Haddoni climbing out of the sand up the rockwork.

hotelbravo

hotelbravo

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I have had this Haddoni for almost 5 months now, it has never moved but all of a sudden it has unburied it's foot and is now climbing the rockwork right now
The lighting I have are OR T247 x3 and I have them at about 30% any higher and things start to bleach.
Nitrates and phosphates are to low to register and salinity is stable at 1.025
 
The only recent changes were that the 2 year old clown fish FINALLY decided to show the anemone some love.
The sand is 5 inches maybe more in the area he was at
 
Not familiar w/ the lights you have or PAR at that depth it needs, haddoni is pretty light hungry, any sand dwellar that climbs rock and moves upward I would suspect wants more light than it is receiving.
 
Many LEDs are pretty powerful right off the bulb, but lose PAR at depth, at that low setting you could have plenty of PAR value high up, but maybe not penetrating at depth, maybe, just my guess, but I'd hate to hear you cooked your high up sps, perhaps try shading areas w/ screen and increase light just to see what happens
 
Also"¦haddonis really hate stuff getting on their foot. Mine moved up the other day and I found there was a small seastar climbing on its foot. I removed the star to another tank and it settled down and opened again. Small creatures like worms can cause irrigation to haddonis too.

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Agree, one of my haddonis do not like to be tickled by other items on its foot.
 
Yeah good point, I do recall one of my malu's bothered and I found huge, like 2 foot long bristle worms crawling under it, trapped them and the malu seemed better later, though mine didn't travel it clearly showed signs of stress, so yeah, possibility.
 
The PAR conversion said 280 at 24 inches of depth of hung 10" over the water. I'm not sure if 280 is terrible or good.
 
IME Haddoni move when they are not happy. If it is not light or current it is the water quality. In the past when I am not compulsive in doing water change mine move when I am lazy and not change water. Nitrates is not a problem in my tank. Nitrates is alway 0 but the micro nutrients likely is a problem in my case. Water change frequently take care of this problem for me.
 
Well I did a 50 gallon water change yesterday and this morning he is still inching further on the rocks and looking shriveled. I tried feeding but he wasn't sticky and so the food did not stay. I'm getting more and more concerned now as I've had him for a while and havent seen him doing bad at all until now
 
Water change will slowly correct the problem but the anemone will only slowly getting better. Just cross your finger,do more water change and wait.
 
hotelbravo said:
Well I did a 50 gallon water change yesterday and this morning he is still inching further on the rocks and looking shriveled. I tried feeding but he wasn't sticky and so the food did not stay. I'm getting more and more concerned now as I've had him for a while and havent seen him doing bad at all until now
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What are you feeding?
 
My parameters are
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0.01
Salinity 1.025
Temp 79

I think I'm going to pull him out. He has taken a drastic turn and looks like he is melting away. Idk how this happened so quickly.
 
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