Hi guys,
I bought a large carpet anemone from petco yesterday, drop acclimated it and transferred to my DT. At first it looked fine, same as in the shop, but after a few hours it appeared deflated with gaping mouth and white smoke like fluid coming from mouth.
Water parameters are all ok - my salinity was a little high at 1.25 (petco was at 1.23) so I lowered salinity to 1.24 via 1 gallon RODI water transfers. My tank is 6 months old, has been fallow for 4 weeks, is 75 gallon system, PH is ~8.2 but could be a little higher, phosphate and nitrate should be very low (did big water change couple days ago and have a skimmer running, 0 nitrate and ammonia, calcium at 440.
Occasionally the anemone closes its mouth to about 1 inch diameter but most of the time is 2 inch diameter, guts on display in all cases.
please advise what could be wrong. It seems like shock but weird that it took a few hours to happen. Will this likely resolve itself or is anemone likely to die?
Thanks
I bought a large carpet anemone from petco yesterday, drop acclimated it and transferred to my DT. At first it looked fine, same as in the shop, but after a few hours it appeared deflated with gaping mouth and white smoke like fluid coming from mouth.
Water parameters are all ok - my salinity was a little high at 1.25 (petco was at 1.23) so I lowered salinity to 1.24 via 1 gallon RODI water transfers. My tank is 6 months old, has been fallow for 4 weeks, is 75 gallon system, PH is ~8.2 but could be a little higher, phosphate and nitrate should be very low (did big water change couple days ago and have a skimmer running, 0 nitrate and ammonia, calcium at 440.
Occasionally the anemone closes its mouth to about 1 inch diameter but most of the time is 2 inch diameter, guts on display in all cases.
please advise what could be wrong. It seems like shock but weird that it took a few hours to happen. Will this likely resolve itself or is anemone likely to die?
Thanks