Inside out anemone

[Campy10]

Does anyone know why my anemone goes inside out? Otherwise the anemone seems healthy and hosts a clownfish.

 

[Dolphins18]

I have some do it in some tanks and others not ever do it. I only have this issue in my young tanks that are not fully established. In my experience that means they aren’t super happy. The others looks fairly closed up as well. How are your nitrates? Have they been in there a long time?

 

[j.falk]

It's not inside out...it's balled up. BTAs do this all the time...don't worry about it...it's fine.

 

[Dolphins18]

All of those bubble tips are receding... unless you just turned the lights on they shouldn’t look like that.

 

[CCauthers]

They do that when they get irritated, or when they are feeding. not an immediate cause for action

 

[Campy10]

Lights had just turned on. Now its normal. The tank had been setup for two years and i moved 2 months ago. The nems were not very happy after the move but seem better but they are balling up a lot more frequently than they used to. Nitrates are around 8 which is what i was aiming for. They used to be near zero at the previous location but i replaced my 5 ft sump with huge fuge with a much smaller one.

 

[Dolphins18]

Yea I like to give them a little nitrates 8 is spot on. Idk man, they are sensitive to elements far beyond the standard things we test for. I am having icp testing done on all my tanks to try and figure out what causes these differences.

 

[Campy10]

Latest picture after light have been on for 2 hours.

 

[j.falk]

See...worried for nothing. They look good.

 

[Dolphins18]

Added these guys about 12 hours and apart from one detaching all has gone pretty good so far. I threw the one into another tank after he detached lol.

 

[j.falk]

Where are you guys getting all of your RBTAs from? I never see them for sale anywhere local or online.

 

[Dolphins18]

Mine breed in one tank, and split in the other two. One thing I have found very true with BTA’s is they certainly do not like alkalinity being dosed at once. If you need to dose alk it’s best to do it extremely slowly.

 

[Campy10]

I started with 1 about 3 years ago and now have at least 12. Really too many of them.