Update on the anemone with no tentacles.

[Agsellers04]

So I posted here a couple of months ago about an anemone who will not extend its tentacles. It extended them fine for the first couple weeks but all of a sudden the tentacles just stopped extending. Now it is just a foot and a mouth. The anemone eats, moves around, poops, and everything like normal it just won’t expand. It seems healthy other than not having any tentacles. My clowns did beat it up pretty good when it had tentacles. It is about 2” across.
I have tried increasing lighting, decreasing lighting, feeding, not feeding, etc. It has been well attached To the same rock for about a month.
Anyone have any ideas why it wont stretch its tentacles???

 

[Tahoe61]

Looks like it is slowly starving for what ever reason. It probably does not have tentacles any longer.
Do the clowns try to reside in it still?

 

[Agsellers04]

No. The clowns have moved on. It cant be starving because it still eats and poops every day.

 

[Tahoe61]

It may have lost it zooxanthellae. What are you feeding it? What type of lighting?
Looks like the anemone is basically reabsorbing the tentacles as a last effort in self preservation.

 

[Agsellers04]

It is under a Mars Aqua 130W.
I feed a varied diet, all vitamin enriched. It gets krill, mysis, emerald cuisine, marine cuisine, reef roids, red sea ab+, and amino acids.

 

[Tahoe61]

When you say pooping, the anemone is probably expelling zooxanthellae as well as waste.
Without tentacles I doubt the anemone is capable if maneuvering smaller pieces of raw meaty sea foods, like fish, but that is a much better food choice.
A BTA under the right lighting does not require daily feedings or even weekly.
I have not kept a BTA under LED, but what intensity is the anemone under?


Edit: I was assuming it is a BTA, what type of anemone is it?

 

[Agsellers04]

Yes it is a BTA. It is under 10,000K. I don’t keep it blasting at 100% all day though. I ramp it up.

 

[Tahoe61]

Please do a search of "BTA starving" on R2R and or Google.
Your anemone is withering away from lack of nutrition. You may have gotten a poor specimen to begin with.
Good. Luck :-)