Emergency dead nem
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It’s looked like this For a few days now at first I thought it was maybe splitting but I’m unsure the tank is 40 gallons flow is Nero 5 running random flow up to 30% lights are ai prime running full spectrum full blast on violet uv and blues 11 hours with two hour ramp times. Parameters:
Salinity: 1.026
Nitrates: 20 ppm
Alk: 8.7 dkh
Cal: 440 ppm
Phos: .5 ppm
Salinity: 1.026
Nitrates: 20 ppm
Alk: 8.7 dkh
Cal: 440 ppm
Phos: .5 ppm
In general, green bubble tip anemone’s are not as hardy as the alternative rose bubble tip anemones. I would suggest lowering your nitrate levels. BTAs do well with nutrients in the water but not that much. Try to get it under 10ppm. Probably closer to 5ppm would be ideal.
Has anything else changed in the last two months? Any new fish, inverts, equipment or maintenance? Have you fed the anemone?
Has anything else changed in the last two months? Any new fish, inverts, equipment or maintenance? Have you fed the anemone?
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I added 1” yellow tang but I couldn’t see him bothering it. I also added reef octopus 90 hob skimmer and I did feed it a few times about a month ago but it would always spit it back out if I were to try feeding it now they tentacles wouldn’t stick to the food
ScubaFish802
Just keep swimming
Careful not to put it in too intense of light. Don’t want to double stressHe’s been moved towards the top of the tank hopefully he will bounce back
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It’s roughly at 150 par should I worry?
ScubaFish802
Just keep swimming
I wouldn’t think so
Taylor t
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This is just my opinion. It’s hard to give accurate advice with missing info. But what’s been given so far, your rock looks pretty “lifeless” no offense, could be new, many other factors. That said, even though I don’t do water changes myself, this is a good scenario that I would do 5 gallon daily changes, aged 24 hours each change. I would guess, just a guess, it’s not getting enough light combined with chemistry issues. 150 par is low. Daily water changes will get the chemistry issue aside, and give it more/better light. It can come back.
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I mean my tank is 6 months old this month and I have coraline algae starting on most of my rock. The rock used is from my first tank thats been up a year in November and if you read in earlier post my Parameters are adequate and don’t fluctuate. I run 2 ai prime 16s on 2 foot wide by 2 foot tall tank. The circle is where the nem was it was in the cave and never reached out for light and the arrow is where it was placed today.
Taylor t
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I did read your earlier posts. The way these measurements are taken doesn’t accurately reflect what’s going on truly, Reefs go through “cycles” that can’t be accurately measured. That’s why I said do 5 gallon changes ages 24 hours to eliminate any question on parameters. Eliminate the water parameter from the equation and focus on light and flow changes, and you will meet its requirements.
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Alright I’ll try the water changes do you have any recommendations for hybrid t5 with my ai primes over my tank dimensions
Taylor t
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...rock that is only a year old isn’t “stable”, or bulletproof in my thinking. Just my experience. They are many cycles it goes through that can’t be measured. It is good to have 1 year old rock, don’t get me wrong, but time and rock can’t be easily replicated, and to provide what anemone needs can be met with water changes, to eliminate water quality from the unknown, and changes in light and flow, it’s not easy to explain over text. Good thing, BTA is pretty durable.
If I was you and I’m not, I’d do daily 5 gallon changes for a week, then maybe after that every few days, just to eliminate the water quality out of the equation. And with that, I’d change the lighting, looks less than ideal. Lighting and flow has to be made, when water is good, I would base adjustments on how it reacts.
If I was you and I’m not, I’d do daily 5 gallon changes for a week, then maybe after that every few days, just to eliminate the water quality out of the equation. And with that, I’d change the lighting, looks less than ideal. Lighting and flow has to be made, when water is good, I would base adjustments on how it reacts.
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What do you mean?
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They’re both bubble tips to my knowledge and most peoples knowledge bubble tips tolerate other bubble tips perfectly fine the nem looks dead because it lacked light and feeding
That's not the common knowledge around here. Sure some have had success but others will agree with me that there is a chance your bubble tip anemones are killing each other with chemical warfare. Furthermore, GBTA vs RBTA makes it even worse. Of course it could be something else, but that's where my odds are with your description.
