What does this mean on an anemone

[Basterb]

It died.

was loosing it's red base in stringy pieces all over the tank. Wansn't holding on to any rock.

I guess the tank was too new!

Thanks for all the help.

[Reef_Geek]

sorry to hear.

sounds like it's a new tank... so a newly added anemone?

From selling these things over the years... very important to avoid damaging the foot on anemones when selling them. Best practice for a sales tank is to bury a layer of window screening about 2 inches below the surface. Anemones can be gently peeled off the window screen for sale. I personally cringe when I see anemones being worked on, to come off rock/glass for sale.

[Basterb]

I started with a 60 gallon that I had for 3 months and then upgraded to a 90 gallon that i've had up for 4 weeks. So really quite new.

The anemone was a gift that was only in the tank 5 days. It's possible it was damaged when removed from the store.

[mike31154]

That's unfortunate. I added a BTA when my system was quite new, probably should have waited but didn't know any better at the time. Surprisingly the thing made it through thick & thin, split many times to date & currently have the original & 2 clones in the tank. They're spreading out & doing a number on a couple of corals close by. If you decide to try another, BTAs are a bit tougher & more tolerant of less than ideal conditions than some of the other species.