My BTA is twisted! I just looked in the tank and there are at least a couple of twists in the stem of the anemone, near the foot. I have turned off all the circulation the tank except for the powerhead on the side where the water flow would cause it to un-twist. Should I try to un-twist it by hand? I will post a picture in a couple of minutes.
I had an LTA do the same thing, but it was a new purchase and probably not a healthy specimen to begin with. Sadly it didnt survive. BTA's however seem to be a different animal and capable of recovering from far more trauma.
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300+gal multitank, seagrass, mixed reef, clown anemone, refugium, and sump.
This guy has grown from about 3" when I got him in April to 10" across, is hosted by my maroon clown and is the centerpiece of my tank. I hope it will be OK.
I wish I could reference more experince with whats going on to help, but I cant. Hopefully it works out, it sounds like you've put alot of effort in keeping it happy. I would document it as well as you can, and see if you can attribute whats happening to something. Test all parameters, review any changes you might have made recently.
__________________ ~David~
300+gal multitank, seagrass, mixed reef, clown anemone, refugium, and sump.
At least Karen's sounds more hopeful. In the meantime I have moved my powerheads to create gentle circular flow in an attempt to gently untwist it. I was already mixing SW for my weekly water change and will see if that makes any difference,
I had to go out for a bit and when I came home it was doing an onion impression.
I don't think it is still twisted but you can see that there are marks near the foot.
that's really odd...as mentioned BTA's can take a pretty fair amount of abuse and recover. i think the anemone has untwisted itself, based on the last pic, but it's tuff to say for sure.
has the anemone moved around much? it's possible that since its foot seems to be attached in such a small crevice, that in it's normal "sessile movement", it became twisted and possibly couldn't untwist easily.
the critter looks healthy tho, and none the worse for the wear...i'd simply keep an eye on the base and watch for signs of tissue necrosis.
i have a huge Sarcophyton that twisted like that, and it eventually untwisted again...go figure.
Twisted BTA - Help! 
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In the meantime I have moved my powerheads to create gentle circular flow in an attempt to gently untwist it. I was already mixing 
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