Rose Bubble Tip deflated

[zeptonium]

I have had a Rose Bubble Tip anemone for about 10 days. Last night it completely shrunk up. I have attached two pics from before and after it deflated. The LFS I bought it from is closed today.
The LFS I bought it from had a huge one in a 40 or 50 gallon tank that went sexual and the LFS split up all babies among 3 tanks. I bought mine about 2 weeks after this. The owner of the store said the one i was buying was splitting and I would probably end up with 2. He said this would be no problem and it might decide to not split. He told me, "You should have no problem. These are very hard to kill."
I have been feeding silversides (2x 1" chunks) every three days like I was told. Today was a feeding day so I tried and it still eats. I feed the tanks phytoplankton every other day. I add Reef Solutions trace elements every 3 days (was told schedule by LFS) when I feed anemones. I add Kent ZooPlex avery once in a while.
My fish get fed a variety of food (frozen formula 2, frozen enriched brine, frozen mysis, flake formula 1, flake formula 2, live brine, small pellets, dried algae sheet). I often see the anemones grabbing frozen brine and mysis when I feed fish.
One of my tomato clownfish was in the anemone as well. This is the first time I have seen it go near the anemone.
My tanks (all tank are plumbed together with common sump): All tanks have tiny hermits, cerith, astrea, mex turbo, nassarius snails, and conchs.
55 gallon tank
48" compact fluorescents (2x 24" 10000K 65W)(2x 24" actinic 65W)(4 lunar light .75W)
60 lbs live rock
80 lbs Arag-alive sand
1 rose buble tip anemone (on top of live rock about 10" from light)
2 tomato clownfish
1 sandsifting star
1 pencil urchin
1 pincushin urchin
125 gallon tank
72" (3x 150W HQI MH 10000K)(4x 36" actinic)(4 lunar light)
100 lbs live rock
200 lbs arag-alive sand
1 carpet anemone
2 b&w ocellaris clowns
1 mandarin
1 blue heptus tang
1 black sand cucumber
1 tiger tail cucumber
1 lettuce nudibranch
1 open brain coral
1 maze brain coral
1 frogspawn coral
1 small brown acropora coral
12 different zoo polyp frags
2 crocea clams
10 gallon
13W compact fluorescent
15 mangrove plants
9 shaving brush plants
10 gallon
13W compact fluorescent
chaeto macro algae
5 lbs live rock rubble
Sump - 20 gallons
ASM G-4 plus protein skimmer
Total
220 gallons water
160 lbs live rock
280 lbs live sand
Water quality has been for the last month:
Ammonia=0
Nitrite=0
Nitrate=5
Phosphate=0
pH=8.2
Salinity=1.025
Calcium=420
Temp=78
I will recheck my water quality this after I send this. Please help me find out what is wrong. This anemone was the most expensive addition to my tank.
Thank You,
Brad

 

[scotty37]

Ive noticed my BTA do funny things when the snails brush up against it. Maybe its just reacting the clown.

 

[perfectdark]

What type of lighting is it currently under? and what type of lighting did it come from? Other than being deflated from what I can see it looks healthy. How is its general appearance other wise? Mouth gaping open? does it readily grab the food when its offered? Is it starting to look like its going inside out?
This could be just your anenome getting used to its new environment and different lighting especially if it went from PC lighting to MH. They need to be acclimated to the light and will act and look weird until they are. If all your perameters are in check and its still eating, giving it more time to adjust maybe needed.

 

[zeptonium]

My water is the same as what I posted. Here are pics from the day I put it in.

 

[zeptonium]

It does look better after it ate. Tentacles puffed back up a little bit.
It is currently under compact fluorescents two Coralife 24" bulbs 65W 10000K and two Coralife 24" bulbs 65W Actinic - 12 hours a day. So total 130W daylight and 130W actinic. I don't remember what lighting it came from (probably MH) and the store is closed today. I got the rock it was on when I bought it and placed it on top facing up towards the light like I was told by LFS. Within a few days it moved to the side of the rock facing front glass.
When I fist got it it the frilly outer edge on one side was connected to the mouth. I don't know exactly how they are supposed to look but I guess a circle with mouth in center. This is how my carpet anemone is. It looks like a rip formed from edge to mouth. It had white stuff coming out of its mouth when I first placed in tank. It has same stuff out now.
The base looks whiter now than when I first got it.
It grabs food right away and sticks out a bubble from mouth to suck it down.
It almost looks inside out. The outer edge was usually spread far over the rock surface. Now it is almost curled up.

 

[perfectdark]

Looking at the mouth it could be 2 things and IMO I would guess its the first one of these 2. First is its expelling waste, they eat and excrete from the same place, if it has had a decent meal then its waste will expel and in the process it can do exactly as it is now. The second condition is expelling its intestines. This happens when the anenome is actually dieing and its un-recoverable at this point. Seeing as though this condition has only been present for 1 day IMO its the first condition. It looks all together too healthy to be failing to that point yet.
Not sure on your lighting.. IMO I think its a tad weak and it might benifit more being in your tank under the MH's.

 

[nietzsche]

is this stuff actually coming loose from the mouth or does it just stay there?

 

[rcgogo]

I seen pictures look yours on a site I found from a Google search, (rose bta) http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/0404/rbta.html. The harassment from the clown fish killed it. You might be able to save it if you separate it from the clowns. I wish you luck.