My Chicago Sunburst BTA decided to flip itself to the underside of a rock where it is completely shaded.
Anemone has been in the tank for 4 months. Has done great until now. Stayed right where I put him until now.
He was about 6-7 inches deep in the tank a little off center from my G5 XR 15 blue lights. Lights run at 60% on Corallab AB+ setting.
Tank is almost year up and running. Waterbox Frag tank 4 ft long 72 gallons.
Fish:
2 ocellaris clowns
1 yellow tang
1 pseudochromis
1 diamond gobi
1 Lawnmower blenny
2 cleaner shrimp
Various snails and hermit crabs
I don't think any of the fish or inverts bother the anemone. Clownfish ignore it which is annoying. I haven't added any fish or inverts for 2 months.
Corals:
Large Pulsing xenia colony (this is very near the anemone but usually not touching. This gets trimmed back semiweekly)
1 small sinularis soft coral
1 Frogspawn
a few florida ricordia
A bunch of Zoanthids
1 small Acan
GSP colony
1 encrusting montipora coral
I recently added one mushroom and a few zooanthid polyps but these are not near the anemone.
Recently got an ICP test which is all within parameters I am looking for except iodine which was 10.79 microgram/L (reference value on ATI is 64.7). I dose BFRS 2 part to keep Alk 8-9 and Calc 430-440. pH varies 8.12-8.2 on my Apex. Phosphate is 0.01 mg/L, Nitrate 2.95 mg/L. My silica remover cartridge is depleted which I learned from the ICP testing of the RO/DI water, so a little has gone in while I await arrival of the new cartridge from spectrapure.
Original location (although he is quite a bit bigger now)
Upside down
Any thoughts? Anemone gets no direct light where it is now. The only thing I can think of is I let the xenia get to big and it was bothering the anemone or the silica is a problem. Or the stupid thing just decided to wander.
Anemone has been in the tank for 4 months. Has done great until now. Stayed right where I put him until now.
He was about 6-7 inches deep in the tank a little off center from my G5 XR 15 blue lights. Lights run at 60% on Corallab AB+ setting.
Tank is almost year up and running. Waterbox Frag tank 4 ft long 72 gallons.
Fish:
2 ocellaris clowns
1 yellow tang
1 pseudochromis
1 diamond gobi
1 Lawnmower blenny
2 cleaner shrimp
Various snails and hermit crabs
I don't think any of the fish or inverts bother the anemone. Clownfish ignore it which is annoying. I haven't added any fish or inverts for 2 months.
Corals:
Large Pulsing xenia colony (this is very near the anemone but usually not touching. This gets trimmed back semiweekly)
1 small sinularis soft coral
1 Frogspawn
a few florida ricordia
A bunch of Zoanthids
1 small Acan
GSP colony
1 encrusting montipora coral
I recently added one mushroom and a few zooanthid polyps but these are not near the anemone.
Recently got an ICP test which is all within parameters I am looking for except iodine which was 10.79 microgram/L (reference value on ATI is 64.7). I dose BFRS 2 part to keep Alk 8-9 and Calc 430-440. pH varies 8.12-8.2 on my Apex. Phosphate is 0.01 mg/L, Nitrate 2.95 mg/L. My silica remover cartridge is depleted which I learned from the ICP testing of the RO/DI water, so a little has gone in while I await arrival of the new cartridge from spectrapure.
Original location (although he is quite a bit bigger now)
Upside down
Any thoughts? Anemone gets no direct light where it is now. The only thing I can think of is I let the xenia get to big and it was bothering the anemone or the silica is a problem. Or the stupid thing just decided to wander.
