Please Help! :( Anemone Is Dying Condition! :(

[Kari Maureen]

So my Condi Anemone has been acting very puny lately ever since I did a 20 percent water change on my 55 gallon. My tank has been set up for over two years, and when I was put in charge of it, it was time for a water change. The nitrates are out the roof (even after the water change, at 140)... My water is fine... 1.023... My nitrites are non-existant... My ammonia is 0, and my pH is perfect... The only thing I can tell is my anemone is upset at the water change. I made sure the water was the exact same as in my tank, 1.023, and I added it very slowly through a period of 2 days.... At first I thought it was my clarkii clownfish, since I caught him nibbling at his tenticles, but now, hes just completely rotting away at the base... His arms are falling off slowly... Do I just flush him? I don't want him to kill off my tank, but I don't feel comfortable flushing a live creature. Any advice anyone?? Sorry the pictures are not the best, I took them in a hurry on my camera phone...

I just changed his diet from Krill to silversides... and I have been using DT on him for a week or so.. nothing seems to be making him better



Tankmates = 2 Clarkii Clownfish (Both female at that! UGH! lol)
1 stars and stripes puffer
3 yellow tailed damsels
1 lemon damsel
1 frogspawn
and of course, the dying one - Condi Anemone

 

[Lynden]

It may have a chance for healing as the tentacles still look fine. Perhaps wait until it turns into a shapeless blob to remove it as you can then be sure. Get some new SW mixing in case he does die (unfortunately with a rotting foot that is quite likely). Unlike what some people say a dying nem is not a bomb that instantly nukes your tank when it dies; only if it is left to rot away will there be an ammonia spike.

Secondly, I have seen nems that appeared to be rotting until the anemone shed the bit of debris off; it was just a bit of sand stuck to his foot.