BTA dying?

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Hi Everyone. This is my first post on here so I'll get right to it.

My tank had a random algae bloom last week and ever since recovery my Green Bubble Tip Anemone has been acting strange. It detached itself from the rock and shrunk to an alarmingly small size. I put it back on a different rock and it seemed fine: extended its bubbles and looked normal, then I checked back and it was on the sand again.

Note I recently added a cleaner shrimp (I have two now), and I believe it might be disturbing it. Here are some pictures of it on the rock, on the sand, and with white light on the sand.
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Anyone know what's going on or what I should do?
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Not looking good! Hard to help without knowing anything about your tank, size. age, parameters, lighting. What did you do to treat algae issue? Right off the bat your tank looks too new for a BTA.
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i looks to be declining hows the mouth look? if its gaping open not a good sign
 

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Welcome to R2R! From the looks that tank is pretty new. If it is I don't think the nem will survive. Usually want to wait 9 months to abyear before getting one. Are your parameters good? What lighting?
 
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All Parameters fine, sorry forgot to add. The salt level is normal, I run the use a Radion XR15 and using the AB+ template for 9 hrs a day. The tank is 65 gallons, a few months old now. Before the bloom, it seemed to be doing great. I have a green star polyp, sebae anemone (doing fine), clove polyp, and a green bubble coral (doing fine) - as for fish i have two small clowns and one small blue tang, and a handful of snails. I treated the bloom by adding a filter bag (forgot name), and stability liquid by seachem (recommended by local store employee).
 

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Doesn't look good. I jumped the gun on getting a nem too early also. Keep a close eye but be ready to remove it. Hopefully it works out!
 

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All Parameters fine, sorry forgot to add. The salt level is normal, I run the use a Radion XR15 and using the AB+ template for 9 hrs a day. The tank is 65 gallons, a few months old now. Before the bloom, it seemed to be doing great. I have a green star polyp, sebae anemone (doing fine), clove polyp, and a green bubble coral (doing fine) - as for fish i have two small clowns and one small blue tang, and a handful of snails. I treated the bloom by adding a filter bag (forgot name), and stability liquid by seachem (recommended by local store employee).
What you consider fine may in fact not be fine! What stability liquid?
 

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All Parameters fine, sorry forgot to add. The salt level is normal, I run the use a Radion XR15 and using the AB+ template for 9 hrs a day. The tank is 65 gallons, a few months old now. Before the bloom, it seemed to be doing great. I have a green star polyp, sebae anemone (doing fine), clove polyp, and a green bubble coral (doing fine) - as for fish i have two small clowns and one small blue tang, and a handful of snails. I treated the bloom by adding a filter bag (forgot name), and stability liquid by seachem (recommended by local store employee).
In my experience keeping nems of different species can lead to chemical warfare leaving only one nem the victor
 

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