Sorry been busy. But the main params, are in check. Although, I do need to get better testing. I'm using budget testing and well, maybe you get what you pay for. Only checking ph nitrate, nitrites and ammonia, and the numbers are...
Ammo: 0
Nitratites: undetectable
Nitrates: <.5
Ph: 8.3
Salinty ~1.024
The fish had brook, killed every clown I had for about a month, stopped stocking clowns, also killed 2 cardinals out of 3. Everybody else is fine, even 3 new additions, a purple firefish, ywg, and a filefish, aptasia kind.
I'm off clowns for a min prolly wait till spring to get new ones.
The anemone went to buddy who has a spare quarantine tank and it's taken a turn for the worse. Was puking out its guts a couple of days ago. I'm no marine biologist, but if have to say it's become photophobic, wont open for anything but passive room lighting, what ever that equates to in par numbers. Hasn't bleached, but in the course on of a month or so has lost about 25%mass, prolly edging on 50%. Most tentacles are 1cm or absent. No bubbling of the tentacles.
I'm no expert, but I got a rabbi on standby. Seeing enough death in my time, to understand that this is prolly a goner.
The only thing I can take away from this is: I think the light change killed it, even with the acclimation mode it was too much for it. Therefore, if go this route again come spring, I'm gonna look for one who's been under acitinic/ high power lighting.
A. I'm assuming this, of course, in relation to the coral adaptation(granted the anem is NOT a coral, but...?) the new corals sps and mushrooms are doing well, coming from lighting under similar conditions (lfs runs ai primes). The corals before the light are just now a month later adapting and more so than not, open. The one lps frag, a gorgonian if I'm not mistaken, is the last of the malcontents, along with one species (unknown) of zoas.
B. There was a zoa hitch hiker on one of my sps frags, and it's the largest and most open under the new lighting.
I'm hoping the brook has run its course, and will send out a clown canary to test in spring. If it makes it, I'll try again. But if not oh well, clownless tank...and anemone less.
I understand that the pairing is not essential, but why have a potential predator unnecessarily/ it's really not that important to me.
I'm wrong of course, but I can't imagine a marine creature passing a meal for the following reasons:
1. Food is a premium in the wild, therefore a dead fish, recently deceased would be as welcome as a living one.
2. I only got a B in microbio, but my understanding that diseases, without spontaneous mutation, are able to affect only certain creatures.
3. Just to see what happens...
