Bta help

[cleverdave2k]

Hi can anyone help me ive atempted to rescue a bta from a lfs as it was kept under a t8 bulb and looked really really bad and to make matters worse there was a spikey sea cucumber stuck to it foot and when the shop assistant removed it he riped his foot and then he was trying to shake it off the rock then to make matters even worse there was a hole in the bag and i had to bring it home in a bucket :) the first night it looked scared but took a fish and was inflating abit but second day it all went pete tong as it deflated and didnt look to well at all and trying to move around but lands straight on his face and cant get back to normal i rested him in a hole to try and stable him but he keeps trying to move trough the rock and ends up back on his face his mouth is gaping abit my tank is 12 months old wiv no probs and kept under a 150 watt halide so there should be no problem can any one help please :confused:

[Corsetts]

I've no experience of a torn foot but all I've read suggests that this is usuall fatal.

Fair play to you for rescuing it, but in all honesty you may have been better off leaving it as the shop will just replace it with another one anyway. Although mine was a rescue nem ;) :o .

IME, bta's are fairly hardy, but do need very stable water conditions and good quality water ie low nitrate, no phosphate.

Good luck to you, and keep us posted but be ready to whip it out quick if it dies so it doesn't pollute your tank.

HTH

[Mikey]

Anemones are quite resilient, providing they have the parameters to encourage such behaviour.

How torn are we talking? You need to stop it from landing on it's disc too as it will suffocate. Lighting regime? Other anemones? Inhabitants? Parameters?

All that stuff could lend one to make an assumption, but even then, no-one is going to be able to give you 100% either way.

A pic would be good to start too..

[cleverdave2k]

How will i know when its passed away present time its foot looks inflated and a few tentacles still looks in a really bad way thou .The tear looked about an inch he just kinda ripped the cucumber off it its like a flap now not what floats up doesnt seem to be able stick that bit to anything.The strange thing is even when i put him on a flat surfece like my sandnext time i check on him he will be upside down again im not sure what use keep him in the one spot so he can recover.I leave my lighting on for 8 hour no other nems stock 4 clowns a yellow tang gramma and 6 line all test have come back clear nothinh unusual.I will try get a pic for ya im also going email that karenrose as she has a great site might be able steer me in the right way

[Corsetts]

He wont be able to stick to the sand, he'll need a crevice in the rock to attach to although it doesn't sound good :(

Best of luck

[angelfishman]

some anemones can heal themselves if conditions are right,quite a few of them never pull round.try and keep it in a crevice and watch it for any signs of it disintergrating.i have had anemones like yours and they have only lasted a couple of days before they died.if they constantly deflate themselves they are usually on their way out.derek