When should I give up on my LTA?

[EtxReefer]

I’ve had my LTA for 4 months now, unfortunately my wife was feeding the fish after doing some cleaning and had ammonia on her hands and caused a big spike. Lost a few inverts, luckily no fish, but my anemone is doing very poorly now. I have the ammonia back down to 0, but wondering how long to give this nem before I toss it?

It has looked like this for about two weeks now with no change for the better, and don’t want to risk it dying and nuking the tank.

 

[EtxReefer]

Before the nuke for reference.

 

[Aquadude1]

Id say give it longer. Lta are hardy ime and can bounce back from a lot

 

[Grog]

Id say give it longer. Lta are hardy ime and can bounce back from a lot

I agree with this.

Give it some time. I was raising my salinity in my 180 earlier this year. The LTA absolutely hated the change, but once things stabilized, and I stopped increasing the salinity, it adapted over a few weeks and looks like it always did.

 

[exnisstech]

I wouldn't remove it until it turned to mush. Not saying it isn't possible but when something dies in my tanks nothing happens and no livestock reacts other than cuc members. I've shredded bubble tip nems in the tank to get them out. I've also ripped nuclear green palys out by the dozens using forceps and nothing in the tank skipped a beat.

 

[EtxReefer]

I will leave it in then, thanks guys!

 

[MoshJosh]

I agree with others don't give up, they are hardy creatures! That said, it looks like it's laying face/mouth down? I would do my best to get it with its foot facing down, either in a bowl of sand or in an area of the tank where it's not gonna constantly get flipped over. An isolation box is an option of you can give it sand and enough flow.

 

[EtxReefer]

I agree with others don't give up, they are hardy creatures! That said, it looks like it's laying face/mouth down? I would do my best to get it with its foot facing down, either in a bowl of sand or in an area of the tank where it's not gonna constantly get flipped over. An isolation box is an option of you can give it sand and enough flow.

Hard to tell from that pic, but its foot is planted on the glass. I can see it when I open the stand from the bottom.

 

[cet98]

Have you done/been doing water changes? I would recommend doing some large water changes if she had chemicals on her hands.
I would also suggest running quality carbon/Purigen as well imo.

Best of luck!!!

 

[EtxReefer]

Have you done/been doing water changes? I would recommend doing some large water changes if she had chemicals on her hands.
I would also suggest running quality carbon/Purigen as well imo.

Best of luck!!!

Have been doing quite a few water changes, all parameters have been stable the last two weeks, will pick up some carbon tomorrow though, had not thought of that yet.

 

[cet98]

Have you done/been doing water changes? I would recommend doing some large water changes if she had chemicals on her hands.
I would also suggest running quality carbon/Purigen as well imo.

Best of luck!!!

Have been doing quite a few water changes, all parameters have been stable the last two weeks, will pick up some carbon tomorrow though, had not thought of that yet.

Good to hear but your water parameters would not be a concern imo. It’s the removal of any residual chemicals that I would focus on.
Running quality carbon will hopefully help quickly

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