GBTA Standing

[FishNutty]

Any idea what would cause a BTA to do this-

It's been in the tank since Friday, a nano with LEDs. The only fish is a clown and only dose iodine.
It ate mysis Saturday and the foot was very sticky, it seems very healthy to me, but this seemed kind of odd.
This was Sunday-

 

[cichlidconvert]

It looks like it was filling up with fresh water. They do that from time to time. IMO

 

[FishNutty]

It looks like it was filling up with fresh water. They do that from time to time. IMO

Thanks. I'm hovering a little; it's my second, after the first was basically DOA from shipping, then it pulled back, looked fine-ish..and died anyway. This one I got semi-local(3 hour drive), and it's kinda like a first child-I'm trying to bandage every scratch and keep it from eating ALL the dirt

 

[worm5406]

They will purge a few times and look lifeless. Good flow helps keep them motivated and cycling.

Sometimes after a good feeding, and it is digested and ingested, it will deflate to push out all the bad fluids.

Looks real good though!!

 

[sjwitt]

Mine do that all the time. They will stretch out after eating or when current is on low and they reach up to the light.

 

[Daniel62]

Why are you dosing iodine? Also how many leds?

 

[FishNutty]

Why are you dosing iodine? Also how many leds?

One 50/50 white:blue and one all blue LED strip for a total of eight. I've kept LPS, rock flower and maxi mini nems with them with no problems.
The iodine is for the Xenia I just got(and which is currently refusing to pulse. Go figure.) One drop daily.

The current shenanigans-

This is a during the day thing, at night it hunkers down. It also decided to walk today.
It's getting plenty of flow, the rock is directly under the filter return and even when it's 'seated' so-to-speak, the tentacles look like they're in a stiff breeze.
I haven't fed again in case that's what triggered it.

 

[worm5406]

Looks like a polyp when it is not getting enough light. Reaching for the light.

 

[worm5406]

What is your % and light type again?? What is running during most of the day?

 

[FishNutty]

What is your % and light type again?? What is running during most of the day?

I was kind if thinking the same thing(stretching for light) when it happened multiple days.

3:1 blue/white ratio LEDs that I run probably twelve hours a day. I do have one other all blue strip I could add on, I hadn't put it on this tank because I felt like it was a little *too* blue, but if the general consensus the nem needs it, then I'll track down some 3m tape/sticky strips tomorrow and try it.

 

[worm5406]

How about some more WHITE???

 

[Rippinfrags]

Yup I agree your going to need more white leds. Your anemone looks to be suffering from a lack of light.

 

[sjwitt]

I agree with the need for additional white light and caution about adding iodine. Are you testing your iodine levels? You shouldn't add anything without testing first, and iodine is nothing to play around with. It does not dissapate as quickly as some trace elements might and there is a very specific level (.06) that you should not exceed. Adding a "drop a day" to a Nano tank is probably not a good idea. Some people never add iodine ... assuming you do regular water changes you shouldn't need to add iodine at all.

 

[FishNutty]

How about some more WHITE???

Yup I agree your going to need more white leds. Your anemone looks to be suffering from a lack of light.

I agree with the need for additional white light and caution about adding iodine. Are you testing your iodine levels? You shouldn't add anything without testing first, and iodine is nothing to play around with. It does not dissapate as quickly as some trace elements might and there is a very specific level (.06) that you should not exceed. Adding a "drop a day" to a Nano tank is probably not a good idea. Some people never add iodine ... assuming you do regular water changes you shouldn't need to add iodine at all.

Thanks for helping me figure it out!
Heard, and efforts are being made. I just finished HS, and am headed to college in the fall, so funds are tight; I'm trying to sell the actinic that I have/don't have on the tank(hopefully easy, as it's still in the box!) to fund a white/blue strip. In the meantime, the nem has jumped to the glass, closer to the light and looks happier...should I feed to give it additional nutrients while I'm working on the light?


I'll take a water sample into the LFS and have them take a look at the iodine; the LPS seem to be appreciating it though, they've been fluffier since I started and have shown growth after stalling out, both a torch and a frogspawn that had split and then stuck semi-attached at the base and also a hammer that previously split all the time and hadn't in awhile is starting the process again.

 

[psusocr]

I don't know if I missed this but Ratio , although important wouldn't be my first concern.. what type of leds?? how many watts more importantly?? huge difference if he only has 30 watts compare to 400 watts of LED lighting.

The color on the nem looks fine right now, so it must be strong enough unless it starts to bleach over time..

 

[FishNutty]

I don't know if I missed this but Ratio , although important wouldn't be my first concern.. what type of leds?? how many watts more importantly?? huge difference if he only has 30 watts compare to 400 watts of LED lighting.

The color on the nem looks fine right now, so it must be strong enough unless it starts to bleach over time..

She has Current USA TrueLumen 10" LED strips-link. 1 50/50, 1 all blue and a extra all blue that isn't and have never been on this tank.

 

[psusocr]

She has Current USA TrueLumen 10" LED strips-link. 1 50/50, 1 all blue and a extra all blue that isn't and have never been on this tank.

oh wow, that doesn't look like enough lighting for ANY coral let alone an anemone...in that case that's why its reaching out like that... it needs light!

 

[FishNutty]

oh wow, that doesn't look like enough lighting for ANY coral let alone an anemone...in that case that's why its reaching out like that... it needs light!

I was having a lighting crisis when they were chosen, in less than six hours(normally I'd take weeks at a decision like that!), and I was kind of worried the first few months once I realized they weren't as high-powered as the not-so-local-LFS guy led me to believe, but everything has done really well with them, and the things that haven't, it's been other issues that have killed them off. I've had branching hammer and frogspawn that's needed constant fragging from growth, and the same with palys and colt coral in my previous tank these were on. And the other nems that were in this tank also did fine, although I realize BTAs need more light than RFAs.

I'm kind of wondering now though, instead of getting another of the same, could I a) plug one of the 12" inch Pro TrueLumen 50/50 strips into the third space on the adapter, or b) would one 50/50 Pro strip and one actinic Pro strip be enough since they're higher powered?

More info on the Pro strips.

 

[psusocr]

Im not sure how much these thing costs, but why don't you just get one reefbreeders LED, they are only $172.. It looks as if the lights you have are only around 10 watts.. im not sure how anything can grow well under less than 30 or soo watts of leds..

 

[FishNutty]

Im not sure how much these thing costs, but why don't you just get one reefbreeders LED, they are only $172.. It looks as if the lights you have are only around 10 watts.. im not sure how anything can grow well under less than 30 or soo watts of leds..

The 10" are $50 full price, the Pro strips go for $80 full price but I'm seeing them for between $40-60 right now. If I did two Pro strips it would be $100. I try really hard to 'recycle' money from the tank(ie, make money from selling frags to buy more frags, use the money from selling the actinic strip to buy a more white balanced strip) since I've got college coming up, so I think those other fixtures are probably a little out of my price-point.