Need some help?

Well I got a long tenticale anemone and it has been like 5 days since I got it, and it looks like it is dying. I have 576 watts of light on my 125g tank, the water is good, just tested it. The anemone hasn't attached itself to anything yet or buried its foot, and it seems to only open a little bit. Now today it was over on it's side and had white stringy things coming out of it's foot and side, is it dying? Also this whitish stuff was expelling out of it into the water. Please help.

 

My advice is get it out now. When they die they deteriorate quickly and the toxins it's releasing now and especially after it dies will nuke your tank.

Nems need pristine water in a tank that is mature. My definition of mature is 6 months with stable, consistant water params but opinions very from person to person on that.

*edit* 4.6 watts per gallon of light isn't enough imo. How is your flow? Also I would at least a 25% w/c asap and be prepared for more over the next couple days and start running carbon now.

 

Well tank is about 7 months now, and very stable water conditions, plenty of water movement. So you are saying it is dying then, just don't want to kill it if it isn't dying. I do know it is alive as I can see it moving, but I don't want it to kill everything else I have if it is dying. I have had anemones before in a 55 gallon with only 192watts of light with great success, so I'm not sure it's a light related issue as that only figured out to 3.49 watts a gallon.

 

Watching an anenome die is one of the worst things that can happen in this hobby imo. The tightness of the mouth is a good indicator of health. It sounds like it could be stressed but still healthy and possibly just purging some tissue. But my experience is, if the mouth is hanging loose you will probably lose the anenome and when that happens the whole animal sort of breaks apart and it would be impossible to remove all the bits, even if you could change all the water there is considerable damage.