Anemone ID & question
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Joeb1983
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It is a BTA.
Judging off the color of your rock your tank is fairly new/young?..
IMPE nems have a much better survival rate the larger they are (4"+) along with being introduced to a more mature and stabile tank with sufficient lighting & flow.
I've always heard and stuck with a minimum of 6 months to a year of tank maturity before adding a nem...
Is that written law, can you be successful earlier?.. I'm sure it can and has been done, but waiting that time frame has never let me down.
Obviously nems will move to where they want to be, but they do not handle quick parameter changes well, especially seen in newer tanks with newer reefers.
It isn't uncommon for nems to hide a week or so after being introduced. Keep an eye out for excessive mouth gaping, color loss, shriveling and "throwing up". Those are usually an indication it is on the way out.
My buddy has a BTA that he battled with for months. Parameters where bang on, but it never looked "healthy". He simply made the switch from Chinese LED's to quality T5 's and it is now out and better than ever today.
I successfully keep different types of nems under AI LED lighting. They all gape from time to time and expel waste from feeding. They will shrink and expand throughout the day as well.
Clowns host most of them and every BTA I keep has lost its "bubbles" for some reason and from what I understand it is unknown as to why, but they are all healthy so it doesn't bother me.
Just to give us some info; how long has the tank been up and running and what are the parameters?
Judging off the color of your rock your tank is fairly new/young?..
IMPE nems have a much better survival rate the larger they are (4"+) along with being introduced to a more mature and stabile tank with sufficient lighting & flow.
I've always heard and stuck with a minimum of 6 months to a year of tank maturity before adding a nem...
Is that written law, can you be successful earlier?.. I'm sure it can and has been done, but waiting that time frame has never let me down.
Obviously nems will move to where they want to be, but they do not handle quick parameter changes well, especially seen in newer tanks with newer reefers.
It isn't uncommon for nems to hide a week or so after being introduced. Keep an eye out for excessive mouth gaping, color loss, shriveling and "throwing up". Those are usually an indication it is on the way out.
My buddy has a BTA that he battled with for months. Parameters where bang on, but it never looked "healthy". He simply made the switch from Chinese LED's to quality T5 's and it is now out and better than ever today.
I successfully keep different types of nems under AI LED lighting. They all gape from time to time and expel waste from feeding. They will shrink and expand throughout the day as well.
Clowns host most of them and every BTA I keep has lost its "bubbles" for some reason and from what I understand it is unknown as to why, but they are all healthy so it doesn't bother me.
Just to give us some info; how long has the tank been up and running and what are the parameters?
3 months old, test as today, rite is up and after a week can't come up with an answer, no fish, feed 2 times a week my shrimp 2 pellets and not much feeding the corals. My rate has always been low even from cycling. I have good corallin growth and its spreading quickly. Also have a good deal of little feather dusters and little white filter feeders and a good amount of Copepods.
1 turbo
2 trochus
2 cerith
4 Nassarius
5 hermits
1 cleaner shrimp
Corals are doing good and growing
Chili coral
3 types of zoa's
GSP
Torch
2 mushrooms
Flower Pot
BTA
Baby flower anemone, looking great so far.
Ammonia 0
Rite .5
Rate 5
Salt 1.025
PH 7.8
Calc 480
DKH 9
Temp 77~78
Skimmer is aquatic life 115
Intank basket, floss, purigen, chemi-pure elite
RW-4 Powerhead
RapidLed upgrade running around 45%
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1 turbo
2 trochus
2 cerith
4 Nassarius
5 hermits
1 cleaner shrimp
Corals are doing good and growing
Chili coral
3 types of zoa's
GSP
Torch
2 mushrooms
Flower Pot
BTA
Baby flower anemone, looking great so far.
Ammonia 0
Rite .5
Rate 5
Salt 1.025
PH 7.8
Calc 480
DKH 9
Temp 77~78
Skimmer is aquatic life 115
Intank basket, floss, purigen, chemi-pure elite
RW-4 Powerhead
RapidLed upgrade running around 45%
Joeb1983
Member
It definitely doesn't look to good... Keep an eye on it.
Maybe someone with more expertise can chime in.
Ive read post where people say theirs looked like that and they dimmed the lights or placed it and shade and it came back... IDK. :rolleye1:
Usually from my experience this isn't good.
Be careful because if it dies, it can reek havoc on your system.
Is it like this 24/7 or does the mouth close?
Maybe someone with more expertise can chime in.
Ive read post where people say theirs looked like that and they dimmed the lights or placed it and shade and it came back... IDK. :rolleye1:
Usually from my experience this isn't good.
Be careful because if it dies, it can reek havoc on your system.
Is it like this 24/7 or does the mouth close?
No it will change often in shape, close and open randomly. I got up today and checked on it and it was expelling brown from the mouth, Pooping? anyway 2 turds. I figured maybe he was constipated heh. Anyway I moved the rock he likes down closer to the sand and added some flow and he opened up. Hasn't completely puffed back up but is responsive and I fed him tonight and it closed around the food for a few minutes and opened back up with a closed mouth. Bad picture but here it is.
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My original cycle took 30 days, after my cycle I added some crabs and snails. A month latter 2 small clown pairs. No issues with levels at that point, then one day I had a bad spike from what I'm not sure, it took a week to normalize, after that levels looked good. 2 weeks ago about the same time I added the BTA I had a huge spike, now during this spike I had 0 ammonia that I could detect. Now here is the kicker, I "CAN'T" get nitrates up over 5, I think this is delaying the processes of the nitrogen cycle. My LFS was just as confused with my issue. I've tried Bactria in a bottle and a sponge temporarily to boost nitrates. So the only thing I haven't done is take out the purigen.
Joeb1983
Member
Yeah, mine poo after feeding krill or silversides a few days later.
I personally think your tank is too young and the nem is pretty small at 2"...
Good reads I used:
http://www.reeftime.com/reef-articles/anemone-articles/begginers-guide-keeping-anemones/11.htm
http://www.corallore.com/rose-bubble-tip-anemone/
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2010/6/inverts
Attached is a pic of my newest nem of about a month now with my large female maroon in a 18" cube of 9 months of maturity, lit by a single AI prime.
As you can see it lost its bubbles... :rolleye1:
I personally think your tank is too young and the nem is pretty small at 2"...
Good reads I used:
http://www.reeftime.com/reef-articles/anemone-articles/begginers-guide-keeping-anemones/11.htm
http://www.corallore.com/rose-bubble-tip-anemone/
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2010/6/inverts
Attached is a pic of my newest nem of about a month now with my large female maroon in a 18" cube of 9 months of maturity, lit by a single AI prime.
As you can see it lost its bubbles... :rolleye1:
