Anemone Help
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I think small, frequent water changes are ideal. Your nitrate is 20, which is too high, but it's not astronomical. Eventually your nitrate will drop as the nitrobacillus (bacteria that convert nitrate to gaseous nitrogen) colonize the anaerobic layers of your sand bed. FYI, deep sand beds can be problematic down the road. I personally used to keep dsbs, but have since gone to shallow sand beds and rely on waste export rather than denitrification. That's a whole other topic, more appropriate for the General Reef Discussion Forum and not a concern for the time being. Anyway, for now, if you want to increase to daily 1 gallon water changes that would be fine. Or, as Minh said, larger wcs will bring nitrate down faster, but perhaps be more disruptive, and unnecessarily so, in my opinion.
OrionN
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Dry food are a lot more concentrate. 1 cc of food for the anemone was mean to be frozen food which is mostly water, not dry pellet. I never use pellet so I am not 100% sure how to advice you here. Anemone like to eat fresh seafood anyway so I would use shrimp, squid, fish or what ever you have. I would avoid frozen food for aquarium. Too often I find these food smelly and spoiled or near spoiled. I would be sick if I eat them. I am sure there are more than a few anemone keeper here who can told personal loss of anemone with aquarium frozen food.
I use both deep sand bed and bare bottom tank/shallow coarse sand tank. I can tell you that in all of my tank, nitrate was never measurable with our hobby test kits.
I use both deep sand bed and bare bottom tank/shallow coarse sand tank. I can tell you that in all of my tank, nitrate was never measurable with our hobby test kits.
Johnathanb
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Long story short, there was a power outage, weather here is 20 degrees. Thanks again for everyones help, I much apreciated it. I probally wont buy anything else untill I get me battery powered box. Was a very sad morning, I would like to say again Thanks for everyone that helped me, I now have a better understanding of the BTA, and will atempt getting another in a few months.
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Johnathanb
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I didnt give up, I have actually decided to go bigger now, but I did not take any pictures. I have bought me 55 gallon long tank instead of the BioCube. Going to start off way slower this time around. And on top of things, I work 24 hour shifts, 1 day on 1 day off, and I can't just leave work for a fish tank. I have ordered myself a 4x54 High output light just this morning. I will not start the process untill I find me a decent rechargable power source, or end up making my own.
