Enough room for him?

[crbise65]

Haha its always a time for a bigger tank! Tonight after the lights are off check its sweeper tentacles to make sure it's not stinging any other corals.

 

[justjes45]

Help! Yesterday he was perfect and bigger than I have ever seen him today his mouth is open??? Is this bad? Just checked the parameters and all is fine!

 

[crbise65]

Did you just turn the lights on recently?

 

[justjes45]

Yes?

 

[justjes45]

Ack!! I think a ball of algae is stuck in its mouth!?! Is this possible??

 

[justjes45]

 

[crbise65]

Sometimes mine will open its mouth and deflate most of its bubbles what I was told is its kinda doing a water change basically. It does it ever now and then for the past year. So I don't think you have anything to worry about, try to check back with it a little later to see if it closes it's mouth.

 

[crbise65]

As for the algae they can spit stuff out of their stomach like an anemone so if that's what it is I think it will remedy it's self.

 

[justjes45]

Ok-- big sigh of relief... I am new and love my tank- don't want to kill anything out of neglect, or stupidity,... Thanks!

 

[crbise65]

I know how you feel I think we've all been there haha. But if you don't mind can I ask a few questions about your tank?

 

[justjes45]

Of course! ( hope I have answers...[emoji12]) it will help me learn!

 

[crbise65]

Alright let's see here, what size is your tank, how long has it been running, what kind of lighting do you have and finaly what all do you have in it? Sorry for the barrage of questions haha.

 

[justjes45]

I have a 30 gallon nano tank.
I started it in early February.
I started with live sand, black Hawaiian, and live rock- about 30 lbs each.unfortunately, I had quite a few disappearances early on in my tank. Fish that went missing, I don't amazed that went missing – none of which ever spiking any levels. Nobodies no success… Nothing. I have no idea what was happening. Now I have one little clown fish who seems to be hanging in there but I am worried about him being lonely-
My zoas are awesome, but I hear it is hard to kill those anyway – here's a picture of my tank

 

[justjes45]

Oh yeah – and the lighting is by "current". It is a "full spectrum orbit marine pro". I'm not sure I am super happy with this – it does not seem to distribute the light evenly throughout the tank, I might hang it instead of setting on the tank.

 

[crbise65]

That's a great looking tank! Sorry to hear about the fish going missing but it's happened to me too. As for the zoas they are very hardy but I've killed them too haha. Glad you did your research and are seeking advice it will help you have much more success in the future!

 

[justjes45]

Thanks!! I think I watch it a bit too much... Lol

 

[crbise65]

For the lights I actually almost bought one of those for my 265 but actually went with a cheaper Chinese led and actually have had better growth than my expensive reef radiance lights lol.

 

[justjes45]

I have heard that also- might sell this one and start over...

 

[crbise65]

Haha I've always watched mine way too much. When I was deployed I would call my girlfriend ( now fiance) and the first thing I asked was about the tank haha

 

[crbise65]

I love my eBay leds and only cost me 150 bucks which is a super plus haha