What's wrong with my rbta

[ratienza80]

Sorry for the actinic light, but I noticed my rbta's tentacles are looking really weird lately. Parameters stable alk 8.4, cal 420, mg 1240. No3 0.5, po4 0.26. I don't notice anything bothering it and it does eat krill when I feed it. Everything else looks good in the tank ( corals and h. Magnifica).

Any ideas?

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I would stop feeding krill and feed mysis instead, they're easier to digest. I've had problems with my BTAs tentacles doing something similar and it was due to nitrates. The tentacles had very weird shapes and generally looked like crap! I wouldn't believe my nitrates were as high as they actually were but due to faulty test kit (was very old) and my stupid mistake for trusting an old kit this happened. What is your procedure for doing a nitrate test and what kit or method do you use?

 

[Jp_esp]

Whats your light set up and schedule? I had the same problem and could not figure out what happened. My Nitrates were 0 and still went.

 

[dgbandog]

I'm having the exact same problem

 

[regtur]

I agree with dkuhlmann I buy cocktail shrimp frozen, and when my wife ain't looking a guppy once in awhile we have a rose tip that's about 10 to 12inchs across and two large clowns that get snippy at feeding time they have been known to knock food out with their tails lol

 

[nemmy]

Looks like its either getting too much light or not enough.

 

[ratienza80]

I use the Red Sea nitrate test kit. I did notice a spike in green hair algae so I wonder if PO4 and NO3 are higher than what is tested.

I'll stop the krill and stick to mysis for this anemone.

Light schedule hasn't changed in 6 months (Hydra 26HD).