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ctniners
04/21/2009, 05:40 PM
Hi guys,
I have had this BTA for over 3 months, I feed it once per week, about a week ago I move it extremely careful along with the rock it was on, I was lucky it was only attached to one rock, so there was no pulling whatsoever.....I moved it because it was touching my sps.....so, to make it happy I fed it the first 3 days in the new spot, it took the silversides like a champ...however, today is his weekly feeding, I gave it some silversides as usual, just now, about 1 hour or so later I noticed that my cleaner shrimp, a nassarius snail and a hermit crab where around his foot...so I looked closer and to my surprise I see they are actually picking the silverside that I fed the anemone!!...it almost looks like it went through the body????

what do I do?,.....the mouth looked good today, the tentacles are moving, it is not moving around or stringy...but this def doesnt look good, right?, I would hate to lose him as he was in the tank before any of my corals and my 2 clowns (only fish I have) love him.

Sorry for the rambling...here are the pics I took......thanks for all your help!!


http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2652-Edited.jpg

http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2648.jpg

http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2650.jpg

http://i448.photobucket.com/albums/qq201/ctniners/CIMG2652.jpg

my issue is....that is not normal for food to find its way through his body, right?

scottallert
04/21/2009, 06:00 PM
it looks fine to me give it a couple days dont mess with it though

dalston
04/21/2009, 06:54 PM
I very much doubt the nem has a hole all the way through, I would guess it just spat the silverside out because it ate for 3 day straight or the shrimp stole it from him. As stated it doesn't look bad, just deflated, give it a couple of days. If it looks no better after that, then you should start to worry

ctniners
04/21/2009, 07:15 PM
update:

I am actually able to see the mouth of the anemone from the bottom...

t4zalews
04/21/2009, 08:54 PM
split maybe?