jcuervo962002
New member
Let me preface this by saying this is my first reef, its up about 11 weeks.
I have a 50 gallon cube, with T5's and appx 70 lbs of live rock. I test water regularly, took water to be tested this weekend at LFS and it checked out fine. Light is on about 9.5 hrs per day. My tank has 2 false percula clowns, 2 green chromis, a stripe blenny, a strawberry basslet, 3 emerald crabs, a blood shrimp, a condy, a banded starfish, some small frogspawn and button polyps, and 8 snails. 18 gallon sump with protein skimmer, temp is 77 and salt/gravity is 1.024. PH is at 8.2, KH is 9-10. Nitrates, nitrites, ammonia are all clear. All livestock seems to be pretty happy, no one overly aggressive or picking on anything.
I have a Rose Bubble Tip Anemone that I bought about a month ago. I am concerned that I let the anemone pick its own place in the tank, and it seems to have settled in an area that is facing downward, away from the light. It moved around the first day or so, and and settled in this spot. What I think might be related is the behavior that it is closed more often than open. It opens up, but never as open as it was when I first purchased it. I would say on a normal day it is open at like 75% capacity for about 4 hrs during the lighting and closed or partially opened at like 25-40% for the rest, including overnight. It eats when I feed it with the turkey baster a couple of times a week- frozen mysis or cyclopese.
My Condy on the other hand picked a spot in the light and is thriving, wide open all the time.
Is this normal behavior for my rose, or is my concern just a newbie being a newbie?
Should I move it, or anything specific that I should look for ?
I have a 50 gallon cube, with T5's and appx 70 lbs of live rock. I test water regularly, took water to be tested this weekend at LFS and it checked out fine. Light is on about 9.5 hrs per day. My tank has 2 false percula clowns, 2 green chromis, a stripe blenny, a strawberry basslet, 3 emerald crabs, a blood shrimp, a condy, a banded starfish, some small frogspawn and button polyps, and 8 snails. 18 gallon sump with protein skimmer, temp is 77 and salt/gravity is 1.024. PH is at 8.2, KH is 9-10. Nitrates, nitrites, ammonia are all clear. All livestock seems to be pretty happy, no one overly aggressive or picking on anything.
I have a Rose Bubble Tip Anemone that I bought about a month ago. I am concerned that I let the anemone pick its own place in the tank, and it seems to have settled in an area that is facing downward, away from the light. It moved around the first day or so, and and settled in this spot. What I think might be related is the behavior that it is closed more often than open. It opens up, but never as open as it was when I first purchased it. I would say on a normal day it is open at like 75% capacity for about 4 hrs during the lighting and closed or partially opened at like 25-40% for the rest, including overnight. It eats when I feed it with the turkey baster a couple of times a week- frozen mysis or cyclopese.
My Condy on the other hand picked a spot in the light and is thriving, wide open all the time.
Is this normal behavior for my rose, or is my concern just a newbie being a newbie?
Should I move it, or anything specific that I should look for ?