OK I am very worried, I got a very healthy rbta (about 2 years old and has spit multiple times) from a fellow reefer on Saturday.
My tank has been up for about year and is doing great. I started it with 100lbs of 3 year old live rock and have added about 60 more. I do about a 30% change with RO water every 2 weeks, I use a combo of RC and IO. The tank is a 72g bow front with 2*250 14k mh, and 2*96w CF. It has a closed loop doing about 1000 gph, and a return from the 60 g sump runs about 600 gph. I run 25w UV 12 hrs a day, and a lifereef 25 skimmer on a mag-12. I dose 1 cap of Idonie every other waterchange, and about 15 ml of part A + B each week.
This is my second Anemone. The first was a seba that never would attach to LR or sand (I think my reef grade sand was too coarse for it). It died after about 2 weeks. When the first one went I lost a large pink leather.
Well, I noticed Monday when direct feeding the RBTA some mysis shrimp, it looked sticky but did not really seem to feed. Then it moved around yesterday and was up high on the rocks underneath my overflow box, right next to (even touching) 3 huge 9" fuzzy yuma mushrooms. It appeared to be putting out a milky fluid when I feed the fish pellets. I thought it was normal. Tonight it looks sick the tentacles are very thin and twisted in places near the disk. the disk looks sort of brown. I tried to direct feed it some thawed clam and it did not take any, allowed a wrasse and skunk shrimp to take the food out of it, and put out more milky stuff. Then I looked around more and notice my green neon tip toad stool was fully in and my other leather had pulled in all it's polips (they are on the other side of the tank).
My salt is 1.23-1.24, temp 78.6, ph 8.2. I pulled out the test kit for more test, camera, and carbon. I wanted to post right away. I am going to start by putting a couple of cups of fresh carbon in a bag in the sump, and will try to post pictures. What tests should I run first on the tank? Should I pull it will try to p
to protect the rest of the tank?
My tank has been up for about year and is doing great. I started it with 100lbs of 3 year old live rock and have added about 60 more. I do about a 30% change with RO water every 2 weeks, I use a combo of RC and IO. The tank is a 72g bow front with 2*250 14k mh, and 2*96w CF. It has a closed loop doing about 1000 gph, and a return from the 60 g sump runs about 600 gph. I run 25w UV 12 hrs a day, and a lifereef 25 skimmer on a mag-12. I dose 1 cap of Idonie every other waterchange, and about 15 ml of part A + B each week.
This is my second Anemone. The first was a seba that never would attach to LR or sand (I think my reef grade sand was too coarse for it). It died after about 2 weeks. When the first one went I lost a large pink leather.
Well, I noticed Monday when direct feeding the RBTA some mysis shrimp, it looked sticky but did not really seem to feed. Then it moved around yesterday and was up high on the rocks underneath my overflow box, right next to (even touching) 3 huge 9" fuzzy yuma mushrooms. It appeared to be putting out a milky fluid when I feed the fish pellets. I thought it was normal. Tonight it looks sick the tentacles are very thin and twisted in places near the disk. the disk looks sort of brown. I tried to direct feed it some thawed clam and it did not take any, allowed a wrasse and skunk shrimp to take the food out of it, and put out more milky stuff. Then I looked around more and notice my green neon tip toad stool was fully in and my other leather had pulled in all it's polips (they are on the other side of the tank).
My salt is 1.23-1.24, temp 78.6, ph 8.2. I pulled out the test kit for more test, camera, and carbon. I wanted to post right away. I am going to start by putting a couple of cups of fresh carbon in a bag in the sump, and will try to post pictures. What tests should I run first on the tank? Should I pull it will try to p
to protect the rest of the tank?
