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Yes this is my first salt tank, i have other fresh water tanks at home and they are piece of cake to deal with. Salt tank is definitely a challenge
I dont really have much in this tank
few turbo snails, one hermit crab,2 clowns and a small star fish.
And now 1 sick nem and 1 pretty much dead leather coral (kenya tree)
I dont really have much in this tank
few turbo snails, one hermit crab,2 clowns and a small star fish.
And now 1 sick nem and 1 pretty much dead leather coral (kenya tree)
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I have more hope for the kenya than the nem...i see polyps on it and its not mush...now the nem having his mouth wide open and expelling guts is a bad sign.
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They do shed but that doesnt sound like it....if its turning to mush i would remove...looks lively by the pic though...
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IMHO, I think both are probably starving do to lack of photosynthesis from a light fixture that isn't intense enough. I have a 40g cube and I have 250 watts of lighting for zoas and anemones... you have a smaller tank, but 16 watts just isn't even close. I have a 16g holding tank and even it has 160 watts. Sorry.
I think the nem is closer to dead than the tree coral. Beg, borrow or buy a new fixture of at least 100 watts and there is a slim chance for the nem and a slightly better chance for the coral. A Mars Aqua led fixture is only $100 and would be just what you need. It's got 55 3 watt leds driven at 1.85 watts which is 100 watts!
I think the nem is closer to dead than the tree coral. Beg, borrow or buy a new fixture of at least 100 watts and there is a slim chance for the nem and a slightly better chance for the coral. A Mars Aqua led fixture is only $100 and would be just what you need. It's got 55 3 watt leds driven at 1.85 watts which is 100 watts!
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I agree Nene need strong lighting I have always used t5
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Could be let's wait and see what parameters are
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I have to agree it’s the light. I have AI lights with the blues at 100% and the whites pretty high too and I have a watermelon bubble tip and moved it self to the sand bed and looked awful. Tentacles shrinking and looking like it would die. So we moved it up as high as we could on the rocks. Stopped feeding it, just Reef Roids. It split and is now two gorgeous and huge anemones. Haven’t directly fed in 6 months. Here’s before and after moving closer to the lights and these are strong lights. Sometimes the tentacles are bubbles and sometimes stretched out. But overall huge compared to the size when we moved them up. And they have not moved themselves since we did. Lots of flow for them too where I have them. Unfortunately I think the nem is probably going to die. 
Sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss.
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I would do a water change, add carbon, increase water flow and oxygen and as soon as you can, get a water sample to a trusted LFS and have them do a water test and compare readings to see if you are off on any such as No3, salinity, etc.
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When people say "parameters are fine" or "parameters check out", without actually posting them, more often than not they haven't checked them or even know what the params are.
Your lighting (lack of) is probably what's killing the corals. If you can't keep a Kenya tree alive, well...
I'd start heeding the advice of the others here. Good luck!
Your lighting (lack of) is probably what's killing the corals. If you can't keep a Kenya tree alive, well...
I'd start heeding the advice of the others here. Good luck!
The stock light can grow softies, and some LPS. However, putting a bubble tip in this tank... especially on the sand bed seems like a very bad idea. I don't see how it could survive long term.
This is a year old evo with the types of corals it can support.
This is a year old evo with the types of corals it can support.
Light is definitely a problem.
I would do a water change as soon as you possible I would suggest that you add some activated carbon. You also need to post your params as soon as possible so we can help determine the problem.
The bubble tip and kenya tree are in pretty bad shape but it is still possible to save them. I have seen worse survive.
I would do a water change as soon as you possible I would suggest that you add some activated carbon. You also need to post your params as soon as possible so we can help determine the problem.
The bubble tip and kenya tree are in pretty bad shape but it is still possible to save them. I have seen worse survive.
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This is my first time starting a new conversation but, I am really heartbroken over a baby blue hippo tang (1.5"-2") that committed suicide/ had an assisted suicide in an Vortech MP40.
I removed the sponge filters off the MP40s and cleaned them like usual, however this time I did not replace them so soon. It was nutrient transport time and the 120Gallon needed the fish poop to get to the overflows and down to my rollermat so I figured I would leave them off for now and replace them once the water calmed down a bit. THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK. When I finally noticed about an hour later, my little blue hippo tang had made his way into the slots on the side of the MP40 and gotten pushed up against the front of the powerhead where the plastic blocks the front (where the water comes out). He was a bit scarred up and I could tell he went through the propeller. It was as if half of his body was incapacitated. One of his fins was moving and I thought he might just be stunned and come back, but he sank to the bottom where he spent his last few hours breathing heavily and doomed to lay on one side until he finally died.
I did not know what to do with him after I found him injured. Should I have snapped his neck to get the pain over with? Should I have flushed him to his quick death? I keep asking myself if I should have let him suffer like that just dying at the bottom of the tank.
What would you have done?
I removed the sponge filters off the MP40s and cleaned them like usual, however this time I did not replace them so soon. It was nutrient transport time and the 120Gallon needed the fish poop to get to the overflows and down to my rollermat so I figured I would leave them off for now and replace them once the water calmed down a bit. THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK. When I finally noticed about an hour later, my little blue hippo tang had made his way into the slots on the side of the MP40 and gotten pushed up against the front of the powerhead where the plastic blocks the front (where the water comes out). He was a bit scarred up and I could tell he went through the propeller. It was as if half of his body was incapacitated. One of his fins was moving and I thought he might just be stunned and come back, but he sank to the bottom where he spent his last few hours breathing heavily and doomed to lay on one side until he finally died.
I did not know what to do with him after I found him injured. Should I have snapped his neck to get the pain over with? Should I have flushed him to his quick death? I keep asking myself if I should have let him suffer like that just dying at the bottom of the tank.
What would you have done?
