Rapide
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In the past few weeks almost all of my carpet anemones have lost some of their colour. The only one that hasn't is my oldest one, the white striped green haddoni. The blue haddoni has had some colour loss, and the bright, almost neon green "mint" haddoni has turned into light green - almost bleached looking. Yesterday it attached it's foot on a rock and out of the sand.
The S. tapetums haven't actually lost their colour, but turned brighter, almost fluorescent. Also a mystery anemone that I got from another tank has slowly turned bright white. It used to be light lavender with purplish tips.
Quadricolors and Phymanthus are doing great!
There has not been any radical changes. The lighting is the same, and everything is in order. The only thing that has changed lately is the PO4 and NO3 levels. The NO3 used to be really high, over 100mg/l and has slowly dropped to ~20mg/l during the last 3-4 months. The PO4 seems to be under detectable levels, but I'd say that it's something like 0,05mg/l because I have large fish and feed a lot so there must be some.
Alk. 8°dKH, pH 8,22 - 8,31, calcium has always been high, NH3 & NH4 are 0. Magnesium has been a bit low always because of the high Ca. That will change soon.
Could the reason be my ATS? Maybe the algae sucks all the amino acids?
I use the Balling method for dosing (CaCl2, NaHCO3 and NaCl free salt) + iodine, Tropic Marin A&K elements (20ml/day).
All in all everything is fine... One change is that I added more water flow, but this wasn't untill recently.
I'll do a 118 gallon water change today and see if it does anything...
The S. tapetums haven't actually lost their colour, but turned brighter, almost fluorescent. Also a mystery anemone that I got from another tank has slowly turned bright white. It used to be light lavender with purplish tips.
Quadricolors and Phymanthus are doing great!
There has not been any radical changes. The lighting is the same, and everything is in order. The only thing that has changed lately is the PO4 and NO3 levels. The NO3 used to be really high, over 100mg/l and has slowly dropped to ~20mg/l during the last 3-4 months. The PO4 seems to be under detectable levels, but I'd say that it's something like 0,05mg/l because I have large fish and feed a lot so there must be some.
Alk. 8°dKH, pH 8,22 - 8,31, calcium has always been high, NH3 & NH4 are 0. Magnesium has been a bit low always because of the high Ca. That will change soon.
Could the reason be my ATS? Maybe the algae sucks all the amino acids?
I use the Balling method for dosing (CaCl2, NaHCO3 and NaCl free salt) + iodine, Tropic Marin A&K elements (20ml/day).
All in all everything is fine... One change is that I added more water flow, but this wasn't untill recently.
I'll do a 118 gallon water change today and see if it does anything...