3 year old BTA slowly withering away.

[b4tn]

It’s strange just a few months ago this thing had tentacles almost 18” long and now it’s the size of a rock flower when it decides to open. I had a cleaning mishap where I accidentally sucked a tentacle off with the vac months ago and it has never really come back after that. I did start running GFO and dosing nitrate in the time span but that’s about the only Major changes.

Sal 1.026
temp 78.8
Mag 1440 (last tested 30 days ago)
Calc 420
Alk 8.1
P .025
N 8

everything else looks good, lots of PE in both SPS and LPS. It was taking raw frozen table shrimp but I recently picked up some silversides and it won’t take them. I also have a pair of clowns that are all over it and I wonder if they are loving it to death. Any ideas?

 

[ahiggins]

Probably not the most popular opinion but if nothing else is showing signs of a problem I wouldn’t change everything in the tank to meet the nem needs. You don’t want the solution to be worse than the problem.
I’ve hear of people doing dips for nems but I never have. Hopefully they will chime in