is it dead?

[Douglas Wattier]

I ordered a nem from a hobbyist, a black widow bta. It arrived today and I quickly got the bag in the tank to float. I only left it in for about 20 minutes bc to me he wasn't looking good, I have it drip acclimating now. Its mouth is wide open which from everything Ive read is not good. Could this just be stress from shipping?

 

[sfin52]

It could be stress. Give it time.

 

[Chitown tom]

Is it in the tank now or still drip acclimating?

Sometimes shipping can do that. I would get him into the display now and stop the drip acclimation.

Give it some time.

 

[Douglas Wattier]

Is it in the tank now or still drip acclimating?

Sometimes shipping can do that. I would get him into the display now and stop the drip acclimation.

Give it some time.

Its still drip, I'll go ahead and put it in the tank.

 

[Amoo]

looks stressed from shipping, read through this:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/introduction-of-a-new-nem-follow-along.324332/

 

[sfin52]

Always remember to be patient

 

[Douglas Wattier]

Thanks guys.. it is looking better already.

 

[Dizzirn]

I'm looking for one

 

[Douglas Wattier]

I'm looking for one

Its definitely beautiful.

 

[Cherub]

looked dead to me too xD I'm glad it lived. Glad I seen this too so now I know. Most shops in Denver have nems

 

[Douglas Wattier]

I'm looking for one

If you have Facebook, i can give you the guys name who sold it to me

 

[4FordFamily]

Nems stress a lot during shipping but come back quickly once in the tank. I'd keep drip acclimating to a minimum -- as ammonia burn for anemones can happen like it can for fish once the bag is open.

 

[Douglas Wattier]

So next update. When i woke up this morning, the new made his way to my power head. I have a vortech mp-10 with a foam cover over it. it looked like he planted face first into the foam and some of his tips were chopped off and thrown all over the tank. I immediately turned the power head off, had to carefully pull it off the foam, and replace him on a rock. I know this is a normal occurrence, but what is the survivability? My first anemone stuck right to the place i put him and never moved, this guy was the exact opposite.

 

[Jk120]

So next update. When i woke up this morning, the new made his way to my power head. I have a vortech mp-10 with a foam cover over it. it looked like he planted face first into the foam and some of his tips were chopped off and thrown all over the tank. I immediately turned the power head off, had to carefully pull it off the foam, and replace him on a rock. I know this is a normal occurrence, but what is the survivability? My first anemone stuck right to the place i put him and never moved, this guy was the exact opposite.

Good chance it will bounce back just lower flow for awhile.

 

[Douglas Wattier]

thanks.. i took it down to 40% also turned my light on acclimation mode, to keep it from getting too much light. and to try and keep everything else happy

 

[Jk120]

thanks.. i took it down to 40% also turned my light on acclimation mode, to keep it from getting too much light. and to try and keep everything else happy

I started with 1 nem and it has split into 4. If you won't yours to split just feed it brine shrimp 2 or 3 times a day for about a week. After it settled in.

 

[Douglas Wattier]

I started with 1 nem and it has split into 4. If you won't yours to split just feed it brine shrimp 2 or 3 times a day for about a week. After it settled in.

Maybe one day, I think I'm gonna let this guy be for a while. He's had a lot of stress in the last 48 hours. My rbta that i got was the perfect specimen. he stayed right where i placed him haha.

 

[Yuki Rihwa]

I got 3 BTA and they didn't move out where I originally placed them, I got indirect flow on them at first then slowly direct my flow on them overtime and now they got 75% direct flow on them and they didn't move anywhere yet for last 3 weeks, I guess I'm lucky to have lazy BTA's :)

 

[Dizzirn]

When one of my nems got caught I'm fan I put it in a HT with cipro as @Amoo discusses in his posts...
The nem is now healthy and growing like crazy

 

[Amoo]

This is why I recommend people run Carbon with Nems, please tell me you have some online?

Hard to tell extent of damage from your pics. If you watch the BRS video or most any from people who have forcefully propagated Nems, when they are wounded, inside the DT's isn't always the best place for them.