Hello everyone. I just purchased my first anenome 3 days ago. It’s a black widow. I placed it on the rock work 3 days ago and it never moved. Last night however I figured it was safe to turn the flow back on. This morning I can’t see him anywhere. I’ve turned the flow down to the lowest setting. Should I go digging through the rock work for him? I don’t think he got shredded as I haven’t seen any sighns of that. Thank you John
When to hunt for a missing anenome.
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I wouldn’t search you could crush it with the rock. It’s perfectly normal for them to hide for a couple days.
I do apologize for not updating when he came out. He came out the next day. My lighting is on for 9 hours black box around that time my nitrate was around 6-7 alk 8.7 didn’t test cal never tested magnesium before Andy phosphates uh brace yourself were .64 ppm. I have been working on my phosphate issue and as of yesterday it was .34 by no means problem solved but a huge improvment. The tank isonly a few weeks old. The rock I have started as dry rock 2-3 years ago. I moved the contents into this tank from my 75 that was up for a year. So idk what you would classify as the tank age.
ReeferWarrant
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Not sure if this factors with anemone's but be careful with large changes in phosphates as well. I was at .50 and zeroed out the tank and ended up with some SPS's not happy.
Yeah I’m working on it slowly I dialed my skimmer in correctly and worked on my feeding habits. I know slowly feed my fish instead of dumping it all in at once. On the list my refigum is covered in cyano out competing the chatoe I’m hoping if I can get the chato to grow better I can fix everything. I’m also in desperate need of new cleanup crew.
