It is soooooo frustrating! I just got through it with my other 120g and now this one is having issues. I love this hobby but it’s no joke that you can never just relax for too long & not have something happening.
I have spent sooooo much money on automation just so I could have little more of that relax time so I understand. With that being said your anatomy is not looking too good I fear for you that the anatomy is going to contaminate the rest of the tank and possibly cause a crash depending on the size of the tank and how far gone it gets before you decide to remove it.
Yeah, I am thinking of just removing it today. It’s not looking good at all. It’s sad because it looked great just a few days ago, but I’d rather lose an anemone than my whole tank.
Yes a four month old tank is not ready for anemone but people do it all the time with success minus all of the uglies that she is experiencing
I do have one and I just switched to a more efficient unit about 3 months ago, so the filters are fairly new still. It also has a TDS meter reading 0ppm. I bought this unit after scratching my head wondering if my other RODI unit was having issues (I got it used) and then figured out it was my salt.
I agree though, I did jump the gun on moving my nem over. I moved it from my other 120g because that tank was the one having issues from TM & I didn’t have another safe place for it since it was so big. I’ve had the nem for over a year and it’s been in this tank for 2 months now with no issues. I will chalk that up to being my mistake though.
I promise that I do have a pretty good understanding at this point. I’m by no means a veteran reef keeper but I’m not super new either. It’s a long story about why I have my anemone in this tank but it’s mostly because I needed a safe place for it while my other 120g tank was going through the major stress of the Tropic Marin debacle. I hadn’t planned for it to stay in the new tank long term but here we are now.
Oh wow!! I’m going to head over there too… I haven’t used that forum as much. I’m in Morton Grove & we have Lake Michigan water, which I’m guessing you do as well. That’s really good to know!
How much stuff is in the original 120 I wonder if a switch back to that tank could save the anemone. Only issue is if you switch then you possibly can cause issues with that tank. If it was me I would possibly consider removing it and put into some kind of container for easier removal when time to toss and possible float in the original tank. When I was going thru the tmp issue none of my anemones was suffering only my corals and black slim in 250 gallon mixing station and all the auto water changes lines black
This fourm is way way better but I jumped on there because I felt it be better to ask these questions to the people in my area who use the same water instead of people all over the world.
Yeah, it was my anxiety getting the best of me when I moved it. My clowns didn’t care about it and I thought moving it might save it from enduring all the swings from changing salts and everything. In hindsight, it would have been better to leave it there. I have some of those little black baskets that LFSs use to hold anemones. So I think I will grab it since it’s walking right now anyways and float it in the sump of the original tank for now, with lights on and see if it perks up. It’s clearly very angry.
Yes due to the condition that it’s in in my opinion won’t last very much longer if nothing done at all odds are you will lose it anyways there may be a possible chance of saving it in the original tank but like I said that comes with a chance of contaminating the original tank so you must weigh your options and obviously keep a close look on it. Yes at least if in a basket might be easier to remove when needed. Yes sump will work assuming Adequate light and flow should be fine. But I think this is more of a water quality issue between the two tanks
