New Bubble Tip Anemone hides and splits after 2 weeks?

[Stevorino]

Hey All-

I bought a great Red Bubble-Tip anemone about 3 weeks ago and it arrived looking fantastic on March 17th. Fully Extended, it is about the size of my fist.

He has been sitting on a piece of rock looking great - flow looks good, lights look good, parameters have looked great across the board.

After about a week I fed him some frozen table shrimp and 3 days ago I fed him some frozen mysis shrimp/powdered coral foods. He had a hearty meal.

The day after I fed him, he went on the underside of the rock (it's a bridge, so essentially he's hanging upside down in the shade). A day or two after hiding, I noticed he has split and both parts are on the underside of the rock.

Timeline:

March 17th - Arrival
March 22nd - Light feed w/ table shrimp
March 29th - Feed with Frozen Mysis/Powdered goodies
March 30th - Hide
April 1st - Split

Should I be freaking out... happy .. sad? Both parts are staying under the rock for now and I am letting them be.

 

[REEFBUILDER1]

Hey All-

I bought a great Red Bubble-Tip anemone about 3 weeks ago and it arrived looking fantastic on March 17th. Fully Extended, it is about the size of my fist.

He has been sitting on a piece of rock looking great - flow looks good, lights look good, parameters have looked great across the board.

After about a week I fed him some frozen table shrimp and 3 days ago I fed him some frozen mysis shrimp/powdered coral foods. He had a hearty meal.

The day after I fed him, he went on the underside of the rock (it's a bridge, so essentially he's hanging upside down in the shade). A day or two after hiding, I noticed he has split and both parts are on the underside of the rock.

Timeline:

March 17th - Arrival
March 22nd - Light feed w/ table shrimp
March 29th - Feed with Frozen Mysis/Powdered goodies
March 30th - Hide
April 1st - Split

Should I be freaking out... happy .. sad? Both parts are staying under the rock for now and I am letting them be.

Can you list Your "Good" Parameters
Phosphates and nitrates is what i care about

 

[addictedreefer]

Can you list Your "Good" Parameters
Phosphates and nitrates is what i care about

Also need temp, salinity, ph, alk and ammonia

 

[Stevorino]

Think I found the problem: Alk = 7.0

Everything else is in line

Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 2 (Red Sea)
Phos - undetectable using API
pH - 8.2 (varies throughout day but looks good on APEX)
Salinity - 1.026
Temp - 79.3

I was playing with APEX a week or so ago and plugged the Alk Doser into wrong port... and here we are. I'm going to slowly bring it back up over the course of a week... am I correct in assuming that the RBTA should will do okay in that transition back to 9-10 range?

 

[addictedreefer]

Alk of 7 is fine, as long as it is stable. If it dropped quickly from 9 or 10, that could have stressed the nem. If you want your alk higher, just be sure to bring it up slowly.

 

[Stevorino]

My guess is that it has gradually fallen from 9-10 over the course of 2 weeks. I'd imagine a 2 point drop is still pretty significant though.

Are you suggesting that Alk isn't necessarily the reason it split? I'd love to think that it split for a good/indifferent reason

 

[CoralsAddiction]

I believe D-Nak had a Mag split in QT.

 

[REEFBUILDER1]

Also need temp, salinity, ph, alk and ammonia

I think its realy rare for an established aquarium to have ammonia

 

[addictedreefer]

I think its realy rare for an established aquarium to have ammonia

You'd be surprised what you run into here. Just check some of the recent "is my anemone dying" threads. What may seem elementary to your or me is not so for many others.

 

[REEFBUILDER1]

You'd be surprised what you run into here. Just check some of the recent "is my anemone dying" threads. What may seem elementary to your or me is not so for many others.

Lol true

 

[OrionN]

This is a big site. There are all level of reefers here from thinking of a tank to established tank 30+ years