Anenome closing more often than ever.

[Eldin]

Hey everyone, anenome has been acting strange the past 3 to 5 days appears to be closed pretty consistently. Still opens and clown will host as if everything is good, appears to be secreting a mucus type substance pretty often. Water parameters are spot on as far as ammonia,nitrate,nitrite with nitrate at 5 and ammonia 0 and nitrate 0. Was curious what would cause it to be doing this

 

[Taylor t]

Picture worth a thousand words

 

[Eldin]

That was as of this morning. Thats about as big as it will open, not sure of you can see the mucus type thing on it.

 

[Eldin]

Here is it later today.

 

[reef lover]

How old is the tank?
Type of lighting?

 

[D-Nak]

The tank looks very new -- no algae on rocks and sand looks very clean.

However, BTAs are very durable. Give it a few more days to acclimate.

 

[Eldin]

Tank is roughly 5months old, anemone has been in for about 2 of the 5. Using a fluval marine light. That particular spot where the anemone is doesnt see much light so i believe is why there doesnt seem to be much algae. As far as the sand goes, it was lightly vacuumed roughly 4 days ago and my sand sifters are doing a pretty good job on it.

 

[45ZoaGarden]

What are all the parameters? Sg, ca, alk, mg, phosphate, ph?

 

[Eldin]

Unsure of ca,mg,phosphate, waiting for test kit to arrive. Sg is at 35, alk was 7, ph 8.0 using red sea kit

 

[D-Nak]

Which Fluval light? That could be the culprit.

 

[Eldin]

Which Fluval light? That could be the culprit.

Its the marine spec 3.0

 

[Eldin]

Just an update. Decided to go ahead and re-aquascape since i could get the nem unattached from the rock and got it set up where its getting better light and appears to be doing better