LT Anemone Help

[miloreif]

Hi everyone. So I bought a LT anemone yesterday and I drop acclimated very slowly and added it to my tank. I read online that it likes to dig into 3”-4” of substrate so I made a hole in my fine sand and attempted to settle it in there but it had other plans. It puffed up perfectly and looks healthy but rolled around my aquarium all night and now it has wedged itself between the back of my rock aqua scape and the glass. I can barely see it and though it looks healthy, it looks to be excreting good which I know is not a good sign. I also woke up to a full skimmer which makes me think it’s excreted a lot of stuff. I’ll list my parameters below. Everything else in the tank seems fine. Should I move it? Let it do its thing? Is there anything I can do?

30 gallon, Med Flow, LPS dominated tank.
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 1.00 ppm
pH: 8.1
Salinity: 1.026
Calcium: 380 ppm
Alkalinity: 10.9 dKH
Magnesium: 1220 ppm
Phosphate: 0 ppm

 

[Uncle99]

When they don’t stick, that’s an issue. The foot should easily stick when no or low flow.

Looks bleached. If true, that’s problematic. Some can come back.

As long as he’s in one piece, just watch, definitely don’t feed, or move or make any changes for awhile.

If he starts to come apart, discard.

You post zero phosphate, zero is a bad number, bump to .1ppm.

Nitrate to, bump to 5-10ppm.

 

[miloreif]

When they don’t stick, that’s an issue. The foot should easily stick when no or low flow.

Looks bleached. If true, that’s problematic. Some can come back.

As long as he’s in one piece, just watch, definitely don’t feed, or move or make any changes for awhile.

If he starts to come apart, discard.

You post zero phosphate, zero is a bad number, bump to .1ppm.

Nitrate to, bump to 5-10ppm.

Okay, thanks for the advice. I don’t think she bleached bc he’s the same color and the foot is still red/orange. But I agree, there’s def a problem. I’ll leave it alone and bump up those numbers.

 

[Uncle99]

Okay, thanks for the advice. I don’t think she bleached bc he’s the same color and the foot is still red/orange. But I agree, there’s def a problem. I’ll leave him alone and bump up those numbers.

Yup, she may not, some are white as normal.
Best to let her settle.

 

[tnw50cal]

I know nothing about keeping a LTA as I've only had this one for the last 3 years( a sand dwelling anemone in a bare bottom tank, oh the humanity). With that said if they don't attach their foot is damaged from being collected and they WILL die. If ANY anemone is bleached the BEST thing to do is feed them until they grow back their zooxanthellae.

 

[miloreif]

I know nothing about keeping a LTA as I've only had this one for the last 3 years( a sand dwelling anemone in a bare bottom tank, oh the humanity). With that said if they don't attach their foot is damaged from being collected and they WILL die. If ANY anemone is bleached the BEST thing to do is feed them until they grow back their zooxanthellae.

wow! impressive monster. I think the foot on mine is fine because it's sticking to the glass and i don't see any cuts or anything.