Anenome help

[Shawnman]

My baby rbta has not opened in a month. It's about the size of a pencil eraser. It's still attached and it's tentacles are still orange. Water parameters seem acceptable and stable. Everything else in the tank appears fine. The nem was doing fine for months prior. Flow and lights have not changed.

 

[Shawnman]

Bump

 

[Nano_Man]

Have you a photo in white light what is your mag reading

 

[sfin52]

My baby rbta has not opened in a month. It's about the size of a pencil eraser. It's still attached and it's tentacles are still orange. Water parameters seem acceptable and stable. Everything else in the tank appears fine. The nem was doing fine for months prior. Flow and lights have not changed.

Pic in white light would help. But nems are weird. You may have seen it in a deflated state.

 

[Shawnman]

Have you a photo in white light what is your mag reading

Mag is 1280

 

[Shawnman]

Lights are 90 blue and 35 whites. It still seems to be moving itself around the pinnacle its on.

 

[Shawnman]

I have an rfa and a trachy that are all doing fine. Pic below is ramping off lights for the night

 

[sfin52]

Lights are 90 blue and 35 whites. It still seems to be moving itself around the pinnacle its on.

It's looking for. Happy spot did you change anything

 

[Shawnman]

I rotated a rock above it just a bit so it wasn't shadowed so much. All of a sudden one night probably a month ago it moved from the spot where I placed it to where it is now. It remained in the previous spot for months. Since moving where it is now it hasn't opened at all for a month now.

It appears like it perhaps fell from its previous spot because its directly below where it was and would have had to travel a really long way if it moved by foot.

 

[Shawnman]

It's so diminutive now that I think any handling will just injure it. I'll just hope it hangs in there and bounces back.

 

[sfin52]

I rotated a rock above it just a bit so it wasn't shadowed so much. All of a sudden one night probably a month ago it moved from the spot where I placed it to where it is now. It remained in the previous spot for months. Since moving where it is now it hasn't opened at all for a month now.

It appears like it perhaps fell from its previous spot because its directly below where it was and would have had to travel a really long way if it moved by foot.

I hope it recovers.

 

[Shawnman]

So here's the latest picture of this nem. He's still hanging in there and has been moving around quite a bit but hasn't extended for a very long time. Every day the last cpl weeks it's been in the same vicinity but has moved so I assume it's maybe okay and just a phase.

 

[Shawnman]

Prior to it becoming retracted like this i did feed it some krill in an attempt to get it to grow larger so maybe it doesn't need to be extended now? ‍I fed it krill maybe once a week for 3 weeks. Has been shrunk like this for months now

 

[Shawnman]

 

[vetteguy53081]

Mag is 1280

Reduce the white to about 20. Too much light and they hide and/or move. Too little and they shrink. Assure also salinity is not low and phosphate not high. Feed mysis shrimp 2-3x a week

 

[Shawnman]

It's been shrunk the size of a pencil eraser for over a month now. I it's so small i don't think I can feed it shrimp. There are no tentacles or mouth even visible. My whites were at 35.I'll back them down to 20 and see. Phosphates have been averaging. 03-.07. Hanna tester never seems to read same thing twice. Sometimes the same sample reads. 05,.07, 1.0‍

 

[Shawnman]

It's been shrunk the size of a pencil eraser for over a month now. I it's so small i don't think I can feed it shrimp. There are no tentacles or mouth even visible. My whites were at 35.I'll back them down to 20 and see. Phosphates have been averaging. 03-.07. Hanna tester never seems to read same thing twice. Sometimes the same sample reads. 05,.07, 1.0‍

Reduce the white to about 20. Too much light and they hide and/or move. Too little and they shrink. Assure also salinity is not low and phosphate not high. Feed mysis shrimp 2-3x a week

Problem is it has been shrunk but still moving around... A lot for a lil guy. Do you think it maybe needs more light then if it has been shrunk? Pics are attached previously, thanks

 

[vetteguy53081]

Problem is it has been shrunk but still moving around... A lot for a lil guy. Do you think it maybe needs more light then if it has been shrunk? Pics are attached previously, thanks

Possibly. Go up 10% and see if a response from the increase otherwise decease if no change after 48 hours