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[shupiejr93]

When did you add livestock?

Just started adding in January

 

[VintageReefer]

Do you know what light you ordered?

 

[shupiejr93]

Id have to call him and ask what the name of it is I just told him I want the exact lights he uses to grow his corals and nems it prestige world coral in OKC he has helped me a lot with my tank

 

[RSNJReef]

Like others said, check your parameters like calcium, alk, and magnesium.

What you may be dealing with is chemical warfare between the nems. Most people aren’t able to keep different anemone species in the same tank because when they sense another anemone species they begin throwing out toxins to kill the another anemones. Condylactus anemones are notorious for this, and years ago I had one condylactus kill two red bubble tips I had purely through chemical warfare.

Bubble tips are the more sensitive of the different coral species and are usually the first to go when introducing outlooks anemone types. For reference, some bubble tips shouldn’t even be kept together, like you shouldn’t keep Colorado sunbursts with any other type of anemone,, even red pre rainbow bubble tips. The guys that keep the different species together either run heavy carbon or run an ozone reactor to remove the toxins from the water.

If you want to try and test this, get two cups of carbon and put it in the bag in a media bag and put it into a high flow section of your sump or tank, then see if the bubble tips start to recover.

Also, did you get all of the bubble tips from the same source? Did they ever look healthy in the tank? It’s also possible that you the bubble tips have a bacterial infection, in which case the recommended course is to put the bubble tips into a QT tank and treat them with cipro for 5-6 days in a row with a 50% water change daily.

 

[shupiejr93]

 

[shupiejr93]

Like others said, check your parameters like calcium, alk, and magnesium.

What you may be dealing with is chemical warfare between the nems. Most people aren’t able to keep different anemone species in the same tank because when they sense another anemone species they begin throwing out toxins to kill the another anemones. Condylactus anemones are notorious for this, and years ago I had one condylactus kill two red bubble tips I had purely through chemical warfare.

Bubble tips are the more sensitive of the different coral species and are usually the first to go when introducing outlooks anemone types. For reference, some bubble tips shouldn’t even be kept together, like you shouldn’t keep Colorado sunbursts with any other type of anemone,, even red pre rainbow bubble tips. The guys that keep the different species together either run heavy carbon or run an ozone reactor to remove the toxins from the water.

If you want to try and test this, get two cups of carbon and put it in the bag in a media bag and put it into a high flow section of your sump or tank, then see if the bubble tips start to recover.

Also, did you get all of the bubble tips from the same source? Did they ever look healthy in the tank? It’s also possible that you the bubble tips have a bacterial infection, in which case the recommended course is to put the bubble tips into a QT tank and treat them with cipro for 5-6 days in a row with a 50% water change daily.

Yes both came from the same source and yes all of them looked heathy and my bubble tips say in one side of my tank while my cony's and long tips stay in the other side I might have go give them a new home if it's cem warfare bc I just got 2 more large conys

 

[shupiejr93]

Yes both came from the same source and yes all of them looked heathy and my bubble tips say in one side of my tank while my cony's and long tips stay in the other side I might have go give them a new home if it's cem warfare bc I just got 2 more large conys

 

[shupiejr93]

Like others said, check your parameters like calcium, alk, and magnesium.

What you may be dealing with is chemical warfare between the nems. Most people aren’t able to keep different anemone species in the same tank because when they sense another anemone species they begin throwing out toxins to kill the another anemones. Condylactus anemones are notorious for this, and years ago I had one condylactus kill two red bubble tips I had purely through chemical warfare.

Bubble tips are the more sensitive of the different coral species and are usually the first to go when introducing outlooks anemone types. For reference, some bubble tips shouldn’t even be kept together, like you shouldn’t keep Colorado sunbursts with any other type of anemone,, even red pre rainbow bubble tips. The guys that keep the different species together either run heavy carbon or run an ozone reactor to remove the toxins from the water.

If you want to try and test this, get two cups of carbon and put it in the bag in a media bag and put it into a high flow section of your sump or tank, then see if the bubble tips start to recover.

Also, did you get all of the bubble tips from the same source? Did they ever look healthy in the tank? It’s also possible that you the bubble tips have a bacterial infection, in which case the recommended course is to put the bubble tips into a QT tank and treat them with cipro for 5-6 days in a row with a 50% water change daily.

I run carbon in my filters

 

[shupiejr93]

This is the carbon I use

 

[Spare time]

If nitrate is 0 then I would dose amino acids or feed more.

 

[Spare time]

I use bottled water to calibrate and I only don't so much to be double sure

Distilled?

 

[Cichlid Dad]

It evaporates about 2 gallons a week so I'll pull 3 more out and and a hole box of water

 

[shupiejr93]

Distilled?

This water

 

[Cichlid Dad]

 

[eliaslikesfish]

This water

If you must purchase bottled water get distilled. Purified is usually just RO, not RO/DI and in most cases is remineralized or TDS is added back in for human taste.

RO/DI would be the most pure, distilled is a very close second if the still is serviced regularly and RO only is third since a membrane is only 90-98% effective without the added DI step. RO drinking water or "Purified" water again is usually remineralized so it tastes good and is refreshing so should be avoided, try to get some RO/DI from your LFS.

edit:maybe i’m confused, you’re using that water to top off your tank or to calibrate your refractometer? you can’t use that to calibrate your refractometer mate

 

[VintageReefer]

So you are zeroing a salinity meter with a product that contains sodium bicarbonate ?

INGREDIENTS​

purified water, calcium chloride, sodium bicarbonate.

 

[eliaslikesfish]

So you are zeroing a salinity meter with a product that contains sodium bicarbonate ?

INGREDIENTS​

purified water, calcium chloride, sodium bicarbonate.

yes it seems he is doing that. RIP

 

[eliaslikesfish]

i use this to calibrate my refractometer…

Amazon.com: AccuBrate Refractometer and Hydrometer Salinity Calibration Fluid – Solution to Accurately Calibrate Refractometer and Hydrometer for Testing Natural Saltwater or Synthetic Sea Water (60 ml) : Industrial & Scientific

Amazon.com: AccuBrate Refractometer and Hydrometer Salinity Calibration Fluid – Solution to Accurately Calibrate Refractometer and Hydrometer for Testing Natural Saltwater or Synthetic Sea Water (60 ml) : Industrial & Scientific

a.co

 

[Cichlid Dad]

This water

Just out of curiosity, where did you get the idea to use bottled water?

 

[shupiejr93]

i use this to calibrate my refractometer…

Amazon.com: AccuBrate Refractometer and Hydrometer Salinity Calibration Fluid – Solution to Accurately Calibrate Refractometer and Hydrometer for Testing Natural Saltwater or Synthetic Sea Water (60 ml) : Industrial & Scientific

Amazon.com: AccuBrate Refractometer and Hydrometer Salinity Calibration Fluid – Solution to Accurately Calibrate Refractometer and Hydrometer for Testing Natural Saltwater or Synthetic Sea Water (60 ml) : Industrial & Scientific

a.co

I'll look for some of this today while I'm getting my other tanks food