Bubble Tip Anemone Problems

[jrp1588]

wrong. there are times you need to feed an anemone. for example when an anemone is severely bleached it cannot obtain food from photosynthesis because it expelled all of the zooxanthelle that breaks down light into energy.

however. a healthy anemone does not need to be fed.. as long as lighting is sufficient. if lighting sucks then feeding them makes things so much less stressful for the anemone.

And I don't need to ever take an antibiotic until I get sick. I figured it was implied I was talking about a healthy one. But hats off.

 

[hotelbravo]

And I don't need to ever take an antibiotic until I get sick. I figured it was implied I was talking about a healthy one. But hats off.

i realize that i came off a little dickish or snobbish. i apologize.

 

[jrp1588]

i realize that i came off a little dickish or snobbish. i apologize.

It's cool. Mostly I just wanted to post the meme. Leading with 'wrong' does tend to come off as somewhat confrontational though. haha

 

[Isaacs55]

wrong. there are times you need to feed an anemone. for example when an anemone is severely bleached it cannot obtain food from photosynthesis because it expelled all of the zooxanthelle that breaks down light into energy.

however. a healthy anemone does not need to be fed.. as long as lighting is sufficient. if lighting sucks then feeding them makes things so much less stressful for the anemone.

On a serious note...a good trick is to feed the anemone a tenticle from another healthy anemone that has zooxanthelle to help reintroduce it to itself.

 

[hunmnu]

What are you you using for lighting? That's also a key component to keeping anemones

 

[Dkuhlmann]

What are you you using for lighting? That's also a key component to keeping anemones

Lighting is THE KEY component in successfully keeping a healthy anemone.

 

[jstephens24]

Would this set up have enough light? AquaSun dual T5 HO lights with Ocean Sun 10,000K and a Coral Sun Actinic 420 bulbs.

 

[douglaslps]

I don't think the prime will really do anything good.
you should research to lighting requirements for anemones. a lot of people recommend 3 watts per 1 gallon so in a 75 gallon you should be looking at 225 watts of light.
though the watts per gallon rule are not always accurate they are a great general guideline. the halides would help but the size of your would make things difficult.

I might have arrived a little bit late for this discussion but I have a similar problem.
Two months ago I've changed my reef layout to add a new BBT (the second one).
With this change, I had to move the rock where my first BBT was. After that this 'nem was never the same. It lost its color, format and size. I was feeding the 'nems once a week. I have stopped feeding them for two week but nothing changed.

See a video before the layout change (if the video don't show, here is the link https://youtu.be/tCaISH4WafQ):


And another after it (if the video don't show, here is the link https://youtu.be/qbLTES4QDyc):


This is a 70 liters (19 gallon) tank and 1,5 years old:
Salinity: 1023
PH: 8.3
Nitrate: 10
Alk: 9.9
Ca: 430
Mg: 1335 (aiming 1400 using Balling)

I have a AI Prime LED with this setup:
From 16:30 to 19:00 (21 Watts)
Uv: 20%
Violet: 20%
Deep blue: 85%
Blue: 85%
Green: 20%
Red: 16%
White: 45%

From 15:00 to 22:00 except the time period above I leave only blue channels on in 85% (13 Watts).

I have recently (one week) reduced blue channels to 85%. I was using 100% but it was burning my Psammocora (which is getting better now!!).

Any suggestion???

 

[tattoosandfrags]

Not sure if you actually ment .4 and .5 for your phosphate readings but you want them aroumd .03.

Also dont feed anemones silversides, there have been recorded setups where anemones have died from them.

Ive always fed my anemones btas and carpets silversides for years and never had a problem with them getting sick or dying.

 

[douglaslps]

anyone? ^^^^

 

[deceptionONE]

I might have arrived a little bit late for this discussion but I have a similar problem.
Two months ago I've changed my reef layout to add a new BBT (the second one).
With this change, I had to move the rock where my first BBT was. After that this 'nem was never the same. It lost its color, format and size. I was feeding the 'nems once a week. I have stopped feeding them for two week but nothing changed.

See a video before the layout change (if the video don't show, here is the link https://youtu.be/tCaISH4WafQ):


And another after it (if the video don't show, here is the link https://youtu.be/qbLTES4QDyc):


This is a 70 liters (19 gallon) tank and 1,5 years old:
Salinity: 1023
PH: 8.3
Nitrate: 10
Alk: 9.9
Ca: 430
Mg: 1335 (aiming 1400 using Balling)

I have a AI Prime LED with this setup:
From 16:30 to 19:00 (21 Watts)
Uv: 20%
Violet: 20%
Deep blue: 85%
Blue: 85%
Green: 20%
Red: 16%
White: 45%

From 15:00 to 22:00 except the time period above I leave only blue channels on in 85% (13 Watts).

I have recently (one week) reduced blue channels to 85%. I was using 100% but it was burning my Psammocora (which is getting better now!!).

Any suggestion???

ok this is how i solved my problem.

i will start with my tank and parameters

4ft AquaOne

Tank= 274lt (72gal)
Sump= 98lt (26gal)
Live rock= 82kg (180lbs)

Total volume (considering live rock)= 292lt (77gal)

Light= AquaOne Reefglow 120 (180w{LED})

Ph= 8.3
Salinity= 1.023
Temp= 24°c (75°F)
Ammonia= 0
Nitrite= 0
Nitrate= 5
Alkalinity= 12dKH
Calcium= 450
Magnesium= 1330
Phosphate= 0.08



so i spent a lot of time working on my water parameters with no success,
and i finally had enough spare money to afford a good light, after experimenting with a few different lights i got for cheap off of the internet with no success.
i bought the AquaOne Reefglow 120, and i was so excited to finally have my problem solved... but it was not over.... my anemones were still acting strange they would go under the rocks and i would lave them expecting them to reappear, after a month of not seeing them i went searching stipped all my live rock from my tank, no anemones...

i was so ****ed doing all this research and spending money to get it right with zero success.

so i went and bought another anemone i decided i would see what happened if i did not turn all of my lights on (being that my light has 3 switches one for the 10 blue LED {3w each} and 2 switches each controlling 10 white LED {3 w each}) by turning only the blue and one set of the white on it reduced my light from 180w to 120w, low and behold my anemone is doing absolutely great.

so it appears to me from my experience is that you can have too much light

i did read a recommendation for a 1w per gal (i am running 1.5 per gal including sump)

i turn my blue and white on at 8:30 am and run them until 5m then they go completely off



also i tried my luck with a light that i could adjust all of the colours like what you have but at the end of the day it was too complicated for me to get the right output and could not find any information from everywhere and light spectrum research does my head in lol

also i feed my anemone squid about once a month, but i do not find this necessary at all, but i figure it may grow faster and i just enjoy watching it eat

finally in the end it was all my light, first it was not bright enough, then it was too bright, a lot of hassle but ended up being a simple fix

 

[deceptionONE]

FYI your links did not work for me

 

[douglaslps]

ok this is how i solved my problem.

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so it appears to me from my experience is that you can have too much light

i did read a recommendation for a 1w per gal (i am running 1.5 per gal including sump)

i turn my blue and white on at 8:30 am and run them until 5m then they go completely off

also i tried my luck with a light that i could adjust all of the colours like what you have but at the end of the day it was too complicated for me to get the right output and could not find any information from everywhere and light spectrum research does my head in lol

also i feed my anemone squid about once a month, but i do not find this necessary at all, but i figure it may grow faster and i just enjoy watching it eat

finally in the end it was all my light, first it was not bright enough, then it was too bright, a lot of hassle but ended up being a simple fix

Hi deceptionONE,

thanks for you reply! Here are the correct links for the videos. It got messed because of the parentheses...

https://youtu.be/tCaISH4WafQ
https://youtu.be/qbLTES4QDyc

I changed my lightning and during the peak hours I have around 19Watts of light (around 1 Watt per gallon). Let's see if that helps.

Meanwhile does anyone using Aquaillumination Prime on a 20 gallons tank could share a configuration that could make anemones happy?

Regards,
Douglas