Help! Anemones balled up

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exnisstech said:
I run a 50/50 mix of IO and RC. My alk runs mid 8s but I manually dose 5ml of bionic alk daily to a 40g system and 30ml to a 220g system which also drips kalk so the IO should bring it down but you may want to keep an eye on it.
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I think I'll mix my water similarly from now on. I don't have very high demands right now, and it feels like ca and mg at just piling up!
 
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PhishFriends said:
I think I'll mix my water similarly from now on. I don't have very high demands right now, and it feels like ca and mg at just piling up!
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Thats interesting about ca and mg. My mg is around 1400 but ca is pegging my test kit at 500 on 2 seperate tanks. I was dosing both parts of bionic and really didn't test ca because it had been rock steady so I'm not really sure when it got that high or for how long. It's been several weeks since I stopped dosing ca and only dose the alk but ca is still 500+. Everything is looking good so I'm just taking the wait and see approach for now.
 
Something isn't quite adding up to me with that light schedule on xr15's, being blamed for the balled up nems. They will normally move prior to going ostrich on you.

Are you running carbon in the system?
 
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Lost in the Sauce said:
Something isn't quite adding up to me with that light schedule on xr15's, being blamed for the balled up nems. They will normally move prior to going ostrich on you.

Are you running carbon in the system?
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No not running carbon.
The string of events were:
I did a water change (while scrubbing rocks of algae), from water I mixed a while back.
I dosed nitrates to 14ppm, from 8ppm. I was trying keep cyano at bay by keeping nitrates a little higher, which has been helping.
And I messed with my lights..
Then they balled up in a day or two. About 4 days later I added 'vite essentials' (I think that's what it's called) which is just trace minerals and elements, for the first time. I've really wanted to see Coraline grow. A year in and many attempts at seeding the tank it just won't spread. I thought maybe the obscure elements may be behind this?? It's a stretch I know..
 
PhishFriends said:
No not running carbon.
The string of events were:
I did a water change (while scrubbing rocks of algae), from water I mixed a while back.
I dosed nitrates to 14ppm, from 8ppm. I was trying keep cyano at bay by keeping nitrates a little higher, which has been helping.
And I messed with my lights..
Then they balled up in a day or two. About 4 days later I added 'vite essentials' (I think that's what it's called) which is just trace minerals and elements, for the first time. I've really wanted to see Coraline grow. A year in and many attempts at seeding the tank it just won't spread. I thought maybe the obscure elements may be behind this?? It's a stretch I know..
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Even in that sequence, I'm not seeing anything that should be producing this result.

I would add a healthy bit of carbon in case there is something in the water you aren't seeing. Keep up with your normal maintenance including water changes. Cyano can irritate them but I don't see a bunch of cyano around them.
 
Lost in the Sauce said:
Even in that sequence, I'm not seeing anything that should be producing this result.

I would add a healthy bit of carbon in case there is something in the water you aren't seeing. Keep up with your normal maintenance including water changes. Cyano can irritate them but I don't see a bunch of cyano around them.
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Added Carbon.
Could it be my peppermint shrimp attacked them?
 
Are you sure it's cyano?
Your phosphates are very low, could be dinos what you have. Did you check under microscope? My bta's balled up and shrunk a lot when I had dinos.
 
Kmst80 said:
Are you sure it's cyano?
Your phosphates are very low, could be dinos what you have. Did you check under microscope? My bta's balled up and shrunk a lot when I had dinos.
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Well no I didn't, but I had a small amount of red slime like matting on my sand. I used an Oxydator and phyto and kept my nitrates up at around 10 for a bit and it disappeared. Then I started to get some algae growths on rocks, standard stuff (but new for this tank since my nitrate phosphate has stayed so low).
So I brushed it off, and that's around the time this whole thing started...
Now my nitrate phosphate has decreased in the past two weeks, and the algae growth has nearly vanished. Everything looks good and happy but my rBTA's are buttoned up tight.
 
Lost in the Sauce said:
You can't rule it out. Shrimp can do damage to nems after feeding by digging the food out of the nems mouth.
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I've seen them picking on my Micromussa Lords, but never the nems. I'd hope the clowns would beat a dumb shrimp back..
It did just molt, and it gets mean before it molts.
 
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For peeps in the future who find this thread. My anemones came back out. I've been running lights on acclimation, haven't messed with my water or scrubbed any algae. I ran carbon and waited.
I still don't know what exactly caused them to ball up. My nitrates did bump from 5ppm to 15ppm in a to quick of a dose.. I did adjust my lights.. and I scrubbed rock potentially having dinos or other irritants.
I'm now slowly using my ATO to dose as I don't have any other way to do it gradually, and I'm much happier with this method.
Good luck! And may your anemone live long and prosper!
 
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