What's he doing?

[Pennywise the Clown]

For the last 2 days my BTA has been in this position and not come out at all. I have noticed that my pair of clowns have been giving it a nudge but that is all.
Parameters are good and stable. Everything else is doing very well.

 

[cracker]

Is the nem a new addition?

 

[Pennywise the Clown]

Is the nem a new addition?

Been in just over 4 weeks. It does like to hide inside its crack in the rocks and often comes out later in the day but it has moved to the position you can see now, rather than the foot being hidden.

 

[Pennywise the Clown]

My nitrate and phosphate readings are very low, almost undetectable using Salifert test kits. I've removed my GFO to see if this helps and also dropped the intensity of my Hydra 26's. My clowns, who have pretty much ignored the anemone for 4 weeks, have only just started to show an interest.

 

[Pennywise the Clown]

I've just checked my salanity, which is usually 1.025, and it is 1.020!!!. This may have been caused by me having some balancing issues with the Red Sea diaphragm valve and too much R.O getting dumped into the tank. I'm mixing up some fresh salt water to bring it (slowly) back up.

 

[cracker]

here Ya Go that could be an issue for sure ! Need to get that up "slowly" .
lets give the reef squad a call. Darn don't think that worked. Anyway I think Amoo is the nem expert .
@reefsquad

 

[mta_morrow]

here Ya Go that could be an issue for sure ! Need to get that up "slowly" .
lets give the reef squad a call. Darn don't think that worked. Anyway I think Amoo is the nem expert .
@reefsquad

Cracker......use the #, not the @

as @cracker recommended, bring salinity up over a few days.

Bubble tips are tougher that most and this fella should be fine as long as you bring it up slowly.

 

[cracker]

Thanks mta I made a note of that .

 

[Pennywise the Clown]

Thanks guys, appreciate the help. I'm definitely going to be bringing my salinity up nice and slow.
The BTA has actually emerged in the last couple of hours and my clowns appear to be plucking up some courage to enter it. They both go up to it, almost poke their head in and then swim off and repeat. Hopefully things turn out okay.

 

[mta_morrow]

Thanks guys, appreciate the help. I'm definitely going to be bringing my salinity up nice and slow.
The BTA has actually emerged in the last couple of hours and my clowns appear to be plucking up some courage to enter it. They both go up to it, almost poke their head in and then swim off and repeat. Hopefully things turn out okay.

That’s good news!