sick anemone?

[ream]

I have BTA for about 5 weeks now. For the past 2 days he's been completely closed up hanging upside down from an overhang in the back of the tank. I upgraded my lights to 396w pc's on a 46g tank about a week ago.
Water parameters are T 82, SG 1.025 Amm 0, trites 0 , trates 0
Not quite sure what to do. Should I try and flip the rock over to get a better look at him or would I just be stressing it more. Then again if it is dying I don't want it messing up the tank either. Any suggestions?

 

[calgar]

My guess is that its reacting to the lighting change.. just give it some time and it should start trying to find another spot in the next days.

 

[thomas712]

It could be reacting to many things, lighting being only one of them.
What about calcium, alkalinity, pH?
How long are you leaving your lights on and what did you upgrade lighting from?
Thomas

 

[ream]

ph is 8.1-8.2, Ca 450, alk 125. Lights were upgraded from 196pc's

 

[ream]

here's a pic

 

[thomas712]

OOooh, not good.
How long are you running the new lights?
Does it look like this when the lights are off? same as in the moring when lights on?
Something is either causing some serious stress here or perhaps there is a chemical warfare thing going on. Possably even preditor.
Thomas

 

[ream]

thomas, thanks for the response. the new lights are about 11 hrs a day. Like i said before he has been hanging upside down, the pic was taken after i flipped the rock over. He did open up partially for about 4 hours and now he's more closed up than in the picture. Pretty much looks the same when lights out. The only other things in the tank are 2 percs, goby, fridmani and a cleaner shrimp. Also have cleanup crew.