Bubble tip troubles.

[broke1]

I purchased a bubble tip several months ago. Unfortunately this guy suffered my ignorance to a bad refractometer. The Salinity in the tank was hovering at around 1.031 for close to month until I realized the refractometer was bad. I brought it back down to 1.026 over the course of a week.

How damaging is this to an BT?

My second question actually refers to bulb spectrum. Ever since I purchased a new 250w AB 20K he moved to the top of the tank and has been attached to the back wall. Lately he has lost all of his color and for the most part looks terrible. I removed the 20k and put a 10k in and it actually seemed to improve overnight, the mouth has since closed and he looks to be inflating slightly.

Do these guys have a preference for spectrums?

I even went as far as to scrape the paint off the glass behind him as the tank is in front of the window, but where he hangs out get's no direct sunlight.

It's hosting a pair of Onyx. Would it be better to remove the clowns and let this guy try to struggle back.

Temp 77-79
Salinity 1.026
PH ? I need to get my AC3 upstairs to test it.
Am 0
NO2 0
NO3 10ish
Mg 1300

 

[Airwolf75]

I can tell you it takes them months sometimes to get used to different bulbs. That looks bad, but I've had one get chopped up into 3 pieces in a powerhead before and all 3 pieces survived.

 

[broke1]

I know he looks bad. I'm just hoping the high salinity and higher Kelvin bulb didn't to any damage that it will never recover from. I think the clowns need to be removed as the little bit of food I actually get to stick to the anemone gets stolen by the female.

 

[Airwolf75]

That's a good idea. It can recover, no permanant damage has been done.

 

[taylor t]

I took a green one that looked that bad before. It took a few months to improve, but did. I've never let my salinity get that high with them before, so, I don't know.
I noticed the spectrum also. 20K didn't work very well with my BTA either. 10K perked them up also. Mine was a slow steady decline/lack of growth over a couple months maybe. Switched bulbs to an old 10K, perked right up. I found it rather interesting myself...

 

[broke1]

I would assume the fact it moved up would be the lack of PAR from the 20K bulb. At the time I thought it was to avoid the flow from the powerhead since he parked behind it. I guess the first thing would be to remove the clowns. Then I guess I'll keep trying to feed it and give it some time. I would assume nobody has an answer for the salinity. Unfortunately this is now an unskimmed tank that I just do small water changes on every other day. Which mixed at 1.031 probably had insanely high ALK and Calcium levels.

 

[broke1]

I actually thought this guy had died and the CUC had made a meal out of him. I transfered a bunch of rock when I set up my new tank and found this guy living on the bottom of a rock. He looks OK and regained a little of it's green in the tips. How long does it take these guys to bounce back, and why is it "under" a rock?