Nem Help Please

[gjgordon]

Hey all

I love the advice I get on th site so I thought I would ask....my tank has been up for 14 months now, all parameters are good so I decided to ge a nem....bad idea...so frustrating. Put it in about a month and a half ago and it looked great....cruised around the tank for about 3 weeks an finally settled and hasn't moved in about 3 weeks now. Been feeding it daily with either brine shrimp of hunks of salmon. It ha been about two weeks since I started this an it hasn't gotten any better or any worst....suggestions? I have 165W LEDS that are set at about 50 white and 75 blue. Please help, I want this sucker to live.

 

[F.Q. Schwartz]

Water parameters?, lighting? flow?

 

[gjgordon]

Tons of flow.... very bright LED...165W...0 nitrates, 0 ammonia, 0 nitrates and PH of 8.2.

 

[4runner]

I have 165W LEDS that are set at about 50 white and 75 blue. Please help, I want this sucker to live.

Did you start it out at 75b/50w? I started mine at 15b/15w (also 165W LEDs), and have been slowly ramping it up. Mine's currently at 30b/25w and has been doing well so far. My fixture is 6.5 inches from the water, and 22.5 inches away from the column of the anemone. I've been turning it up 5% every other day, and keeping an eye on it.

Here's how it looks like right now at 30b/25w:

 

[nemmy]

Looks sunburt to me. Turn the lights down and light acclimate it like 4runner did.

 

[joshbrookkate]

Stable ALK is a must, too.

 

[OrionN]

You have a BTA which does not want too much light. They dont taek that much current either. More like LPS condition.
You should not feed anemone daily. Feed them at the most every 3rd or 4th days. Anemone is mostly water, Biomass of an anemone is much smaller that a fish of the same size.

 

[taylor t]

. Put it in about a month and a half ago and it looked great.....

Picture of it looking great?

FTS please?

More details needed for any sort of helpful advice, lack of details is anyone's guess. Parameters with numbers (I can't seem to find "all parameters are good" on my test kit) and husbandry schedule.


As long as your BTA doesn't start going downhill, I would think it should recover, but will take a long, long, long time to get back to it's former glory. You may learn patience through this:hmm4:. If it's going downhill, change needs to happen, and what that change is depends on too many other factors. I had one just like that recover years ago, yours looks savable.

 

[gjgordon]

Thanks for all the helpful advice...I have turned the lights down as reccommended...my only fear is that my other corals will suffer from lack of light as they were all doing very well with the old light regime. I will keep you posted.

 

[taylor t]

Thanks for all the helpful advice...I have turned the lights down as reccommended...my only fear is that my other corals will suffer from lack of light as they were all doing very well with the old light regime. I will keep you posted.

I may be wrong, but I'm going against the grain here. 165 watt LED means nothing. More to LED lights than watts. Fixture details, how high off water, etc... I've had BTA that look like yours, IMO, turning down the lights may not be the only move. Lack of details will get you poor advice. To start, you don't tell us the basic 3, mag, calcium, KH. Best of luck to you.

 

[OrionN]

Change pH quickly like in adding Kalk or Bicarb part of the two part additive too quick will cause a lot of problem for your anemone, and will stress them a lot.

 

[truffle22]

I hope ur anemone recovers. I got one from a frag swap a ball size of a penny and he is still doing good every though Iv had my tank set up for only 5 months and I'm still playing with supplements. Maybe the anenime way sick or weak immune system. Other then that yes I'd say lights it does look burnt. Maybe try to place the rock he is on on the shade?? Just a thought


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[gjgordon]

Change pH quickly like in adding Kalk or Bicarb part of the two part additive too quick will cause a lot of problem for your anemone, and will stress them a lot.

OrionN, how do you mean? Should I be adding Kalk or leaving the PH exactly as is? You seem very experience in the NEM keeping world and would love to chit chat with you about the fundamentals to success....I was thinking that I as I am having no problems keeping both LPS and SPS that maybe my water quality was good for a nem....maybe I was wrong.

Any advice? I have turned my led down to 25% white and 35% Blue to see if that makes a difference....hopefully this does not affect my LPS and SPS too badly...what challenge these creatures are

 

[OrionN]

I don't check pH. Not an accurate test unless you really spend a lot of effort. What I mean is when you add bicarbonate add it slow. Add Kalk even slower. Drip slow with Kalk or else the pH shift increase too much and stress the animals. I have seen reefer mix bicarbonate and just dump it in the tank. Other reefer just dump solid bicarbonate into the overflow box.

Just need common sense but I think we need sense before we have common sense

 

[gjgordon]

I have never added Kalk or anything elso for that matter only weekly 10 percent water changes

 

[gjgordon]

Well, my nem finally met his maker.....very sad....i think I am going to give up on keep them for awhile. My tank has been up and running for a little over a year and I have lost no livestock to date....i think I will wait until I upgrade to a system with a sump and higher water volume before I ever try again...thanks for all your help folks.

 

[OrionN]

Anemones are difficult to keep, even BTA. Once you can keep a thriving reef tank, then you can attempt to keep anemones. They are beautiful and rewarding to keep. Best of luck

 

[gjgordon]

Thank you