Please help: LTA has air and floating at water level after float about

[ShadowBL]

I’m worried, maybe prematurely or maybe too late.

Our LTA goes on float abouts every so often, sometimes a couple times in a week sometimes it’s months between. I know they tend to do this when even the slightest thing changes so it never bothered me.

Today after feeding it decides to go for a float and seemed to have grabbed the blower with the tentacles while it went by. This is where I found it 30 minutes after I walked away after the feed.

I turned the blower off. Foot was facing out. He let go and started floating again but it’s near the smallest I usually see it. Smaller than when I see it turn into a “sock ball” as we call it. Normally I’d say it’s around 4-4.5 inches across. It’s closer to 2 now when open and doesn’t seem to want to inflate more or can’t. It will get its foot slightly longer and fatter for about 20-30 seconds. Then slowly deflate again. Then cycle this routine.

Now the part that scares me is it has 2-3 small air bubbles in it. I’d say roughly pea to tictac sized. The blower is close to the protein skimmer so I’m guessing it pulled in some air trying to inflate while stuck.

I tried to gently bring it back to the rock with a rounded square Tupperware to allow it to latch but it does not seem interested. So now I worry maybe the pistol shrimp got its foot which is why it went on the float to begin with.

So I guess I have a couple questions
1. What do I do about the air?
2. Is there anything I can/should do about the floating?
3. Is there something I could see if the foot did have a problem? Even when it’s just a small lil guy?

Quick panic notes I just wanted to mention
1. It doesn’t look deformed. Just…like it just got out of the pool.
2. It did get length and width to the foot, and once even inflated what we call its “shorts” where the bottom gets fatter than the mid section. But it seemed once it realized it’s still at water level it gave up trying to latch since.


It’s been about 30 minutes since I initially shut the blower off for reference.

Thanks yall. Scold away if you must, I just want to save this nem or, if it’s already too late, remove it before the rest of the tank is at risk.

Sorry for the typos I was trying to type fast.

 

[Tahoe61]

An image of the anemone in question and the tank would be of great assistance.
Responders need specific water chemistry values, and lighting brand.

 

[ShadowBL]

Sorry I’ve been trying to add it and it kept failing. Just turned off WiFi To try.

Lighting is a fluval smart something. It’s like a 30inch bar. I don’t remember exactly I bought it a while back. In the app I just set it to pro and used settings I found on this site when I bought it.

Water is 1.025. Glass needs to be cleaned but water itself tests well. No ammonia enough to register on the test strips. Only a couple clowns and a juvenile yellow tang a goby a shrimp and a few cleaner snails in the tank. 60 gallon. Not sure what else to put

 

[James M]

That LTA is extremely bleached and going off of the information provided you don’t have an adequate set up for an anemone. I’d definitely try to see if you can give it away to somone to see if they can nurse it back to health

 

[ShadowBL]

I just got it to latch again and it puffed right back up and spit out a lot of the air.

As for as bleached it’s the same green tentacles and orange foot it had when I got it over a year ago. The pictures don’t really do it justice with dark tank and bright kitchen light behind me.
I feed it fresh shrimp 2-3 times a week, sometimes it just don’t want it.
I frequently test other water values they just didn’t seem relevant in this case.

I will do a full test tomorrow when I wake up but I think the tank needs to be calm and destress for the moment and I usually do it on mondays anyway before I do the water change.

I would like to know if I’m doing something wrong but I don’t want to give it away

 

[bradleym]

That LTA is extremely bleached and going post off of the information provided you don’t have an adequate set up for an anemone. I’d definitely try to see if you can give it away to somone to see if they can nurse it back to health

I would agree with this, there is something off about the setup. I have a purple LTA, and it has not moved for months. Sharing some more information, we can try to help you determine what is upsetting it. Also, the appearance of being bleached, I agree with this also. Here is how a green LTA should look after a few months in a happy environment.

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[ShadowBL]

I would agree with this, there is something off about the setup. I have a purple LTA, and it has not moved for months. Sharing some more information, we can try to help you determine what is upsetting it. Also, the appearance of being bleached, I agree with this also. Here is how a green LTA should look after a few months in a happy environment.

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Thank you. I will get you everything I can tomorrow. I can honestly say it’s never looked like that. It’s got the colors but it’s always been more half white in appearance.

It has stayed in some places for months but once it moves it tends to move a couple times before it settles for months again.

I just bought a 200 gallon tank for the family for Christmas and we are working on getting it all setup(it’s plumped for sump but I don’t know if I’m going to do that yet or just add 2 shutoff values to do it after Christmas costs are settled.
So I will admit I let the glass get gross but I do keep the water clean. First thing I will do is design a good spot for it in the tank to be happy so it can ignore it and go on the other end rofl.

But really I’ll try to give it quite a few cave like spots to latch into and try to keep it happy.

Tomorrow I’ll give you info on sand, rock, water, fish, and try to get a better photo so you can let me know how bad it is. When we first got it, it was a little see through and it seemed to have gotten more white in those areas than clear so I thought that was a good thing.

 

[bradleym]

I would agree with this, there is something off about the setup. I have a purple LTA, and it has not moved for months. Sharing some more information, we can try to help you determine what is upsetting it. Also, the appearance of being bleached, I agree with this also. Here is how a green LTA should look after a few months in a happy environment.

Google Image Result for https://121367762.cdn6.editmysite.com/uploads/1/2/1/3/121367762/IN5WYZ4B576CMVGP5OFQZK5A.jpeg

Thank you. I will get you everything I can tomorrow. I can honestly say it’s never looked like that. It’s got the colors but it’s always been more half white in appearance.

It has stayed in some places for months but once it moves it tends to move a couple times before it settles for months again.

I just bought a 200 gallon tank for the family for Christmas and we are working on getting it all setup(it’s plumped for sump but I don’t know if I’m going to do that yet or just add 2 shutoff values to do it after Christmas costs are settled.
So I will admit I let the glass get gross but I do keep the water clean. First thing I will do is design a good spot for it in the tank to be happy so it can ignore it and go on the other end rofl.

But really I’ll try to give it quite a few cave like spots to latch into and try to keep it happy.

Tomorrow I’ll give you info on sand, rock, water, fish, and try to get a better photo so you can let me know how bad it is. When we first got it, it was a little see through and it seemed to have gotten more white in those areas than clear so I thought that was a good thing.

It sounds like it has improved a bit, but needs to improve more to do well. If you can share the following, it will be a good place to start:

Temperature
Salinity
Alkalinity
Nitrates
Phosphates