Bubble Tip Anemone bulbous/malformed tentacles

[arcturusreef]

Hi

I have these two anemones that have the strangest tentacles. They are all mangled and curled up. Beside that, they seem relatively healthy. Their are rarely deflated unless they have eaten. No gaping mouth. No zooxanthellae discharge. I have other soft corals in the tank that show zero signs of stress. I am not sure what is wrong here and why the appear this way.

The tank is about a year and half old. Got pineapple spongers and lots of amphipods, seems to be mature for the most part. My parameters are:

100L Nano Tank
Salinity 1025
dKH +-9
Calcium 350
Magnesium 1380
Nitrates 0.5
Phosphate 0.03

I have one clown trashing about in the anemones, but I don't think that would affect them this badly.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

What about the light and flow of your tank?

Anything other than the clowns that could be bothering it?

How is everything else in your tank doing?

 

[arcturusreef]

It's a red sea max nano peninsula with the ReefLED 50. Running it at about 85% blue and 10% white. No other fish in the tank, just a single hermit and some trochus snails.

I have some green hairy mushrooms, ricordea yuma and a GSP rock...all seem to be pretty happy without showing any signs of distress. I haven't been able to spot any pests around the anemones in particular. There's a bristle worm lurking somewhere and I have seem some digitate hydroids when the lights go out, but that's about it.

Got a nero 10 for extra flow. It's running quite low atm cause the tank return pump is relatively strong. The flow on the anemones, at the moment, are on the lower side. I had them in more direct flow in the past with similar symptoms.

 

[dvgyfresh]

I think this is a case for big water change , I have never seen that before

 

[StartingATank]

I have seen my anemone do this a couple times but never long term. It usually only is like that for an hour or so. I have never found a cause but every time I see it doing this it is usually defecating

 

[arcturusreef]

Yeah, it's been like this for a few months now. I recently added another anemone and it's slowly starting to show similar symptoms. Tentacles look like little tumors etc. Must be something in the water that anemones aren't happy with. I have done some ICP tests and there wasn't anything odd except some aluminum detected. I think big water change is probably a good idea.

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

I had nems that had something like this but not at this level. The tentacles were bulbous and deformed (but definitely nothing like this). I eventually gave most away and the normal looking nems began to out number and replace them. It could be a bacterial infection or just a low quality nem and it’s clone. What did they look like before?

 

[Gumbies R Us]

@OrionN

 

[arcturusreef]

They use to look fine. They always had longer tentacles, but at the time I had my light on a lower setting and they were getting more directional flow. I added an image of a new nem I introduced probably a month ago. It's not as bad, but it's starting to show the same symptoms (crooked tentacles etc). I also added images of the two big nems about 4 months ago and how they originally looked. How they look now is much worse.

 

[dvgyfresh]

totally off the wall but I think you may be missing some trace element or have an abundance of something toxic in the water -where do you source your water how often do do you do water changes ? Maybe RODI n needs filter change , or bad batch of salt? Could be many things

 

[arcturusreef]

Municipal water. Run it through an RODI. The last ICP test I did on the salt water had a shortage on Iron, Boron and Iodine. I supplemented Iodine and did a few water changes. I am looking to do another ICP test end of the month, will do one for the RODI water to see if there's something off. I will start with a larger water change.

 

[dvgyfresh]

Municipal water. Run it through an RODI. The last ICP test I did on the salt water had a shortage on Iron, Boron and Iodine. I supplemented Iodine and did a few water changes. I am looking to do another ICP test end of the month, will do one for the RODI water to see if there's something off. I will start with a larger water change.

I get my water from the Primo stations lol I wouldn’t trust myself to keep the filters updated for RODI. But that sounds like a solid plan hopefully you can figure it out I would love to know as well - have you recently checked all pumps / heater for corrosion as well?

 

[arcturusreef]

I will have to double check. Cleaned the heater recently, so not that. The return pump is pretty much just plastic, but maybe inside there could be something. There is a temp probe that's sealed with silicon and heat shrink, but perhaps it's compromised.