Gbta Deflated! Please Help!!

[Mel-E-Mel]

PLEASE HELP ME!! Just the other day my GBTA was bubbled up and looking healthy. I have a 55 gallon and on saturday i did my routine weekly 10 gallon water change. Before i did my water change it looked like this.

today, it looks like this!!

tank parameters:

nitrite: 0
nitrate: 20ppm
ph: 8.0
calcium: 420
salinity: 1.022
temp: 79 - 82

is this normal?? someone please help me! what am i doing wrong? tank has been up 9 months and is stable. everything else doin fine except my gbta and i would really like this anemone to make it!!

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

also, i added maybe 10 pounds or less of cured lr this weekend. can this be a cause of it aswel? any feed back is apreciated.

thanks in advance.

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

anyone?

 

[eeorrandy]

It's perfectly normal for it to deflate from time to time... sometimes every day. It replenishes it's own water chemistry as well as expelling waste.

The live rock, of course may start an ammonia cycle, so you should watch your parameters and do a WC if needed but otherwise he should be fine.

 

[Mel-E-Mel]

thanks eeorrandy! it just gained its bubbles back earlier today!! WOOHOO!!!

 

[boyooso]

rommelgin,

Have seen

www.karensroseanemones.com/

If you haven't you should.

Corey