Bubble Tip In Overflow
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velvetelvis
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More information would be helpful. Can you post some pics of your tank, along with details (how long it's been set up, lighting, tankmates, water parameters, how long you've had it)?
It is a Nuvo 38 been set up for 3 weeks. I used sand water and rocks out of my 55 to set up, also used Dr Tims for reef all the other corals are doing great. Green Bubble tip split and the other two pieces are attaced and move very little the pink Bubble tip hasnt moved at all. Tank has a Diamond Goby, 2 Snowflake clowns, A Peppermint Shrimp, Fire Shrimp And a Poriclen Crab
velvetelvis
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Three weeks is much, much too soon to add an anemone of any kind to a new system, even with the use of cycling additives and "old" live rock (and if the information in your profile is current, the 55 is only two months old and thus has barely been set up long enough to have finished cycling). The tank isn't seasoned enough to be a stable environment. The GBTA may have split due to stress, both because of the environment and possibly due to chemical competition with your other BTA.
You've also added too many animals too fast. Three weeks in is too soon for the fish. Most recommendations are anywhere from a month to six weeks. Are you testing your water regularly for nitrite and ammonia? Do you know what your salinity, KH, and Ca are? These are all important for ionic balance and the stability of the system.
I would suggest starting a thread on this forum asking for help with your anemone. I'm not trying to make you feel bad, but the fact that your anemone is moving is a red flag. There are a lot of experienced people here who can help you out.
You've also added too many animals too fast. Three weeks in is too soon for the fish. Most recommendations are anywhere from a month to six weeks. Are you testing your water regularly for nitrite and ammonia? Do you know what your salinity, KH, and Ca are? These are all important for ionic balance and the stability of the system.
I would suggest starting a thread on this forum asking for help with your anemone. I'm not trying to make you feel bad, but the fact that your anemone is moving is a red flag. There are a lot of experienced people here who can help you out.
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velvetelvis
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I apologize if I came across like I was scolding you. I got the two months from your profile information, but obviously what applied when you first registered on the site isn't the case now.
What I was trying to say, apparently a bit tactlessly, is that the anemone is moving because something in the tank is making it unhappy, and there could be a number of reasons for that.
If the water parameters are not just good, but stable and consistent, it's possible that your anemones are chemically competing with each other. You mentioned a GBTA that has split and a RBTA that is staying put; do you have any other anemones? Sometimes people keep different anemones successfully in the same system, but other times there's allelopathy, even if they're the same species. I think this is probably more likely to be a problem in small to medium-sized systems.
I recently had this problem when I tried to keep two different BTA morphs together (I have a 50G). The anemones became severely stressed not long after the addition of the new anemone. I didn't suspect allelopathy at first, but after I did a large water change and added a lot of new carbon, within about 48 hours the "original" resident anemone was back to normal. On the other hand, the smallest and newest one grew weaker even as the "original" got bigger and healthier, and eventually died (it had retreated into a place in the rocks where I couldn't reach it). (This is also the reason why I suspect it might have been allelopathy rather than tank conditions.)
Again, some people never run into this issue, but it wouldn't hurt to at least consider that possibility. If you're not running carbon in your system, I would add some, and see if that helps.
Good luck, and I hope my responses earlier didn't discourage you from asking for more help.
What I was trying to say, apparently a bit tactlessly, is that the anemone is moving because something in the tank is making it unhappy, and there could be a number of reasons for that.
If the water parameters are not just good, but stable and consistent, it's possible that your anemones are chemically competing with each other. You mentioned a GBTA that has split and a RBTA that is staying put; do you have any other anemones? Sometimes people keep different anemones successfully in the same system, but other times there's allelopathy, even if they're the same species. I think this is probably more likely to be a problem in small to medium-sized systems.
I recently had this problem when I tried to keep two different BTA morphs together (I have a 50G). The anemones became severely stressed not long after the addition of the new anemone. I didn't suspect allelopathy at first, but after I did a large water change and added a lot of new carbon, within about 48 hours the "original" resident anemone was back to normal. On the other hand, the smallest and newest one grew weaker even as the "original" got bigger and healthier, and eventually died (it had retreated into a place in the rocks where I couldn't reach it). (This is also the reason why I suspect it might have been allelopathy rather than tank conditions.)
Again, some people never run into this issue, but it wouldn't hurt to at least consider that possibility. If you're not running carbon in your system, I would add some, and see if that helps.
Good luck, and I hope my responses earlier didn't discourage you from asking for more help.
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