Help .. Sebea

[::pete::]

I have had a Sebea Anemone for @ a month and all was fine till a couple days ago when I started noticing a difference. Today, however I thought it was dying so I put it in a quartine tank and it started to move and take on different shapes (obviously not dead). I fed it twice with frozen food and watched over it as it did eat.

What concerned me was that where it eats from was spewing a mucus like substance as well as shriveling up (a small contracted size) this Anemone when opened is like a soccer ball size usually. It almost looked at times like its insides were coming out. Is it dying or going through a transition?

Thanks Pete

[Tim Marvin]

When they excrete waste it is a brown mucus looking substance. Could this be what you are looking at? It should expand back out.

[::pete::]

To be honest with you it looked like it was constapated and bubbled up first then when I retuned it was shriveled up, thats when I moved it. The substance looked like intestines as well as film excreting into the water thats why I moved him.

Pete

[Tim Marvin]

Yes, they look like the "guts" are coming out. If it stays like that then there is a problem.

[::pete::]

Ok ... thanks ... I keep an eye on it and hope for the best. The LTA is fine.

Pete

[Gin_Tseng]

Is there anything else in your quarentine tank? Because if there are things that you really want to keep I suggest you move them. I had a sabae and when it died after a few months just like you have describe the whole tank was gone. The sabae completely polluted my water and turned it into a smelly white clouded color. Make sure you don;t have powerheads in the Q tank too since it will problem want to move around to find a better location. Well that;s what my sabae did and that;s what happened to my tank.

[fishtankrob]

great i have 2 that i cant find, one that i am sure is dead, what is one to do?

[::pete::]

Fortunately, it was in a tank alone and did die. I hope I got it out of the main tank before it contaminted anything.

Pete

[Tim Marvin]

This is not always true. I have had anemones die before with no effect on other livestock.

[JimD]

Agreed, if the system is large enough, with proper amounts of bio filtration (live rock/sand)and adequite skimming, things should be ok. If on the other hand, these requirements are not met, its advised to remove it before it dies as you did.

[JimD]

The key to what I say is relative size of the anenome compared to the size of the tank its in, granted, if a 6 inch speciman died in a 10 gallon tank, the results would be disaster, however, if that same speciman was housed in a 75/100 gallon tank, chances are the natural filtration would be able to absorb most, if not all of the contaminants. this provided the tank was healthy, and well aged.

[Isis]

What color was your anemone? How long did you have it? What is your lighting? What exactly did you feed it? And how often? What other softies did you have in there? How big is your tank?