Anemone
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._Z_.
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I’m no anemone expert but I can tell you posting pictures and your water parameters will get you help quicker. Also detail how long you’ve had the anemone and your lights.
lacrosseboss18
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How old is your tank? Anemones need an established tank.
What kind of light are you using? And what’s your other equipment?
Have you tested your water parameters?
When did you purchase and add the anemone to the tank?
What kind of light are you using? And what’s your other equipment?
Have you tested your water parameters?
When did you purchase and add the anemone to the tank?
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My tank has been up for about 3 months now.
I have a kessil 160 in blue.
Water is good, ph is at 8.1, nitrite, nitrate, and ammonia are all very close to zero(I have the api test kit)
lacrosseboss18
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How big is your tank, what type of water movement? Did you use all dry rock?
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With how well your frogspawn looks I’m gonna assume your tank is fine to add a nem but it’s sooner than most would recommend. It looks kinda normally ticked off so I’d just give it some time, as for the brown stuff coming out it sounds like it’s just getting rid of it’s waste aka taking the Cosby’s to the pool. Just my input
He's probably fine. Until they settle in (which can take weeks) they often just do weird stuff. Sometimes becoming shriveled to almost nothing and then blowing back up. They do it just to keep us awake at night knowing we'll check every time we get up to go to the bathroom.
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Haha so true
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I'm sorry but I think your tank is not yet mature enough for a nem the presence of ammonia and nitrite would be a key indicator....if he doesn't make it I would hold off another until the tank is mature....maybe try some easy to keep soft coral first...sorry I hope he makes it.
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Don’t know how everyone said the anemone was fine when you said there’s a slight presence of ammonia when you test. That the first thing.
Second, you didn’t mention your calcium, alk and mag results. Do you not test for these? Are you even dosing?
lacrosseboss18
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OP might have misspoke when he said all near zero???
He just put it in the tank and might need a little time to get adjusted. If I’m correct in the time line might have only been in the tank for less than 48 hours?
I made a lot of mistakes in this hobby because I rushed things. Must be patient with this hobby. Like I said they require a mature tank and 3 months is a little young. Not to say that it can’t be done.
He just put it in the tank and might need a little time to get adjusted. If I’m correct in the time line might have only been in the tank for less than 48 hours?
I made a lot of mistakes in this hobby because I rushed things. Must be patient with this hobby. Like I said they require a mature tank and 3 months is a little young. Not to say that it can’t be done.
Conventional wisdom that we all repeat ad nauseum says that a tank should have matured at least six months before putting a Nem in. The question is why? Is this merely anecdotal or is there anything real to back this up? Did this arbitrary timeline come about because new reefers were consistently losing Nems so the conclusion was reached that Nems needed more time. Maybe it was the reefers that needed more time? Stability is the key here, but does it take an experienced reefer six months to stabilize a tank? Conventional wisdom used to be it took 4-8 weeks to cycle a tank before putting in corals. Many of us (using updated techniques) have successfully cycled a tan in a week.
So my question is what is it that would make a difference for a Nem in a stable one month old tank in the hands of a seasoned Reefer and a six month, also stable, tank? We all also know that many nems such as BTA's are actually pretty hardy so what makes them suddenly fragile in only month three? If an experienced reefer properly fishless cycled a tank quickly, brought over a large amount of seeded biomedia or liverock and used excellent equipment to monitor and automate parameters how is this different in a young tank vs an older tank?
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And I'd love some actual evidence beyond anecdotal.
So my question is what is it that would make a difference for a Nem in a stable one month old tank in the hands of a seasoned Reefer and a six month, also stable, tank? We all also know that many nems such as BTA's are actually pretty hardy so what makes them suddenly fragile in only month three? If an experienced reefer properly fishless cycled a tank quickly, brought over a large amount of seeded biomedia or liverock and used excellent equipment to monitor and automate parameters how is this different in a young tank vs an older tank?
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And I'd love some actual evidence beyond anecdotal.Agiron86
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The test kit I use is a color comparison test kit, with that can you be sure it’s truly zero or close to with the eye....
You are correct it has only been in the tank for two days, it ended up coming back out last night and looks great.
