ClownFishGuy6
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Someone please help? Is he dying? How do I stop it from dying
https://gyazo.com/53b3d613128c5cd5216916b9c90b6e9c
https://gyazo.com/53b3d613128c5cd5216916b9c90b6e9c
Help anemone please!!!
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jeremyaucoin
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from the cropped picture it seems like a newly setup tank thats not very established?
75mixedreef
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Try feeding it and doing a 20% water change, more if it is a smaller tank. Nems like good flow but not to be blasted. Can't tell the flow from the picture but the tentacles should get enough flow to be pushed around but not so much to be blasted against the rocks.
What lights do you have? Half the nem looks bleached and the other half looks brown so your lightning might not be significant enough. Remember that you need to have lighting sufficient for SPS to keep a nem.
From the picture, I would suspect that it could be low flow, low light, or something unfavorable in the water like nitrates, phosphates, coral warfare, or ammonia. So check your lights, flow and do a large water change. It is possible that it is low nutrients but it is not likely and feeding the nem directly would help with that as well.
What lights do you have? Half the nem looks bleached and the other half looks brown so your lightning might not be significant enough. Remember that you need to have lighting sufficient for SPS to keep a nem.
From the picture, I would suspect that it could be low flow, low light, or something unfavorable in the water like nitrates, phosphates, coral warfare, or ammonia. So check your lights, flow and do a large water change. It is possible that it is low nutrients but it is not likely and feeding the nem directly would help with that as well.
ClownFishGuy6
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Salinity: 1.020
Temp:78 degrees
This may seem dumb but I don't know how to check the alkalinity.
This is not s newly established tank. It's about 3 years old
Temp:78 degrees
This may seem dumb but I don't know how to check the alkalinity.
This is not s newly established tank. It's about 3 years old
nereefpat
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Salinity needs to be 1.025-1.028.
There are test kits for alk.
What is your lighting?
ClownFishGuy6
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I just added some more salt the lights are LED's
Added salt water, I hope, and do it real slowly, as in a fraction of a cup every 15 minutes. Don't let undissolved crystals float about: they can burn tissue.
Get salifert test for alkalinity.
You might also take a vial of your water to the store and ask them to test it. My fear is that you've added this nem to a fairly new tank.
Understand that when corals/nems are somewhat unhappy, they expel water and shrivel until conditions of the water improve; but the fact that this one is sort of expanded and limp hints that it's having trouble doing that, possibly (I'm guessing) because its internal salinity is higher than the surrounding water. Make changes gradually so that it can adjust. Especially rises in salinity should be done slowly to avoid tissue damage.
Get salifert test for alkalinity.
You might also take a vial of your water to the store and ask them to test it. My fear is that you've added this nem to a fairly new tank.
Understand that when corals/nems are somewhat unhappy, they expel water and shrivel until conditions of the water improve; but the fact that this one is sort of expanded and limp hints that it's having trouble doing that, possibly (I'm guessing) because its internal salinity is higher than the surrounding water. Make changes gradually so that it can adjust. Especially rises in salinity should be done slowly to avoid tissue damage.
ClownFishGuy6
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Yes I'm doing it slowly. And yes it's going in as saltwater. This tank is not new at all
ru4serious
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You said your lights are LED's are these the 1 watt strip lights.if so they're not strong enough for a nem.
ClownFishGuy6
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No they're not 1 watt I think The whole light is 56 watts
ClownFishGuy6
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When I get home I'll put a full picture of the whole tank so you can see
75mixedreef
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I'm pretty certain that your lights are not enough for an anemone. 56W is not much at all, but it depends on the sixe of the tank and the light fixture. You want more powerful LEDs rather than just more LEDs. Less than 3W LEDs are not recommended for reef tanks, regardless of how many of them you have. It just gets to be impractical.
ClownFishGuy6
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2 days
ClownFishGuy6
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https://gyazo.com/a6c445dd0b46ca8e2f97525e776038a0 That's my tank but the anemone is very open now I think it was because the salinity was a little too low for it but I'll let you guys know if it happens again. Thanks!
75mixedreef
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I am still convinced that your lighting is way too low and you will have an issue with it again. Before it was acclimating so it just needed time. Lighting is a long term problem so in a couple weeks you are likely to have issues again.
I am still convinced that your lighting is way too low and you will have an issue with it again. Before it was acclimating so it just needed time. Lighting is a long term problem so in a couple weeks you are likely to have issues again.
ClownFishGuy6
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The nem is actually doing great! He closes up for a little bit during the day every day at the same time but just today I bought a fresh shrimp then I froze it and cut it into peices and fed him a peice and he ate it and it looked really cool because he normally eats brine shrimp but I found something more interesting to feed him.
