ailing anenome

[aedeos]

my anenome has been curled up recently, and the other day his oral disk was very swollen and the innards looked expelled. today, he looked to be on the move, and he had a hole passing through him. i moved him to a safe area, but i fear he's lost.

 

[renogaw]

lights and water parameters? age of anenome?
i had one that looked nasty, like all it's guts were spilling out, but it bounced back ok

 

[aedeos]

lights are power compacts 50/50 with 10k output. The water is at ~20ppm nitrate, no ammonia, no nitrite. I've got carbonate up around 11, calcium is at around 470, phosphate is fine. I just started adding iodine, carbonate alkalinity, and calcium buffer, all liquids that can be added straight to tank. It seemed to concentrate on his side of the tank momentarily, which might be the cause? He's looking like he's taking a footing still, so I have faith, but I lost one anenome earlier in the year (the shop I bought him from kept their salinity around 1.015, and I had no idea... salinity shock). I'm just being cautious currently. I fed him a bit of silverside yesterday, not sure if he ate it. I'm just keeping a watchful eye on him for now.

 

[renogaw]

need to get that nitrates down to as close to zero as possible for anenomes. how quickly did you add all those additives? are you testing iodine before adding it?

 

[aedeos]

I wasn't told I had to test iodide. I guess I added them fairly quickly... I wasn't told otherwise. This is no good.

 

[renogaw]

first rule of thumb: don't dose anything you can't test for. especially iodine since your salt should have it in it already.
second rule of thumb: small changes = small chance of problems. therefore big changes = ? (i'll give you one guess on that one if you dose alkalinity it affects PH (raises it quite a bit actually). if you dose calcium immediately after, that hightened ph gets a little messy because calcium can raise ph as well. i dose alk then wait an hour and dose calcium.

 

[aedeos]

well, he's still looking sickly, but he's been moving around, trying to find a spot and is still alive. I'm just letting him have his space. It's still a little unnerving, but one hopes for the best, I suppose.

 

[perfectdark]

Whats your lighting in wattage and what is your tank size? They need high lighting and good flow. Also is the animal eating? Ensuring that it consumes what you give it is critical at this stage. IMO if these these perameters are not meet your animal will perish.