WTH anemone fine then almost dead or is it about to split?????

[fishoholic]

My anemone was huge and full awhile ago now it looks almost dead. I don't get it. The only thing I can think of is maybe it's getting ready to split or maybe it ate the little piece of torch coral I saw floating around the tank earlier????

Any ideas? will post pic.'s soon

[fishoholic]

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[Wayne]

My bubble tips do that... And then they inflate back up... I thought it was normal

[es355lucille]

Laurie, mine does this all the time and the clowns don't know what to do. Not saything that yours is doing the same. Did you just do a water change? Thats when I notice mine the most......I thought it was the anemone just changing its water as well. Then it will be fairly stable for the next few weeks, but can do this off and on quite often.

My 2 cents.

B

[ensquire]

I am having the exact same issue , 2 have disapeared on me. Do you see any problems on the foot. My one remaining LTA has a lesion on the foot and I am unsure if it's a pest or something else..

[fishoholic]

My GBTA did that when I first got it and maybe once in a blue moon it would look a little bit more shriveled (like after I fed it a silverside) but it was over a few hours. I've never seen my RBTA shrivel up, and I've never seen an anemone go from being fine to literally almost totally shriveled up in a matter of minutes.

My RBTA is normally the size of a grapefruit, when I noticed it didn't look right it was about the size of an orange and as I watched it, it shrunk rapidly to the size of a walnut, which is where it's at right now. It was shocking to watch it shrink right before my eyes.

[RedCoralOnlineStore]

Looks fine Laurie, Pooping or splitting likely the first... Should be fine tomorrow! Mine do it all the time, doesnt look like there is any "melting" tissue from the pic so probably not a prob!

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by es355lucille

Laurie, mine does this all the time and the clowns don't know what to do. Not saything that yours is doing the same. Did you just do a water change? Thats when I notice mine the most......I thought it was the anemone just changing its water as well. Then it will be fairly stable for the next few weeks, but can do this off and on quite often.

My 2 cents.

B

It's never shrunk before and it's been a week since my last water change, I'm mixing water right now to do my next water change tomorrow. I did feed it a piece of krill 2 days ago so maybe that has something to do with it.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by ensquire

I am having the exact same issue , 2 have disapeared on me. Do you see any problems on the foot. My one remaining LTA has a lesion on the foot and I am unsure if it's a pest or something else..

The anemone is shriveled right up against the foot and the foot is attached to the under side of a rock so I can't tell if there is anything wrong with the foot or not.

Originally Posted by RedCoralOnlineStore

Looks fine Laurie, Pooping or splitting likely the first... Should be fine tomorrow! Mine do it all the time, doesnt look like there is any "melting" tissue from the pic so probably not a prob!

I did see a little bit of brown stringy stuff come out of the anemone, but I wasn't sure what it was. When I went to take a closer look the stringy stuff floated away and was gone.

[cathyg_99]

mines been doing this all month, just try to feed him when hes ballooned back up as long as hes eating hes fine