daplatapus
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I got this guy in early Nov and when I got him he looked fairly healthy at the LFS but when I put him into my tank he really filled out and looked awesome. Here's a pic Nov 8th:
As time progressed it didn't inflate quite as much so after doing some reading, I thought it might be in a bit of too much flow and maybe a bit too close to my MH lighting so I moved him further down in the tank and off to one side so it would be in a bit lower flow area. But it has steadily gotten worse. This is a pic taken tonight:
and a full tank shot where you can just see it on the lower left corner:
Tank is almost 3 months old. I've had as good of water quality you could ask for the entire time. I started the tank with 130 lbs of fully cured LR that had tons of life on it and never did see a cycle. For livestock I have:
1 YWG
2 Occelaris clowns
1 Starry Blenny
1 Skunk cleaner shrimp
2 Peppermint shrimp
CUC - blue legged hermits, scarlet leged hermits, astrea snails, nerite snails, turbo snails,
1 sand sifting starfish
1 torch coral
1 GSP
1 green button polyp
1 orange button polyp
1 Monitpora digitalis
1 acropora
I think that's it. Tank and system is in my sig.
Here's my water parameters taken today:
Temp: 80.1
S.G.: 1.024 (usually 1.025 but I had my fireplace on today so ATO was probably working overtime)
NH4: 0
NO3: 0
NO2: 0
Mg: 1340
Ca: 390 (I know a bit low, working on it)
KH: 8.0
PH: 8.3
PO4: 0.01
Any thought as to what could be cause my blasto's discomfort? If you need any more info I'll get it.

As time progressed it didn't inflate quite as much so after doing some reading, I thought it might be in a bit of too much flow and maybe a bit too close to my MH lighting so I moved him further down in the tank and off to one side so it would be in a bit lower flow area. But it has steadily gotten worse. This is a pic taken tonight:

and a full tank shot where you can just see it on the lower left corner:

Tank is almost 3 months old. I've had as good of water quality you could ask for the entire time. I started the tank with 130 lbs of fully cured LR that had tons of life on it and never did see a cycle. For livestock I have:
1 YWG
2 Occelaris clowns
1 Starry Blenny
1 Skunk cleaner shrimp
2 Peppermint shrimp
CUC - blue legged hermits, scarlet leged hermits, astrea snails, nerite snails, turbo snails,
1 sand sifting starfish
1 torch coral
1 GSP
1 green button polyp
1 orange button polyp
1 Monitpora digitalis
1 acropora
I think that's it. Tank and system is in my sig.
Here's my water parameters taken today:
Temp: 80.1
S.G.: 1.024 (usually 1.025 but I had my fireplace on today so ATO was probably working overtime)
NH4: 0
NO3: 0
NO2: 0
Mg: 1340
Ca: 390 (I know a bit low, working on it)
KH: 8.0
PH: 8.3
PO4: 0.01
Any thought as to what could be cause my blasto's discomfort? If you need any more info I'll get it.