 
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Tried dollar store duck tape did not work going to get gorilla tape tomorrow;) Welp guess I will pray for it or put it in a bigger tank maybe, will have to ask the wife(excuse for a new tank though)
 

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What happens when it catches food? Can you temporarily remove the rock beam to see if that has any affect?
 
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Not sure what you mean by rock beam? However, when it catches food it struggles a little if I place the food on the tentacles. Normally I put the food on top of the stomach and it does not have much of a problem.
 
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Ok yes, I can temporarily remove the anemone. Here is a pic of what it looks like after I tried pushing the stomach back in last night.

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